Hi everyone.
Since I have a quiet afternoon ahead of me, can someone lend a hand getting my IRC connection to work - I have tried opening a connection to both irc.oftc.net and irc.alug.org.uk (both resolve to the same IP addresses so I guess alug is just an alias anyway) by typing:
/server irc.oftc.net
in Besirc 2.2.13 (sorry, stuck in windoze while I am at work, not through choice) but all I get is a Connection failed. message.
Is there some way I can troubleshoot/test a connection into IRC from here - either from Windows or Linux (I can ssh and/or XDMCP into one of my test servers in the plant room from here using either PuTTY or Cygwin/X, but its not really something I can do permanently).
TIA,
Jim
On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:43:26PM +0100, Jim Rippon wrote:
Hi everyone.
Since I have a quiet afternoon ahead of me, can someone lend a hand getting my IRC connection to work - I have tried opening a connection to both irc.oftc.net and irc.alug.org.uk (both resolve to the same IP addresses so I guess alug is just an alias anyway) by typing:
/server irc.oftc.net
in Besirc 2.2.13 (sorry, stuck in windoze while I am at work, not through choice) but all I get is a Connection failed. message.
Could it be simply that IRC is blocked by your work firewall?
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Jim Rippon jim@rippon.org.uk wrote:
Hi everyone.
Since I have a quiet afternoon ahead of me, can someone lend a hand getting my IRC connection to work - I have tried opening a connection to both irc.oftc.net and irc.alug.org.uk (both resolve to the same IP addresses so I guess alug is just an alias anyway) by typing:
/server irc.oftc.net
in Besirc 2.2.13 (sorry, stuck in windoze while I am at work, not through choice) but all I get is a Connection failed. message.
Is there some way I can troubleshoot/test a connection into IRC from here - either from Windows or Linux (I can ssh and/or XDMCP into one of my test servers in the plant room from here using either PuTTY or Cygwin/X, but its not really something I can do permanently).
telnet irc.alug.org.uk 6667
if you get a connection, then you obviously can get out to the IRC server, if you get a connection refused, there's a firewall in the way.
Hope that helps, - -- Brett Parker web: http://www.sommitrealweird.co.uk/ email: iDunno@sommitrealweird.co.uk
Thanks Chris and Brett,
Brett Parker wrote:
telnet irc.alug.org.uk 6667
I am getting blocked here, from what I can tell its my linux-based pseudo-firewall, as I can do this from my web server which is directly connected to the DSL Router.
I have a Debian Sarge box running Squid/SquidGuard on top of IPTables. The only rules in IPTables are in the nat prerouting and postrouting to bring incoming traffic through to our email server, and take outgoing traffic through the Squid cache transparently.
I have added two rules to the top of the prerouting/postrouting tables to explicitly RETURN any packets to/from my IP address but no joy - any ideas?
Ta,
Jim
Jim Rippon wrote:
Thanks Chris and Brett,
Brett Parker wrote:
telnet irc.alug.org.uk 6667
I am getting blocked here, from what I can tell its my linux-based pseudo-firewall, as I can do this from my web server which is directly connected to the DSL Router.
I have a Debian Sarge box running Squid/SquidGuard on top of IPTables. The only rules in IPTables are in the nat prerouting and postrouting to bring incoming traffic through to our email server, and take outgoing traffic through the Squid cache transparently.
I have added two rules to the top of the prerouting/postrouting tables to explicitly RETURN any packets to/from my IP address but no joy - any ideas?
Ta,
Jim
Sorry, found the problem - I was running McAffee VirusScan Enterprise 8 which includes a port blocking firewall - d'oh!
Apologies for being so daft!
Jim
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