EFnet announced that the server (eris.Berkeley.EDU) that caused the original IRC network to split back in 1990 ("The Great Split") has rejoined the network. Because of this EFnet (Eris-Free Network) changed its name to "Eris Network", or ErisNet.
eris.Berkeley.EDU is once again serving IRC clients (on ports 6667, 6668 or 6697, 9999 for SSL), thanks to UC Berkeley OCF.
See the news post about this change on http://www.erisnet.org/erisnet_pressrelease.pdf
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 02 2018, @03:47PM
My youngest son loves Eris. He named his cat for the goddess. I think he might name his daughter the same. Well, if he ever gets around to having a daughter. And, this is the smarter one of my sons, the mathematician. I've often wondered if he might know something important. Like, maybe he introduces random variables into his research, without telling anyone else about them? Or, worse, maybe Eris is really for real, and all the rest of us have worshipped the wrong gods for all these millenia?
Personally, I prefer the Norse version of the mischevious god. I can relate to Loki.