Re: yahoo instant messenger (im)

[Jacob S <stormspotter@6Texans.net>]

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 21:35:27 +0800
hja123 <hja123@singnet.com.sg> wrote:

> Thanks, Kent.
> I am trying im with Kopete using IRC. The problem is that it requires
> me  to fill in a server and a port number. I know of a few servers and
> ports  but they are in names rather than numbers. For instance, for
> server  irc.debian.org, what would be the corresponding port number
> for #debian?

$cat /etc/services | grep irc 
shows that port 194 is typically used for irc (unless you're using irc
over ssl or something special). 

$host irc.debian.org
returns the following:
irc.debian.org          CNAME   irc.freenode.net
irc.freenode.net        A       66.111.60.71
irc.freenode.net        A       82.96.64.2
irc.freenode.net        A       85.188.1.26
irc.freenode.net        A       140.211.166.3
irc.freenode.net        A       140.211.166.4
irc.freenode.net        A       212.204.214.114
irc.freenode.net        A       217.172.187.182

HTH,
Jacob