Demise of Google Hangouts?

[Eugene Grosbein]

07.11.2019 0:17, Phil Smith III wrote:

> Eugene Grosbein  wrote:
>> Why don't you use any free nearby IRC server?
> 
> That's an interesting idea. My first reaction was "I'm not sure my wife would like it", but I suppose thru Pidgin it won't "feel" any different to her. I'm certainly fine with IRC (I used The Relay on BITNET in the early 80s, from which IRC is evolved, so I have a wee bit of history there).
> 
> I will look into that! Any suggestions for a public server that seems stable (both in terms of RAS and not going away next week because someone changed jobs or whatever)?

$ host irc.freenode.net
irc.freenode.net is an alias for chat.freenode.net.
chat.freenode.net has address 204.225.96.251
chat.freenode.net has address 94.125.182.252
chat.freenode.net has address 149.56.134.238
chat.freenode.net has address 185.30.166.37
chat.freenode.net has address 38.229.70.22
chat.freenode.net has IPv6 address 2a00:1a28:1100:11::42
chat.freenode.net has IPv6 address 2a01:270:0:666f::1
chat.freenode.net has IPv6 address 2001:1bc0:c1::6667