As I'm writing this, it has been 19 hours since my IRC suddenly disconnected me from OPU and stopped wanting to connect. Clearly, my usual "wait and hope it fixes itself" plan has failed (and its colony is probably doomed, but you never know).
So... any ideas? I've been able to talk to Arklon and Betaray (over Ham) who say they don't have connection problems.
Oh yes, I tried doing that /server 209.85.49.38 thing and it didn't help.