Actually, you should not have to use SOCKS at all. The firewalls were fixed some time ago to allow such a connection out (indeed that's how I have pidgin configured). It looks to ,me like we still have not got all of the DNS's doing the right thing. If the client used the IP address, it should work.
alan. Darren Reed wrote: > Glynn Foster wrote: > >> Hey, >> >> Cathy Zhou wrote: >> >> >>> I got the following errors when I tried the web client: >>> >>> "Connecting... >>> Unable to connect : java.net.UnknownHostException : irc.freenode.net" >>> >>> Did I miss anything obvious? >>> >>> >> Unfortunately that's the firewall kicking into action. I don't know any easy >> way >> around that for SWAN only employees. >> >> > > Ideally you should be able to use one of the SOCKS proxies for this. > > I hate to say this, but when using M$ Windows, I believe that > all of the TCP connections out are SOCKSified with Java - so > long as you have SOCKS configured via Internet Exploder. > > I haven't been able to find an easy to do this for Un*x yet. > > The best bet is to find a SOCKSified IRC client for Solaris. > > Darren > > _______________________________________________ > core-contrib-discuss mailing list > core-contrib-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/core-contrib-discuss -- Alan Hargreaves - http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta Staff Engineer (Kernel/VOSJEC/Performance) Systems Technical Support Centre Sun Microsystems
