From owner-freebsd-isp Sat Mar 1 15:11:38 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA03664 for isp-outgoing; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:11:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mojo.calyx.net (nick@mojo.calyx.net [208.132.136.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA03654 for ; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 15:11:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (nick@localhost) by mojo.calyx.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA02870; Sat, 1 Mar 1997 18:11:23 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 1997 18:11:23 -0500 (EST) From: Nick Merrill To: Tim Tsai cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRC and "connection refused" In-Reply-To: <199703010857.CAA06295@shell.futuresouth.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk probably your reverse DNS is broken.. (ie IN-ADDR.ARPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nicholas Merrill 24 Hour pager: 212-381-0500 Voice: 212-292-7325 President / CEO http://www.calyx.net Fax : 212-292-7313 Calyx Internet Access 271 E. 10th St. #100 NYC 10009 Email: nick@calyx.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Tim Tsai wrote: > 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? > > I've tried the numerical IP addresses and also telnet to the specific > port and same error. Is there anything I am missing? Do I need to > specifically ask each site to allow us access or is there a > misconfiguration on our part? > > PS: We're trying to access undernet. > > Thanks, > > Tim >