>>>>> "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.
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