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" <<a href="mailto:kinch.zhang@gmail.com">kinch.zhang@gmail.com</a>> Subject: I can't connect to <a href="http://irc.ubuntu.com">irc.ubuntu.com</a> To: <a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Message-ID: <da07b6240803160852i2d3015e5v30<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <a href="mailto:996afecaa1dd57@mail.gmail.com">996afecaa1dd57@mail.gmail.com</a>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Hi , everyone I've failed to connect to <a href="http://irc.ubuntu.com">irc.ubuntu.com</a> for quite a long time. My IRC client is Pidgin 2.2.1 , and my internet connection is ok . But I can "ping" <a href="http://irc.ubuntu.com">irc.ubuntu.com</a> successfully ( below is the statistics ) ~$ ping <a href="http://irc.ubuntu.com">irc.ubuntu.com</a> PING <a href="http://chat.freenode.net">chat.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://64.161.254.20">64.161.254.20</a>) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from <a href="http://kubrick.freenode.net">kubrick.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://64.161.254.20">64.161.254.20</a>): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=499 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://kubrick.freenode.net">kubrick.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://64.161.254.20">64.161.254.20</a>): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=490 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://kubrick.freenode.net">kubrick.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://64.161.254.20">64.161.254.20</a>): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=499 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://kubrick.freenode.net">kubrick.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://64.161.254.20">64.161.254.20</a>): icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=522 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://kubrick.freenode.net">kubrick.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://64.161.254.20">64.161.254.20</a>): icmp_seq=5 ttl=51 time=517 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://kubrick.freenode.net">kubrick.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://64.161.254.20">64.161.254.20</a>): icmp_seq=6 ttl=51 time=515 ms 64 bytes from <a href="http://kubrick.freenode.net">kubrick.freenode.net</a> (<a href="http://64.161.254.20">64.161.254.20</a>): icmp_seq=7 ttl=51 time=527 ms --- <a href="http://chat.freenode.net">chat.freenode.net</a> 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 </blockquote>