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> 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


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