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Worked fine for me, I even talked to alver with it. But, I still prefer irssi... Anyways, did you try the latest version, and maybe blow away your old config files first? https://adium.im/help/pgs/Miscellaneous ... Files.html

Anybody using iptables on their firewall? Any hints on how to hack the config file to let IRC traffic through? All the "simple and obvious" stuff I've tried has done nothing except start blocking my Apache webserver traffic from getting through as well... 0_o

vishnu wrote: Anybody using iptables on their firewall? Any hints on how to hack the config file to let IRC traffic through? All the "simple and obvious" stuff I've tried has done nothing except start blocking my Apache webserver traffic from getting through as well... 0_o

an isolated rule is not enough. iptables and others are rule sets. emphasis on set where the position of each rule matters, too.
you could paste your firewall here; maybe obscuring certain details but without seeing the whole thing all help is just a stab in the dark.

if you don't wanna expose your ruleset in public feel free to send a pm

I'm on travel for work so don't have access to the config file (not even I can get into my firewall from the Internet!), but it's pretty simple, the default is to drop everything then I specifically permit a few things through, I thought permitting traffic on the ports that are dedicated to IRC would do it, but noooooooo...

vishnu wrote: I'm on travel for work so don't have access to the config file (not even I can get into my firewall from the Internet!), but it's pretty simple, the default is to drop everything then I specifically permit a few things through, I thought permitting traffic on the ports that are dedicated to IRC would do it, but noooooooo...

just to be clear: do you just wanna use irc as a client or running an ircd?

foetz wrote:

vishnu wrote: I'm on travel for work so don't have access to the config file (not even I can get into my firewall from the Internet!), but it's pretty simple, the default is to drop everything then I specifically permit a few things through, I thought permitting traffic on the ports that are dedicated to IRC would do it, but noooooooo...

just to be clear: do you just wanna use irc as a client or running an ircd?

Just as a client; trying to connect my newly compiled smirc to the nekochan irc server and I get a response back but it times out "waiting for authentication," it used to work just fine for me back in the days when the Internet was all friends, I'm pretty sure this is the first time I've tried to irc since I started running iptables on my Internet gateway, which, I guess makes it an Internet firewall now. It's just a circa-1997 Pentium Pro 200 with 2 NICs, a wireless card and a dialup modem running Slackware 14...

a few irc things have changed. if you haven't used smirc for so long it might just not work anymore. you could simply turn the firewall off for a moment and try then. that'll instantly tell where the problem is.

one of these changes for example is that irc servers now require an initial pong after you sent the USER line. older irc programs don't have that.

foetz wrote: a few irc things have changed. if you haven't used smirc for so long it might just not work anymore. you could simply turn the firewall off for a moment and try then. that'll instantly tell where the problem is.

one of these changes for example is that irc servers now require an initial pong after you sent the USER line. older irc programs don't have that.

Oh good grief, is there an updated RFC that describes that?

Just kidding! I know how to search RFCs, looks like 1459 and 2812 are relevant, with numerous websites from the Peanut Gallery chiming in...

I bailed on the IRC channel - lots of trolling and circular conversations - nothing fun in the least.

Yeah I tend to pop in once in a while but this is on and off... Once every few years I will stick around for a few weeks or months. This is one of those times. The last time was circa 2010, and before that 2007...

Here's a first. I couldn't join #nekochan last night because the channel was full.

Mind you at any given time more than half the connected users have been idling for over five years. When is the last time a janitor went through?