Can't connect to irc

**Squid0x** · 20-10-2003, 04:31 PM

Just got an internet connection sorted at uni, and was merrily IRCing away, when I got randomly G-Lined :| Now when I try to connect I get:

* Connecting to uk.quakenet.org (6668)
-
-uk.quakenet.org- *** Looking up your hostname
-
-uk.quakenet.org- *** Checking Ident
-
-uk.quakenet.org- *** Couldn't look up your hostname
-
* Disconnected

Any ideas? I thought it might be the uni not allowing IRC use, but I was on for a good hour before I got kicked!
Help!

**Trash Man** · 20-10-2003, 04:51 PM

Looks like a firewall stopping it to me.

**Squid0x** · 20-10-2003, 04:54 PM

Can't see why, it worked for long enough, and I know other people in halls who have it working :|

**TooNice** · 20-10-2003, 04:55 PM

Yup...

I *think* that I had that problem with NAT as well (so it might also be a possibility).

**Trash Man** · 20-10-2003, 04:55 PM

You don't have the XP firewall on do you?

**Squid0x** · 20-10-2003, 04:56 PM

nope, win98

**Squid0x** · 20-10-2003, 05:22 PM

Bleh, too many users on the same IP I think. Need a trust thing for the uni :|

**Sibu** · 22-10-2003, 07:29 PM

should try living at my uni mate, every thing was working fine till they activated the firewall on friday. Now all i can do is surf the net and read emails. Wat fun

**Ethos** · 22-10-2003, 09:16 PM

Sibu if you have to use a http proxy to access the internet you could use a program like Socks2http which allows any program that supports a socks5 proxy to be tunneled through the http proxy! I used this all of last year for irc / ftp / kazaa and it works fine!

www.totalrc.net

**Squid0x** · 23-10-2003, 01:01 AM

I do live at uni XD!

**streetster** · 23-10-2003, 08:17 AM

yeh but not his one

hehe

mark

**Shepps** · 23-10-2003, 03:26 PM

get a bnc?

Thread: Can't connect to irc

LinkBack

Thread Tools

Can't connect to irc

Thread Information

Users Browsing this Thread

Posting Permissions