Can't Use IRC in Mdrake9.1

[ignatius@notreal.net]

I have tried using both KSIRC and XCHAT to connect to various undernet
servers on various ports, but I can never make it work. It often returns
the message 'no known route to host.' Sometimes it says 'checking
identd.'

I installed identd off the Mandrake distro and created a Shorewall
exception (113/tcp 113/udp) to open the port. This did not
help. According to the MCC, identd is running. I used Webmin to turn
Shorewall off entirely, and this did not help either.

I'm on an ethernet connection with DHCP. No problems surfing the web,
just with irc. (And java, but we'll get to that later.)

Any ideas? Thanks.

[ignatius@notreal.net]

I forgot to add that I often get the message "hostname 'x.x.x' not found."

[Nico Kadel-Garcia]

[email]ignatius@notreal.net[/email] wrote:

> I have tried using both KSIRC and XCHAT to connect to various undernet
> servers on various ports, but I can never make it work. It often returns
> the message 'no known route to host.' Sometimes it says 'checking
> identd.'
>
> I installed identd off the Mandrake distro and created a Shorewall
> exception (113/tcp 113/udp) to open the port. This did not
> help. According to the MCC, identd is running. I used Webmin to turn
> Shorewall off entirely, and this did not help either.
>
> I'm on an ethernet connection with DHCP. No problems surfing the web,
> just with irc. (And java, but we'll get to that later.)
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.

Are you behind a NAT server, or , say using a cable modem using PPPOE?
Running behind someone else's firewall that might be blocking identd? I
certainly block it on firewalls that I run, to prevent weasels from
using insecure machines that might get broken *behind* my firewalls to
ue IRC servers without my knowledge.