>>>>> "Sandip" == Sandip Bhattacharya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Sandip> # 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 Sandip> It is not a problem with cygwin, it is a "feature" of most Sandip> IRC servers now. To prevent automated attacks, etc on the Sandip> chat servers, as soon as you login to the chat server, it Sandip> first tries to connect to the ident service on your Sandip> machine to find out whether you really have a running Sandip> account there which is attempting to connect. Sandip> Windows desktops dont have ident services. However, Sandip> windows IRC clients like mirc starts its own ident Sandip> services to allow you to authenticate and login to the Sandip> chat server. Sandip> So the solution is: either you use a chat client which is Sandip> compliant with the IRC server like mirc, or run your own Sandip> ident service on the machine. I dont know how - for the Sandip> second option. Oh, I don't know. Connecting to irc.freenode.net from IRSSI (the rocking Perl-enabled client) under Linux: 07:58 Irssi: Connecting to irc.freenode.net [82.96.64.2] port 6667 07:58 Irssi: Connection to irc.freenode.net established 07:58 <- notice[irc.freenode.net] *** Looking up your hostname... 07:58 <- notice[irc.freenode.net] *** Checking ident 07:58 <- notice[irc.freenode.net] *** No identd (auth) response 07:59 <- notice[irc.freenode.net] *** Couldn't look up your hostname 07:59 Welcome to the freenode IRC Network OldMonk 07:59 Your host is kornbluth.freenode.net[kornbluth.freenode.net/6667], running version dancer-ircd-1.0.35 No ident, no reverse lookup, it still works. -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ 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]/