Please help - IRC block

Oriel

Hi folks,

My girlfriend and I have just moved to opposite ends of the country and we're trying to use irc to chat as often as possible.
The problem is: in Uni, port 6667 is blocked, so I can't connect to irc.

Does anybody konw of anyway around this at all?

Cheers,
Sinecure

scojones

http://http-tunnel.com the solution to all of your problems! configuring it is simple. select socks4/5 and give your username and pw for the for the college network. http://www.xchat.org and go to settings, select socks4/5 and set your proxy server to localhost: 1080. Done and Done.

Giblet

You can get around it using standard IRC options.

Go into options/firewall

Set the Firewall Support to Server, and the Server type to Proxy.
Enter your college proxy and port number in the boxes provided.

Easy.

These options are only available in newer version of mIRC.

Oriel

Thank guys, but I still can't get this working. I'm no network wizard, but I thought I'd be able to get it working.

Where exactly can I get my proxy server's ip address and port from?

Thanks.

Oriel

Ok, a little progress.
I don't need to enter any username or password to get this far.

It seems to try to connect to irc anyway, but then returns the following error:

"*** Looking up your hostname
*** Checking Ident
*** Couldn't look up your hostname

Auth Hacker

Closing Link: <username> by oslo.no.quakenet.org (G-lined)"
Disconnected (Remote host closed socket)."

I'm presuming it's the server disconnecting me since I'm connecting to it in an unusual way or something.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

scojones

that's ok, you're getting around the firewall fine. It's just that ign.ie.quakenet.org has glined http-tunnel users. So you can't irc there

Frank Grimes

Originally posted by Sinecure
Any ideas?

Try connecting to Dalnet or Undernet instead.

Oriel

Neither of those work either, by the way.
But it's ok - I've got the actual connection working now anyway, so it's just a matter of picking my server.

It was easier than I thought - it's just that the whole g-slide thing was with the server when i was thinking that it was my connection itself.

Thanks a lot guys!

scojones

no problem

daveJAM

You could try using a bouncer to access quakenet, should work fine then.

I'm trying to set up the same thing in WIT. A friend of mine has supplied me with a bouncer so all I need now is the address of the proxy in WIT so I can use http-tunnel. I know that there are quite a few members in WIT so if anyone could provide the neccessary info, I'd be very grateful.

Or, if anyone has any better ideas...

Dave

Creamy Goodness

both sign up for msn messenger accounts and use that