I can't connect to irc.ubuntu.com

[Arvind K]

well i could never connect using gaim and pidgin to IRC...use xchat..tats
the best for IRC
sudo apt-get install xchat

Message: 6
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:52:59 +0800
From: "Kinch Zhang" <kinch.zhang at gmail.com>
Subject: I can't connect to irc.ubuntu.com
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Hi , everyone
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> I've failed to connect to irc.ubuntu.com for quite a long time.
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> My IRC client is Pidgin 2.2.1 , and my internet connection is ok .
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> But I can "ping" irc.ubuntu.com successfully ( below is the statistics )
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>   ~$ ping irc.ubuntu.com
> PING chat.freenode.net (64.161.254.20) 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from kubrick.freenode.net (64.161.254.20): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51
> time=499 ms
> 64 bytes from kubrick.freenode.net (64.161.254.20): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51
> time=490 ms
> 64 bytes from kubrick.freenode.net (64.161.254.20): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51
> time=499 ms
> 64 bytes from kubrick.freenode.net (64.161.254.20): icmp_seq=4 ttl=51
> time=522 ms
> 64 bytes from kubrick.freenode.net (64.161.254.20): icmp_seq=5 ttl=51
> time=517 ms
> 64 bytes from kubrick.freenode.net (64.161.254.20): icmp_seq=6 ttl=51
> time=515 ms
> 64 bytes from kubrick.freenode.net (64.161.254.20): icmp_seq=7 ttl=51
> time=527 ms
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> --- chat.freenode.net ping statistics ---
> 8 packets transmitted, 7 received, 12% packet loss, time 6997ms
> rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 490.668/510.326/527.176/12.686 ms
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> So this problem is really weird ( I also tried ChatZilla but it kept
> connecting ...)
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> I live in Chian mainland .
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> Thanks for any clue
>
> Kinch Zhang
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> --
> Kinch::The Missing Person
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