On 2004.05.21, Adam Leff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strangely enough, I have never been able to connect to freenode while > at the AOL offices. The DNS lookup succeeds, but the connections are > always refused. In order to connect, I have to proxy my IRC connection > through some other co-lo servers I have back at the University I > attended.
My guess is that the PIX firewall at AOL doesn't allow outbound on 6667/tcp. From the AOL offices, 6667/tcp to any host gets a RST. > So I'm not sure those of us actually at AOL would be able to > participate unless someone figures out what's going on there. I highly doubt we could convince the network security folks to open that port for outbound traffic through the firewall -- but, maybe we could. It's just a pity that AOL IM and AIM don't Do The Right Thing with regard to Group Chat. In other words: if we use AIM, then even AOL employees need to use AIM -- they can't join the chat from within the AOL client, either. But this is a far simpler problem to solve than proxying IRC through the firewall. :-) -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70) -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
