On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:26:12PM -0600, Caleb Jorden wrote:
Yes, as I recall there is a virus that uses port 6667, and that was blocked at the firewall. If there is a very big need for that to work, you can voice it on this list and the appropriate party will notice.
I'll admit that I didn't check through the service announcements about IRC blocking until after I had wasted too much time on it, but I didn't find anything.
It's not the first time I ever wasted time on a secret firewall configuration change. It too bad these things are hard to debug from where the users sit.
Don
They are usually fairly easy to debug if you take the approach that it is safe to assume your computer is not the problem. Always assume the problem is at the firewall or the routers or whatever...it's usually a safe bet in my experience...especially in the dorms.
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