Mac wrote: > Mac wrote: >> I thought I'd have a go with IRC. I've set up an account in >> Xchat-gnome, but it does not make the connection. All I get is >> >> Looking up irc.ubuntu.com.. >> Connecting to chat.freenode.net (209.177.146.34) port 6667.. >> >> and then it just hangs. I get the same thing with other channels; and >> the same thing happens if I try using Pidgin. >> > > > Sorry for double post, but it may help to know that I can do > > ping chat.freenode.net > PING chat.freenode.net (154.35.200.44) 56(84) bytes of data. [snip]
(Note that chat.freenode.net has round-robin DNS and that the address your IRC client was trying to connect to is different to the one you ended up pinging. I don't expect this is part of the problem though.) Does your ISP block port 6667? Can you connect to chat.freenode.net:6667 (e.g. telnet chat.freenode.net 6667)? Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
