I have had a problem with using the efnet irc network. none of the servers will now accept me. I am running ident, but it sitll doesn't work. Perhaps the problem is ident.conf? i dunno. I am also behind a firewall on my dsl router. Port 113 is listening but I dont really know how to find out more than that. My apt mate uses mirc in win98 and can get in. i can't. However, xconsole shows this: Jun 1 12:06:21 gandalf in.identd[21340]: listen(0, 256) failed: Invalid argument Jun 1 12:06:29 gandalf in.identd[21342]: listen(0, 256) failed: Invalid argument Jun 1 12:06:36 gandalf in.identd[21344]: listen(0, 256) failed: Invalid argument Jun 1 20:35:28 gandalf in.identd[22980]: listen(0, 256) failed: Invalid argument Jun 1 20:52:11 gandalf in.identd[23023]: listen(0, 256) failed: Invalid argument of course, i dunno what this means either :( I want back into my fave irc channels. can anybody local help me? locale: the sf bay area, specifically soma in sf using suse 7.1 and xchat -- Bob Rea Freedom is only privilege extended unless enjoyed by one and all --Billy Bragg rear@sirius.com http://www.sirius.com/~rear