Stephen Hildrey wrote: > It might be worth trying to connect on port 6665 which is supported by > most (all?) freenode servers and is less likely to be filtered by your ISP.
Great! Using 6665 I can connect using Pidgin. I can't see anywhere to change the default port in Xchat-gnome. Any ideas? Thanks very much for your help with this. It was getting really exasperating! Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/