> -----Original Message----- > From: core-contrib-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org > [mailto:core-contrib-discuss-bounces at opensolaris.org] On > Behalf Of Dan Mick > Sent: mi?rcoles, 05 de marzo de 2008 22:16 > To: Alan Hargreaves > Cc: Cathy Zhou; core-contrib-discuss at opensolaris.org; > OpenSolaris Governing Board Discussions; Glynn Foster; Darren Reed > Subject: Re: [core-contrib-discuss] [ogb-discuss] ENOQUORUM responses? > > > they're still announcing campuses daily that have DIA (Direct > Internet Access) added; it's not worldwide quite yet. I'm > assuming Cathy is in a place without DIA, although yes, it's > worth checking. > > Alan Hargreaves wrote: > > Actually, you should not have to use SOCKS at all. The > firewalls were > > fixed some time ago to allow such a connection out (indeed > that's how I > > have pidgin configured). It looks to ,me like we still have > not got all > > of the DNS's doing the right thing. If the client used the > IP address, > > it should work. > > > > alan. > > > > Darren Reed wrote: > >> Glynn Foster wrote: > >> > >>> Hey, > >>> > >>> Cathy Zhou wrote: > >>> > >>> > >>>> I got the following errors when I tried the web client: > >>>> > >>>> "Connecting... > >>>> Unable to connect : java.net.UnknownHostException : > >>>> irc.freenode.net" > >>>> > >>>> Did I miss anything obvious? > >>>> > >>>> > >>> Unfortunately that's the firewall kicking into action. I > don't know > >>> any easy way > >>> around that for SWAN only employees. > >>> > >>> > >> Ideally you should be able to use one of the SOCKS proxies > for this. > >> > >> I hate to say this, but when using M$ Windows, I believe > that all of > >> the TCP connections out are SOCKSified with Java - so long as you > >> have SOCKS configured via Internet Exploder. > >> > >> I haven't been able to find an easy to do this for Un*x yet. > >> > >> The best bet is to find a SOCKSified IRC client for Solaris. > >> > >> Darren > >>
Without DIA xor behind FW, the best choice is a web interface (cgi based) where access to server irc.freenode.com (and your favorite channel) isnt blocked, like: http://www.brujula.net/chat/ Best Regards \|||||||/ ( @ @ ) -----oOOo-( )---oOOo-------- | Gustavo H Reyes | | http://es.opensolaris.org | | irc://irc.freenode.net | | #opensolaris-es | ---------------0ooo--------- ooo0 ( ) ( ) ) / \ ( (_/ \_)
