Any inactive accounts on all of our servers will be deleted during Saturday 7th December 2013. Your account will only be deleted if the following criteria is met:
- Your account has not been accessed for 60 days or more
- Your account was accepted more than 7 days ago and has never been accessed
- Your account is on DALNet, QuakeNet, Undernet, Rizon, EFNet, ICQ, Mindforge or Freenode and has not been used for 30 days
- Your account was suspended and you have not appealed it in the last 7 Days
These accounts will be deleted by 17:00 GMT+0 on Saturday 7th December 2013. If your account matches one of the above criteria, you will either need to login to avoid deletion or if in the event that your account is suspended, contact us on IRC to resolve the issue. Thanks.
Dear users,
We are pleased to introduce our two brand new staff members: fppe and Jordy!
Dynamic, friendly and extremely helpful. Three keywords that describe them perfectly.
Congratulations, welcome aboard!
The full staff list and their attributions can be seen here.
Would you like to be a BNC4FREE staff member? You can always apply here and you might have a chance to join our team!
Also, we value your feedback, so you can always send us some here.
Best regards,
BNC4FREE Management
Posted by Tarmac on September 14, 2013 at 6:11 pm
Any inactive accounts on all of our servers will be deleted during Sunsday 15th September 2013. Your account will only be deleted if the following criteria is met:
- Your account has not been accessed for 60 days or more
- Your account was accepted more than 7 days ago and has never been accessed
- Your account is on DALNet, QuakeNet, Undernet, Rizon, EFNet, ICQ, Mindforge or Freenode and has not been used for 30 days
- Your account was suspended and you have not appealed it in the last 7 Days
These accounts will be deleted by 17:00 GMT+0 on Sunday 15th September 2013. If your account matches one of the above criteria, you will either need to login to avoid deletion or if in the event that your account is suspended, contact us on IRC to resolve the issue. Thanks.
Dear users,
We are sorry to inform you that the GRNet IRC network has been suspended due to reaching the maximum IP session limit. Thus, requesting a BNC for this network is no longer possible until further notice. Accounts that are currently connected to GRNet will not be affected.
UPDATE 10.09.2013: UnderNet is now in the same situation and has been suspended as well.
Sorry for the inconveniences.
Regards,
BNC4FREE Staff Team
Posted by Tarmac on September 4, 2013 at 10:33 pm
As per our terms of service (which it has been for a while but people keep disregarding the rule) Open TOR’s and Proxies will soon be banned from the service. This may affect users who use proxies and TOR’s at work to get round restrictions. If you are affected by this TOR and Proxy ban, we advise you use Mibbit or WSIRC to connect to our bouncers. In the near future we will also be enabling a flash client on all our servers for you to use, but cannot guarantee that your internet service provider, specifically in educational establishments and work places, may not block it.
Please also note that if you run your own IP/Host specific or passworded VPN/Proxy, you will still be able to connect. The bans that we are enforcing only affect Open VPN’s and Proxies that require no password or accept any host and are often used for abuse.
It is likely this ban will be enforced Wednesday 21st August and will be enforced to prevent certain types of abuse that have been seen in recent weeks.
Dear BNC4Free Users,
We have found that one of our IP’s on Peach is currently not available, we have contacted the hosting company. We are currently waiting for their response. Please be patient while we try to fix these issues.
Kind regards,
BNC4Free Technical Team
Posted by Peter on August 9, 2013 at 1:32 am
Dear BNC4Free users,
We have decided to run a test with LightIRC, LightIRC is a web-based IRC Client. This web-based IRC Client is currently installed on our Peach server and can be reached by navigating to http://peach.bnc4free.com/. You click on ‘Connect’ and type “/PASS [USERNAME]:[PASSWORD]“. We are running this test to see if there is a substantial amount of people willing to use LightIRC and whether we should deploy it across all of our servers.
Kind regards,
BNC4Free Management
Posted by Peter on August 6, 2013 at 12:56 pm
Any inactive accounts on all of our servers will be deleted during Wednesday 17th May 2013. Your account will only be deleted if the following criteria is met:
- Your account has not been accessed for 60 days or more
- Your account was accepted more than 7 days ago and has never been accessed
- Your account is on QuakeNet, Undernet, Rizon, EFNet, Mindforge or Freenode and has not been used for 30 days
- Your account was suspended and you have not appealed it in the last 7 Days
These accounts will be deleted by 18:00 GMT+0 on Wednesday 17th May 2013. If your account matches one of the above criteria, you will either need to login to avoid deletion or if in the event that your account is suspended, contact us on IRC to resolve the issue.
Please note that accounts on Mango are unaffected at the moment due to the server being offline. Inactive and unused accounts will be deleted when our host resolved the issue and the server is back online.
Dear users,
The BNC4FREE bot is experiencing random downtime lately and its stability has become unreliable. Thus, creating a new request is not always possible, as the bot has to be online during that time.
New users: If you want to request a bouncer, please check if the BNC4FREE bot is online. Otherwise, please try again later.
Existing users: If you need staff support, you may also have to check if the bot is online first. You can still state your problem in the channel and wait until an operator replies. Unfortunately, changing IRC server, port and other account information while the bot is offline is not possible. In this case, you may also send an e-mail and we will make the change once the bot goes back online.
There is no ETA when this will be fixed, as the reason of the downtime is still unknown. We are sorry for the inconveniences.
More information coming soon.
Regards,
BNC4FREE Support Team
Posted by Tarmac on June 29, 2013 at 5:34 pm
Earlier this week Pear was having issues with outgoing connections and routing. A decision was made early on Sunday 23th June 2013 that the server needed to be re-installed in order to fix the issue. Before doing so, we checked that the remote backup we had was dated today/yesterday or at least within the last 24 hours, which it was. We then reinstalled Pear which did fix the networking and routing issues which had been causing problems most of the week.
Upon restoring the server backups, it was immediately noticeable that this in fact was not a recent backup even though the file had today’s date on it. It is unknown why the backup dated today had somehow backed up old files that do not even exist on the server any longer and haven’t done for over a month. There are now several concerns about why this wasn’t backed up properly in terms of security and whether the local backup file wasn’t being overwritten correctly. All servers are now being checked for this.
With regards to Pear, this unfortunately means that any account added after May 1st 2013 no longer exists on the server and any changes made after this date will have been reverted. Not only does this create great inconvenience for you but this also means our system is desynced and still thinks the accounts exist. This is likely to take quite an amount of time and it unfortunately will be necessary to re-request your bouncer if it was on Pear after May 1st 2013. We are aware that our system may tell you that your email has already been used to request since it still thinks the account exists at the moment. Everything on the system should be synced again by 18:00 GMT+0 on Sunday 23th June 2013.
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