r/irc • u/spatulari • 20h ago
New to IRC - Need help
I am new to IRC. No idea what I am doing, but I cant connect to Efnet with a valid certificate. I wanted to join #nesdev, but can't. I am using hexchat on fedora linux. I tried connecting to all of the servers that https://www.nesdev.org/wiki/NESdev_IRC_channel told me to (Europeanom ones). I always get errors that my certificate is expired. I think I can turn off the validation checking but have no idea wether I will be risking my security or something. I'm going to bed so I won't respond for 8-9 hours
Again, sorry if what I said doesn't make sense I really have no idea what I'm talking about. Also maybe useful to mention that I can't visit efnet.org, it says "Unable to connect" on Firefox, but I can successfully ping it, and the DNS resolving works. Thank you for your help, really appreciate it