I can't connect to irc.ubuntu.com

[Matias Alberto Gavinowich]

Hi,

Perhaps it's a silly question  but.. have you tried connecting to
other irc servers? The number one cause for my troubles with
connecting to irc servers has historically been that I had the Identd
port closed in my router (so this can actually be OS independent,
tough it could be your iptables I guess, but I'm no expert on that).

I solved my problem by enabling port trigerring so as for the 113 port
to be open when outbound communication takes place in the IRC ports
range (e.g. 6660 to 7000). You may want to check out step 5 here:
http://www.rogues-gallery.net/LinkSys-Configuration/mirc-linksys.htm

Even if your problem is not with a router but with your OS config, I
think it still could have sth to do with Identd so checking that
possibility may help solve the issue.

Regards,

Matt


On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Arvind K <arvindkhadri at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> >
> >
> > I've failed to connect to irc.ubuntu.com for quite a long time.
> >
> > My IRC client is Pidgin 2.2.1 , and my internet connection is ok .
> >
> > But I can "ping" irc.ubuntu.com successfully ( below is the statistics )
> >
> >   ~$ 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
> >
> > --- 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
> >
> >
> > So this problem is really weird ( I also tried ChatZilla but it kept
> > connecting ...)
> >
> >
> > I live in Chian mainland .
> >
> > Thanks for any clue
> >
> >
> > Kinch Zhang
> >
> > --
> > Kinch::The Missing Person
> >
>
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