BNC4FREE

BNC4FREE is a non-profit organisation has specialised in providing Free IRC (Internet Relay Chat) Bouncers since August 2007!

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BNC4FREE will be migrating existing accounts between Sunday 7th June 2026 and Sunday 14th June 2026. More information and updates available at https://t.co/iiwPKYvDZe

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BNC4FREE will be closing shortly - Please see https://t.co/7z1Gsj85lP for further information. We will keep you updated over the coming days.

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You may have experienced issues relating to our SSL certificates today when trying to connect to our servers and issues where when reconnecting/connecting to a network that the ident shows as 'bnc4free'. We have immediately fixed this and are working on this issue.

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We have renewed our SSL certificates after being made aware that users were getting connection issues due to expired certificates yesterday, this was due to an auto-renewal error. Apologies for any inconvenience this has caused.

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Hey its 2025 and Happy New Year. I wanted to let you know of some upcoming changes this year. https://t.co/i3w3KmwbKg

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There is currently a bit of a backlog on processing requests and support emails at the moment. We endeavour to clear this backlog later today and over the weekend. Apologies for the inconvenience.

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Apologies for the brief downtime on our Apple server earlier today, this issue has now been resolved. We have investigated what has led to this issue and are taking steps to ensure this does not happen going forward.

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Hello all, we're still here and alive with 3 servers, see https://t.co/dhq7eMsr11 for how to request a bouncer from us. If you need support, please drop us a message on here or email [email protected]

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(3/3) If you have not requested a new account:
* You are now able to request a new account from us via any of the methods outlined on https://t.co/dhq7eMsr11
Once again we apologise for the lengthy downtime of our orange server and any inconvenience that this may have caused.

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(2/3) If you have already requested a new account on a new server:
* No action needs to be taken, we have adjusted things our end to ensure this does not flag as a duplicate and your account on the server you have been assigned to when you re-requested will remain

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(1/3) Hello, it's been a while. We apologise for the long downtime that our Orange server has had since February 2023. We have now brought back Orange in the form of a new server. As a result of this, all previous accounts on orange have been removed.

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Orange is experiencing some issues at the moment which appear DDoS related, the host has been contacted regarding this. We apologise for the inconvenience this is causing.

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There have been some networking issues with Orange over the last few hours, this has been investigated and appears to be resolved however it may take a while for your bouncer to be reconnected to the IRC network. Apologies for the inconvenience

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We understand that the Queen of England and the commonwealth passed away, announced a bit earlier today. Thoughts and prayers go out to not just our country, our royal family, but those that are the part of the commonwealth she was part of.

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We are aware that there have been some issues with connecting to the bouncer using SSL over the last few days, this has now been fixed and the issue rectified.

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The pear server has crashed unexpectedly, it has been restarted however there may be delays in being reconnected to IRC. Apologies for this.

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Orange has recently been restarted due to DDoS and other issues. If you are still having issues connecting, please let us know.

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Orange has recently been restarted, we apologise the inconvenience. If you are still having issues connecting, please let us know.

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Issues with Pear have now been resolved

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We have temporarily blocked all traffic to and from our pear server due to a fairly large DDoS attack. We will let you know when this has been lifted.