Idlemonkeys is having some DNS problems.
You can use the IP address 216.179.62.162 until it works again.

Looks like it's fixed now.

Yea, yesterday i couldnt resolve irc.idlemonkeys.net for like 5 hours. I thought it was my ISP that sucks. I dont know whats the problem but sometimes it can resolve names (it gives me back the ip), but when I ping I get 100% packet lost. I cant connect to any web service, or irc service, but if I was connected to some irc server or messenger server before it gets screwed the connection keeps alive. weird.