IRC Troubleshooter - Unable to Resolve IRC Server

If you can't get mIRC connected to one particular IRC server and you get this error you should first give another server a try. The most common reasons that you can't connect to a server are (1) it's a private server (2) no more connections are available on that server (3) the server is down. Try several other servers and see if you can get connected. If you can connect to some other servers, you should check to see if perhaps you made a typo in the setup of the server address you could not get connected to (Go to File/Connect/Servers/Edit).

If you get this error with all IRC server addresses you try, it is very likely your providers DNS (Domain Name Server) is down, malfunctioning, or very slow, especially if mIRC previously worked flawlessly for you. Aside from waiting or giving your provider's helpdesk a phone call, you could bypass the need for the DNS lookup by specifying the IP Number in your server setup instead of the IP Address for every server.

mIRC needs a DNS to translate (resolve) the IRC servers' IP Address into an IP Number. For example, the IP Address irc.law.emory.edu resolves to the IP Number 170.140.50.195. Once you get mIRC back up and running, you can see the IP number of an IP Address by typing in the command "/dns irc.law.emory.com".