From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 5 9:29:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailarray.mpx.com.au (local2.mpx.com.au [203.29.192.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E68C9153A1 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 09:29:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wincent@dingoblue.net.au) Received: from [192.168.0.2](really [198.142.184.171]) by mailarray.mpx.com.au via smtpd with esmtp id for ; Sat, 4 Dec 1999 13:33:58 +1100 (/\##/\ Smail3.1.30.13.Y2K #30.35 built 1-mar-01) User-Agent: Microsoft Outlook Express Macintosh Edition - 5.0 (1513) Date: Sat, 04 Dec 1999 13:03:51 +1030 Subject: IRC from behind a gateway From: wincent To: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG (Already tried sending this, but it bounced back... apologies if it went through twice!) I've had a great time on the net since setting up a FreeBSD gateway! I love this OS already. But here's a question.... When I try to use IRC, many servers insist that I run "inetd" or they'll boot me off. So, I can run inetd, and they'll let me log on from an IRC client running on the FBSD gateway. But, if I try to run a client on a private machine *behind* the gateway they boot me off every time, whether or not inetd is running on the gateway. (Seeing as the machine in question is a Mac, I couldn't run inetd on that anyway). So what's up? Is this peculiar to IRC or have I got my configuration wrong somewhere? Other protocols and services work fine: ssh, ftp, http, DNS etc. Thanks Wincent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message