The idea is that you then configure your IRC client to use 10.40.40.40
(or whatever IP you chose) as the server's IP address. From your description,
I couldn't tell if you had also done that or not. If not, that's probably
the reason it's not working.
David
Grozdan wrote:
> I then went to the freenode site and looked up information on how to make
> freenode work with Tor. In the documentation, it said to add the below line
> to my torrc file - http://freenode.net/irc_servers.shtml#tor
>
> mapaddress 10.40.40.40 mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion
>
> and then to restart Tor, which I did. But I keep getting the same response
> from freenode and it doesn't allow me to connect at all.
>
