Symptoms TLS certificate warnings or connection failures on port 6697.

Cause Self-signed certificates not trusted by clients.

Fix

1. Accept self-signed certificate in IRC client
2. Or configure Let's Encrypt certificates (see Ergo documentation)
3. For testing, use port 6667 (plaintext)

Prevention Document that self-signed certificates are used and provide connection instructions.

Last updated: 2026-06-21