I can't connect to irc.ubuntu.com
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Mar 18 17:04:50 UTC 2008
On 03/16/2008 08:52 AM, Kinch Zhang wrote:
> 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
>
See:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat
You must first connect to to the irc.freenode.net (irc://freenode)
network & then join the chat group you are looking for
(irc://freenode/ubuntu). I am not sure how to set that up in Pidgin - I
use SeaMonkey's Chatzilla instead.
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