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Date:      Thu, 24 Oct 1996 13:45:29 -0400
From:      brianc@milkyway.com (Brian Campbell)
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IRC client problem
Message-ID:  <199610241746.NAA11524@jupiter.milkyway.com>
In-Reply-To: <199610241628.QAA03748@veda.is>; from Adam David on Oct 24, 1996 16:28:51 %2B0000
References:  <199610141545.QAA17254@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <199610241628.QAA03748@veda.is>

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Adam David writes:
> >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?)

I had the same problem under the 1014 snap (but not with the 1010 snap).
My "solution" was to remove the -lresolv from the link.



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