Hello, all. I am having a bit of trouble getting connected to irc servers, it seems. I am getting the following messages in the window of X-Chat: Connected. Now logging in.. AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname... AUTH :*** Found your hostname, cached AUTH :*** Checking Ident AUTH :*** No Ident response Closing Link: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (You are not authorized to use this server) Disconnected. Now it would appear that since I am behind a firewall, the irc servers can't get a ident response, and are dropping my connection. Thus I can't seem to get onto EFnet, among others. Is this normal. Also, how do I go about getting around this, as I was under the impression that ident is not the best thing to leave running anyway, for security reasons. I am behind a firewall, which is probably blocking these queries in the first place, but I'm not sure I want to be 'forced' to run ident, in any event. There are other servers (which don't carry the channel I'm looking for, unfortunately), which do allow logon w/o an ident responce from my pc... they just use the one from my isp account. Any ideas on how to get on to EFnet w/ this situation? Thanks for your time, Monte -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq