There are many different IRC networks. The largest are called Efnet, IRCnet and Undernet. Each of these networks has its own chat servers. Large chat networks tend to be slow, and loosely monitored, and they have chat areas which are unsafe or not intended for kids. There are also a few smaller, specialized IRC networks which try to cope with these problems.

The primary chat network we have selected for JOTI is ScoutLink. This is a special worldwide chat network run by Scouts for Scouts, with security-enforced servers. ScoutLink is considered to be very safe and the conversation on the channels is open, friendly and polite. Although you may find scouts and JOTI-dedicated channels on other chat networks and platforms, we recommend ScoutLink as the place to be in order to take part in this years JOTI. This will also be the only network where we will be officially present.

In the table below, you can find a list of all ScoutLink IRC servers. This list is being continually being kept up to date and expanded. Please also make a note of the servers IP number, in case the connection to your desired server does not work. You can type in both "/server au04.scoutlink.net" or "/server 203.29.98.200" to get connected.

Important note from ScoutLink:
The Clone limit on the ScoutLink Network is 25 pc's from 1 ip this year. If you are connecting with more pc's you have to mail joti@scoutlink.net with the ip you will be using during JOTI, your location e.g. UK, NL, CH etc and the number of pc's you will be using for connecting to the ScoutLink network.

Name of server	IP-Adresses	Ports
chat.scoutlink.net chat.am.scoutlink.net chat.au.scoutlink.net chat.eu.scoutlink.net chat.scand.scoutlink.net au01.scoutlink.net au04.scoutlink.net be01.scoutlink.net ch01.scoutlink.net ch02.scoutlink.net de01.scoutlink.net de03.scoutlink.net dk01.scoutlink.net dk02.scoutlink.net es01.scoutlink.net nl01.scoutlink.net nl02.scoutlink.net nl03.scoutlink.net nl04.scoutlink.net nl06.scoutlink.net no01.scoutlink.net se03.scoutlink.net si01.scoutlink.net uk01.scoutlink.net us01.scoutlink.net	Random Random Random Random Random 202.83.79.1 203.29.98.200 194.7.182.220 157.161.6.250 62.65.153.44 217.172.179.12 194.77.100.163 130.225.91.229 194.192.161.165 213.98.118.5 141.252.6.10 137.56.0.67 131.211.121.26 213.51.31.149 212.204.246.51 194.52.169.37 194.47.93.19 193.77.202.210 80.0.190.145 38.249.233.3	6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668 6666 - 6668
All server names are in the form "country number.scoutlink.net" Please check out their latest version on http://www.scoutlink.net/pages.php?show=webpagina&id=5&language=EN Random scoutlink servers are reachable via
chat.scoutlink.net	for all
chat.eu.scoutlink.net	for Europe
chat.am.scoutlink.net	for America
chat.au.scoutlink.net	for Australia
chat.scand.scoutlink.net	for Scandinavia
Connecting to one of these will return a random ip of a server in that part of the world. If one connects to chat.eu.scoutlink.net, they will randomly get an ip of a server somewhere in europe. All servers still are random available via chat.scoutlink.net Same for all *.scoutlink.org adresses DNS will be updated every time a server fails during joti, so all connects should return the IP of a working server A retry should work if a connect fails (will give out another IP number)

On http://www.scoutlink.net you will get
more answers concerning the following questions:

Which rules does exist on the network?

Who can help me if I have any complaints, questions or suggestions?

How do most of the regular guests on ScoutLink look like?

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