There is someone running around and crashing servers. Nachos, Training, Viper, and JPL servers all just crashed sequentially, all had players on them at the time.
Player the_forums/showthread.php?t=925 has joined the game This bastard is crashing the servers. Presumably the url is crashing it.
I can confirm this, many servers are crashing repeatedly after a couple people join it. I'd bet its PCWizdan who received a hardcoded ban in 2.24. http://forums.empiresmod.com/showthread.php?t=9251
i saw him join the twice we crashed a link or url as name is all i could remember in a flash but i bet it was him