XChat and iptables

[Christoph Georgi]

Hi,

I'm trying to connect to irc.freenode.net using xchat. The connection 
process stopps at the following:

* *** Looking up your hostname...
* *** Checking ident
* *** Found your hostname

My iptable rejects packets that are intended for port 'auth' with 
tcp-reject:

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$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p TCP --dport auth --syn -j REJECT --reject-with 
tcp-reset
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I opended the firewall to allow packages from my computer with destion 
port 6667 to connect.

Could anyone please tell me, what I'm missing to be able to connect to irc?

thanks,
.christoph

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