From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 24 09:29:27 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA03274 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veda.is (root@ubiq.veda.is [193.4.230.60]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA03269 for ; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:29:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adam@localhost) by veda.is (8.8.2/8.7.3) id QAA03748; Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:28:51 GMT Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:28:51 GMT From: Adam David Message-Id: <199610241628.QAA03748@veda.is> To: kuku@gilberto.PHysik.rwth-aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IRC client problem Newsgroups: list.freebsd.hackers References: <199610141545.QAA17254@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #2 (NOV) Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >A colleague (who is using IRC) came today with the complaint that >the irc client doesn't work (anymore) on our main server machine >(which is running -current of varying vintage). This is what he got: > *** Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de > *** Unable to connect to port 6667 of server irc.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de: Address > +family not supported by protocol family > *** Use /SERVER to connect to a server Rebuild and reinstall the client, something changed that requires this. (something in the networking header files, some struct changed perhaps?) Adam David