IRC on X Chat

**vwgtiturbo** · 10-14-2003, 11:02 PM

I was attempting to get on IRC on the advice of some folks here, and was wondering if the server was correct, or if it is down, or something...
the server was 'abtg.homeunix.org Port 6668'

every time I enter this, it tries to connect to port 0. If I enter no port number, it goes after port 6667. I can ping abtg.homeunix.org just fine, but I can't figure out why it won't connect to the right port...

**gaxprels** · 10-14-2003, 11:22 PM

on X Chat, you can do this:
create a new server and call it "GLO" or something similar
select it then choose "Edit mode" and you can set what port and address to connect to from there.

**trommaster** · 10-17-2003, 05:10 AM

in the server list,
abtg.homeunix.org/6668

or in the xchat window,
/server abtg.homeunix.org 6668

**sujoki** · 10-17-2003, 01:15 PM

yep. doesnt matter what you use, i suggest once you know how to do it manually you do it in the list, then you can make it autoload.

**trommaster** · 10-19-2003, 09:48 AM

i think its more the fact that:
/server blah.ip 1234
not
/server nlah.ip Port 1234
which um, sortta doesn't work

**sujoki** · 10-19-2003, 05:12 PM

yes that could be it.

Syn · 12-03-2003, 10:53 PM

Speaking of XChat, and so on, not on abtg, but on another net so a little off topic. ICQ's servers tried to put in a 'proxy server' I think [they called it upgrades, I called it trying to crash the net], and I found that XChat wouldn't connect unless I turned off the 'use a proxy server'. Now every other IRC server in existence that I've used has not had a problem with this setting. It still takes about 5 minutes to connect, and no other linux clients will connect that I've tried. mIRC under wine didn't have a problem at all *sighs* Any ideas what could be the culprit other than admins owned by aohell?

And yup, the default port for XChat is 6667 if left unspecified. ;P