Re: IRC and Firewall
On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 01:12:15PM -0500 or thereabouts, Hall Stevenson wrote:
> > I'm sitting behind a firewall and want to use IRC. The
> > firewall does masquerading and is also limiting incoming
> > and outgoing traffic. I thought the problem may be identd
> > which can not access my machine behind the firewall.
> > But iptraf shows also that my connection is not
> > answered (the S bit is displayed).
>
> Don't some or most IRC servers require being able to "ident" you ?? You
> may have to install or enable it.
>
ident is not required. what you need to do is allow port 6667 thru your
firewall
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