Wouter Vijvers wrote:
> Hi,
> I use mozilla now as my main browser and a couple of weeks ago I wanted
> to ask some questions about bugs, so I went to the #mozillazine channel
> on irc.mozilla.org using ChatZilla (on BugDay). It was the first time I
> used an IRC client. I spent about an hour there and Asa answered some
> questions and all was fine. But the next time I got the following
> message, when trying to connect:
> -------------
> Connecting to irc.mozilla.org:6667, attempt 20 of 20...
> ===*** Looking up your hostname...
> ===*** Found your hostname, cached
> ===*** Checking Ident
> ===*** No Ident response
> ===*** Banned: Wingate proxy (2001/06/25 23.43)
> [ERROR]Closing Link: Woutepout[[EMAIL PROTECTED]] (Banned)
> [ERROR]Could not connect to moznet (irc.mozilla.org).
> [INFO]Connection to irc.mozilla.org:6667 closed with status 0.
> -------------
> I first I thought it was a glitch or something, but I still can't
> connect. What did I do to get banned from irc.mozilla.org??
>
> Greets,
> Wouter
>
> P.S. I hope I don't get banned from this newsgroup! ;)
>
You might have an open socks5 proxy that you are not aware of (even
though you have a firewall) Telnet to your ip address on port 1080 and
see if it accepts connections.... and if it does... that is your problem.
