---- Original Message ----- From: "Sandip Bhattacharya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "The Linux-Delhi mailing list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [ilugd] #linux-india IRC channel
> # Subodh # wrote: > > hi ! > > > > i am running "Cygwin" each time i try to connect by giveing command > > $irc > > /server irc.freenode.net > > it says > > ***Looking up your hostname.... > > ***checking ident > > ***Coudn't lookup your hostname > > ***no ident <auth> response > > *** closing link: connection timed out. > > > > where i am wrong i have set up nothing in cygwin its only yesterday i > > installed > > > > It is not a problem with cygwin, it is a "feature" of most IRC servers > now. To prevent automated attacks, etc on the chat servers, as soon as > you login to the chat server, it first tries to connect to the ident > service on your machine to find out whether you really have a running > account there which is attempting to connect. > > Windows desktops dont have ident services. However, windows IRC clients > like mirc starts its own ident services to allow you to authenticate and > login to the chat server. > > So the solution is: either you use a chat client which is compliant with > the IRC server like mirc, or run your own ident service on the machine. > I dont know how - for the second option. > > - Sandip i am running my own ident service on WinXP.. but stll the same results any package suggestion for cygwin ??? that might help rgds Subodh _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
