On 5 Aug 2000 phantasm@triad.rr.com wrote:
p> There are some EFNet servers that you can try that might not pick up the lack of ident.
p>
p> irc.freei.net (Slim chance to it being open)
p> irc.primenet.com
None of the primenet servers will let you in without a valid ident
response. Trust me. I'd be interested in a better solution then finding
servers that don't query for ident as more and more are doing that now.
p> irc.prison.net
p> irc.mcs.net
p> irc.concentric.net
p>
p> One of them 5 always seem to have let me on when I didnt have ident running.
p>
p> Robert K. Davies
p>
p>
p> > ** Original Subject: RE: [SLE] ident & irc
p> > ** Original Sender: Monte Milanuk
p> > ** Original Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2000 23:34:27 -0400
p>
p> > ** Original Message follows...
p>
p> >
p> > Hello, all.
p> >
p> > I am having a bit of trouble getting connected to irc servers, it seems.
p> >
p> > I am getting the following messages in the window of X-Chat:
p> >
p> > Connected. Now logging in..
p> > AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
p> > AUTH :*** Found your hostname, cached
p> > AUTH :*** Checking Ident
p> > AUTH :*** No Ident response
p> > Closing Link: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (You are not authorized to use this
p> > server)
p> > Disconnected.
p> >
p> >
p> > Now it would appear that since I am behind a firewall, the irc servers
p> > can't get a ident response, and are dropping my connection. Thus I
p> > can't seem to get onto EFnet, among others. Is this normal. Also, how
p> > do I go about getting around this, as I was under the impression that
p> > ident is not the best thing to leave running anyway, for security
p> > reasons. I am behind a firewall, which is probably blocking these
p> > queries in the first place, but I'm not sure I want to be 'forced' to
p> > run ident, in any event.
p> >
p> > There are other servers (which don't carry the channel I'm looking for,
p> > unfortunately), which do allow logon w/o an ident responce from my pc...
p> > they just use the one from my isp account.
p> >
p> > Any ideas on how to get on to EFnet w/ this situation?
p> >
p> > Thanks for your time,
p> >
p> > Monte
p> >
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