IRC - How to connect?

**sayakb** · June 6th, 2008

Register a nick using the second link I gave.

**hyper_ch** · June 6th, 2008

now join a channel... either type:

Code:

/join #ubuntu

or open a channel join dialog box somewhere... I don't use xchat...

You can also join more than one channel, so once you joint #ubuntu join #ubuntuforums with:

Code:

/join #ubuntuforums

and instead of /join I think you chould also just write /j

**Joeb454** · June 6th, 2008

Are you trying to connect to an irc server at ubuntu.com or the FreeNode IRC server?

I connect to the FreeNode server (it's in the network list) and join #ubuntu from there

**sayakb** · June 6th, 2008

>>> /help for a list of commands (or in some clients: /commands).

**niceguy123** · June 6th, 2008

I'm in xchat. and I signuo up at www.magic-league.com

why am I getting this?

Code:

 Looking up irc.freenode.net..
 Connecting to chat.freenode.net (216.165.191.52) port 8001..
 Connected. Now logging in..
 *** Looking up your hostname...
 *** Found your hostname, welcome back
 *** Checking ident
 *** No identd (auth) response

**django0909** · June 6th, 2008

Try opening port 113 on your router, (if you have one). It's to do with the IRC server asking for identification from xchat and xchat not being able to get a response back.