Wouter Vijvers wrote:
>
> Ok, helpfull stuff here! I do have a socks5 proxy, but I'm well aware of
> it! I installed it myself (a long time ago). What does this have to do
> with connecting to the irc-server? It's on a different port (6667). And
> more importantly: is this the result of a misconfiguration that I'm NOT
> aware of?
The irc server is checking for your socks proxy because you can be
exploited easily once someone sees you on irc. Having an option socks
proxy on your machine means anyone can tunnel their internet traffic
through your machine, or make it look like things are coming from you.
You should stop the socks server accepting connections from all.
Phil
