From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Mar 1 12:27:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA27888 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:27:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from tarpon.exis.net (stefan@tarpon.exis.net [205.252.72.108]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA27879 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 12:27:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (from stefan@localhost) by tarpon.exis.net (8.7.4/8.7.3) id PAA20577; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:34:15 -0500 Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:34:14 -0500 (EST) From: Stefan Molnar To: Mark Rollings cc: Tim Tsai , freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRC and "connection refused" In-Reply-To: <14491642401685@telcentral.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > We just setup an ircII client and it seems that every server we try we > > get a "connection refused" message. I looked through the ircII FAQ but > > it doesn't say anything about authentication. Any ideas? > > Ensure your client will respond to ident requests. Also, it must reply to > the ping correctly...from memory, I believe it should be Pong $server > m##### region. But the FBSD box has to have the identd server running, that is not on by defualt, and hoefully you have the actualy daemon. > That may or may not be precisely correct...been awhile since I messed with > it. If you can get your hands on the code for the ircd, all your questions > would be answered. The most stable ircd I have seen is at > ftp.beyondirc.net it should be named beyond-2.0.tar.gz Stefan -------------------------------------------- Stefan Molnar Team Exis.Net stefan@exis.net Member EFF Slightly Silly Team OS/2 east-coast-ambassador@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU "She turned me into a Newt! A Newt? I got better." -Monty Python --------------------------------------------