IRC users read this please

[etank]

If you use irc then you may want to look at this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FixDCCExploit. If you make the changes that it suggests then it could save you some trouble in the long run.

[etank]

Here is another link that discusses the issue of DCC attacks. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue27. It is toward the bottom of the page.

[etank]

IRC is short for Internet Relay Chat. If you have never used IRC before then I would recommend starting with Xchat. Xchat has a nice easy to use grpahical interface.

Here are some links that will help you get started.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/XChatHowto
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/new2irc.html

Please be sure to change the default port from 6667 to 8001. See the previous posts for more information on this.

[kambrik]

I seem to be having trouble connecting to the freenode.net

IRC Server: freenode.net
Ports: 8001

Any suggestions?

[X-626]

Not sure if it will help you or not (I don't know the port number), but try changing the server to irc.freenode.net.

[kambrik]

Yep that was the key, thanx.

[annihilus06]

Thanks for the heads up, etank. Although i hadn't had it happen yet, im sure it was in my near destiny.