| | 1 | Title: Connecting to freenode |
| | 2 | Slug: chat |
| | 3 | --- |
| | 4 | The freenode network can be accessed via the [freenode webchat](//webchat.freenode.net) or using an IRC client such as irssi, WeeChat, ERC, HexChat, Smuxi, Quassel or mIRC. |
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| | 6 | You can connect to freenode by pointing your IRC client at `chat.freenode.net`. |
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| | 8 | ## Accessing freenode Via SSL |
| | 9 | freenode provides SSL client access on all servers, on ports 6697, 7000 and 7070. Users connecting over SSL will be given user mode +Z, and _is using a secure |
| | 10 | connection_ will appear in WHOIS (a 671 numeric). Webchat users will not currently appear with +Z or the 671 numeric, even if they connect to webchat via SSL. |
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| | 12 | In order to verify the server certificates on connection, some additional work may be required. First, ensure that your system has an up-to-date set of root CA |
| | 13 | certificates. On most linux distributions this will be in a package named something like ca-certificates. Many systems install these by default, but some (such |
| | 14 | as FreeBSD) do not. For FreeBSD, the package is named ca_root_nss, which will install the appropriate root certificates in /usr/local/share/certs/ca-root-nss.crt. |
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| | 16 | For most clients this should be sufficient. If not, you can download the required intermediate cert from [Gandi](http://crt.gandi.net/GandiStandardSSLCA.crt) |
| | 17 | and the root cert from [Instant SSL](http://www.instantssl.com/ssl-certificate-support/cert_installation/UTN-USERFirst-Hardware.crt). |
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| | 19 | Client SSL certificates are also supported, and may be used for identification to services via [CertFP](#XXX). If you have connected with a client certificate, _has client certificate fingerprint f1ecf46714198533cda14cccc76e5d7114be4195_ (showing |
| | 20 | your certificate's SHA1 fingerprint in place of _f1ecf46..._) will appear in WHOIS (a 276 numeric). |
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