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**operator** · 08-13-2006

hello everyone,

back from a long silent time spent in darkness,

- anyway last night i was trying to get hold of a few friends on xchat but it, strangely, just would not connect - i know that maybe for this kind of help I should join the xchat-forums ... but i was wondering if anyone has ever experienced similar probs

by the way, the port 6667 (which xchat usually use) is enabled/open on my router so i just dont get! what/where do i go wrong? this is the message that it gives while trying to connect:

looking up irc.librenet.......
connecting to irc.librenet..............
connection failed. Error: connection timed out
cycling to next server in librenet
Disconnected
looking up irc.librenet.......
connecting to irc.librenet..............
connection failed. Error: bad file descriptor
cycling to next server..........
disconnected
looking up irc.librenet.......
connecting to irc.librenet..............
connection failed. Error: network is unreachable
cycling to next server..............
disconnected
.............
............
............
and so on

any ideas? all suggestions welcome

**kern** · 08-13-2006

doesnt seem you're online, or for some reason can't connect to irc anyway, does web browsing work?

oh, you needn't worry about port 6667 on your firewall, thats port 6667 on their server, not your machine, you are connecting to port 6667 on their server, therefore they need it open on their firewall, not you.

I'd check connectivity in the terminal by 'ping www.google.com' first.

then work from there.

**Endianness** · 08-14-2006

Originally Posted by operator

hello everyone,

back from a long silent time spent in darkness,

- anyway last night i was trying to get hold of a few friends on xchat but it, strangely, just would not connect - i know that maybe for this kind of help I should join the xchat-forums ... but i was wondering if anyone has ever experienced similar probs

by the way, the port 6667 (which xchat usually use) is enabled/open on my router so i just dont get! what/where do i go wrong? this is the message that it gives while trying to connect:

looking up irc.librenet.......
connecting to irc.librenet..............
connection failed. Error: connection timed out
cycling to next server in librenet
Disconnected
looking up irc.librenet.......
connecting to irc.librenet..............
connection failed. Error: bad file descriptor
cycling to next server..........
disconnected
looking up irc.librenet.......
connecting to irc.librenet..............
connection failed. Error: network is unreachable
cycling to next server..............
disconnected
.............
............
............
and so on

any ideas? all suggestions welcome

But is it opened on your local machine? With an iptable rule from your machine to the outside?

**stubbe** · 08-14-2006

I don't know anything about this port thingy, but I do reccomend instead of XChat, you should try Gaim. It can do IRC too.

**netstrider** · 08-14-2006

connection failed. Error: network is unreachable
cycling to next server..............
disconnected

It might be that their server is down...Some servers don't use the 6667 port and it might be that your server does not. If it usually did then all I can think of is that your connection does not work or the server is offline.

Best of luck

**operator** · 08-14-2006

heyy guys
it appears to be the /etc/resolv.conf file not to be set properly - i had to add a few lines with my ISP's ip-address as IRC doesnt translate router ip-addresses
nameserver ip-address
nameserver ip-address
etc....

it connected fine when I joined the server manually:
#server 123.4.56.789
#server 987.65.4.321
etc...

anyway i hope this was helpful toany of you just in case you happen to bump on the same wall,

cheers

**operator** · 08-16-2006

sorry me again,

OK! i solved that problem but now I have got another one pretty unusual - I always consider myself as a newbie, cos i believe that we never stop learning but i had never come to sumthing like this - I edited /etc/resolv.conf adding a line with my main DNS server ip-address

previous: /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.1

new /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 192.168.1.1
nameserver myDNS ip=address

well, guess what? everytime I reboot/restart my system '/etc/resolv.conf' goes back to its previous 'single line' format, and i'm pretty sure that i saved the new file - i re-edited the file and SAVED it and still appears as a 'single line' file after i rebooted

so, where do i go wrong now? why does it not get saved although I DID save it?

thnx

p.s.: i also run updatedb after i edited the file!

**kern** · 08-16-2006

its because of dhcpcd issuing a new resolv.conf based on dhcp lease.

but. if you set it read only (non writable) I'd imagine it'll stop happening

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