Due to a screw up most likely with our hosting provider they blocked our irc ports......

As it's sunday there isn't any support staff

So hopefully it will all be sorted in the morning

Strangely it isn't just the IRC ports that are blocked. I've tried setting up the server on other random ports but none work however http, ftp, smtp etc are all working fine. Traceroutes stop at v4-edge9-gw1.nyc1.globix.net so i'm guessing that router has a configuration error

Problem seems to have been solved

yup, it's deffo working