From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 10:57:20 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA27271 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 10:57:20 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA27259 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 1995 10:57:12 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id BAA00428; Sat, 15 Apr 1995 01:57:22 +0800 Date: Sat, 15 Apr 1995 01:57:21 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-QUESTIONS-L Subject: Re: IRC client (contd.) In-Reply-To: <2F8EBA70@mailgate.cmp.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Apr 1995, Plyaskin Sergey wrote: > > Right now, my FreeBSD box (Host3) cannot use DNS on Host2 for some reason. I > have pointed to Host2 as my name server and configured /etc/resolv.conf. It > does not work anyway. I can't directly access, let's say irc2.mit.edu, even > if I have the entry for it in my host table. Does an "nslookup irc-2.mit.edu" work? You may not be able to connect to irc-2.mit.edu from inside the firewall because it is likely configured to refuse connections on most ports and more than likely on all ports above 1024 (IRC is on 6667). > I believe I should have some > port open (6667?) on Host2 or some kind of "IRC proxy", or something else > (?) to allow for communication. Any ideas? Thanks. Hmmmm... I never used IRC on or behind a firewall... it's considered a rather large security hole by most. Can you telnet to your host outside the firewall and IRC from there? -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org