It has come to my attention that the IRC machine is down and looks like there may be a network problem or that it needs a physical reboot.
In the meantime, we have setup a temporary IRC server which may be accessed using the following command (in mIRC at least, probably others as well):
/server outpost2.net:6666
Or tell your IRC client to connect to server: outpost2.net port: 6666.
Since it is a backup IRC server, there will be no services available.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and hope that we can get the main IRC server up and running again soon.
-- BlackBox