Thank you for your reply, but I checked the firewall and even tried it with the firewall off but I the connection still times out. I am using the server irc.freenode.net.
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:18 AM, David Woolley <for...@david-woolley.me.uk>wrote: > Ben Hallett wrote: > >> I am unable to connect to irc as when I try it says that the connection >> has timed out. what should i do to fix this. >> > > Provide the correct address for the server, or open the firewall for > connections to that server. > > I would suggest that the most common cause of timed out connections is > firewalls set to silently drop traffic that they don't like. > > > > -- > David Woolley > Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. > RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam, > that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work. >
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