<div dir="ltr">Do you have any firewall rules that may be blocking IRC? <div class="gmail_quote">2008/8/1 Mac <<a href="mailto:Ammonius.Grammaticus@googlemail.com">Ammonius.Grammaticus@googlemail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Mac wrote: > I thought I'd have a go with IRC.  I've set up an account in > Xchat-gnome, but it does not make the connection.  All I get is > >   Looking up <a href="http://irc.ubuntu.com" target="_blank">irc.ubuntu.com</a>.. >   Connecting to <a href="http://chat.freenode.net" target="_blank">chat.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://209.177.146.34" target="_blank">209.177.146.34</a>) port 6667.. > > and then it just hangs.  I get the same thing with other channels;  and > the same thing happens if I try using Pidgin. > Sorry for double post, but it may help to know that I can do  ping <a href="http://chat.freenode.net" target="_blank">chat.freenode.net</a> PING <a href="http://chat.freenode.net" target="_blank">chat.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://154.35.200.44" target="_blank">154.35.200.44</a>) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from <a href="http://card.freenode.net" target="_blank">card.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://154.35.200.44" target="_blank">154.35.200.44</a>): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=112 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://card.freenode.net" target="_blank">card.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://154.35.200.44" target="_blank">154.35.200.44</a>): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=111 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://card.freenode.net" target="_blank">card.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://154.35.200.44" target="_blank">154.35.200.44</a>): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=113 ms Mac -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> </div>