From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 7 23:13:41 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57E414D28 for ; Mon, 7 Jun 1999 23:12:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA92825; Tue, 8 Jun 1999 01:11:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 01:11:33 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: vagner@ginger.dhis.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IRC Message-ID: <19990608011132.A92747@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.5i In-Reply-To: ; from "vagner@ginger.dhis.org" on Mon Jun 7 20:47:33 GMT 1999 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jun 07), vagner@ginger.dhis.org said: > I am trying to get irc going and am running into some trouble. > > here is my trouble > > ginger# irc irc.freebsd.org > irc: unknown host > ginger# the irc command's usage is irc [nickname] [server] So you tried to connect to the default IRC server (which defaults to "irc") with a nickname of "irc.freebsd.org" :) Try irc vagner irc.freebsd.org -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message