On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:12:15PM -0500 or thereabouts, Hall Stevenson wrote: > > I'm sitting behind a firewall and want to use IRC. The > > firewall does masquerading and is also limiting incoming > > and outgoing traffic. I thought the problem may be identd > > which can not access my machine behind the firewall. > > But iptraf shows also that my connection is not > > answered (the S bit is displayed). > > Don't some or most IRC servers require being able to "ident" you ?? You > may have to install or enable it. >
ident is not required. what you need to do is allow port 6667 thru your firewall -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+ Key fingerprint = 9DE1 5825 77B4 FF45 7485 D3EB DCCF DE48 09B6 4426 +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+--+-+-+-+-+-+ Who's watching the watchmen?