Don't try to round-robin as in
http://code.google.com/p/cia-vc/source/browse/trunk/cia/LibCIA/IRC/Network.py
The reason for this decision is that freenode, the most important
case, says its list of authoritative hosts is not stable and clients
should connect through chat.freenode.org.
Requires Python 2.6.
TO-DO: Is there any way to cope if servers drop connections?
-TO-DO: Round-robin as in http://code.google.com/p/cia-vc/source/browse/trunk/cia/LibCIA/IRC/Network.py
TO-DO: Register the port?
"""
# These things might need tuning