On Thu Apr 15, 2021 at 1:06 AM BST, Bone Baboon wrote: > I am trying to connect to Freenode. This was working fine but now I am > receiving this error message: > > ``` > *** Notice -- You need to authenticate via sasl to use this server > !!! Closing link: <gateway-information> > (SASL access only) > !!! freenode: connection broken by remote peer (closed) > ``` > > The IRC client I am using is rcirc an Emacs IRC client. I have not > changed my rcirc configuration that was working. > > I am able to sign into Freenode without any trouble using Freenode's web > irc client. > > I have tried adding the `gnutls`, `gsasl` and `cyrus-sasl` packages to > my system configuration and reconfiguring. These packages do not fix > this problem. > > The Emacs version is `27.2`.
Are you using tor? Because only certain forms of SASL authentication are supported on tor. https://freenode.net/news/tor-online >>= %frosku = { os => 'gnu+linux', editor => 'emacs', coffee => 1 } =<<
