At the moment, the network supports unencrypted ("irc://") access to port 6667 and (for the sake of AS8758 passengers) 6666, but encrypted ("ircs://" aka IRC over SSL/TLS) access to port 6668 is being prepared by the Freeforge staff, and experimental SSL gateways are in place on some servers.
To chat with your friendly MirOS developer, get an IRC client, such as ports/net/sirc, irssi, xchat, telnet, netcat (but not mIRC) which is UTF-8 capable and connect it to one of the following servers:
You ought to connect to channel #mirbsd then.
The MirOS Project also maintains a web to IRC gateway XXX DOWN (without encryption – deprecated) which you can use from even most office locations to connect. It also offers encryption until the servers support ircs (IRC over SSL) on port 6668.
The Freeforge staff also manages an unencrypted webirc gateway at webirc.freeforge.net which behaves slightly less straight-forward but can be used in emergency cases or when the MirOS server is out of order.
Our services are offered with SSL validation as well; the X.509 certificates used are issued by the certification authority CAcert.org. If your operating system and/or web browser vendor does not include their root certificate by default, refer to their website for installation information.
Of course, if the certificate happens to be invalid,
usually by expiration date, drop the server owner an eMail.
For the server thor.66h.42h.de this would be root@, the webirc gateway
on mirsolutions.de is as well hosted there; for the other servers
and the Freeforge webirc gateway please refer to the Freeforge IRC
Network homepage for contact information.
The MirOS project, after staying on Openprojects/Freenode for a start and OFTC for a while, currently resides on the servers of a small IRC network called Freeforge, which uses ratbox-ircd, and also acts as a server sponsor for this network.
You should really register your user name with USERSERV and nickname with NICKSERV in order to be identifiable. Message them with the HELP command to get further information.