Unable to connect to freenode

[Terence Simpson]

Stew Schneider wrote:
> D. R. Evans wrote:
>   
>> Jonathan Riddell said the following at 12/12/2007 03:19 PM :
>>   
>>     
>>> Meeting is in 40 minutes on #ubuntu-meeting.
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> So I thought I'd log in and kibbitz.
>>
>> It's been at least 10 years since I last used IRC (actually, now I think
>> about it, probably more like 15), but I quickly created an IRC account in
>> Kopete and tried to connect. And received:
>>
>> ----
>>
>> (16:17:36)  #  Connecting to irc.kde.org...
>> (16:17:37)  #  NOTICE from irc.kde.org: *** Looking up your hostname...
>> (16:17:37)  #  NOTICE from irc.kde.org: *** Found your hostname, welcome back
>> (16:17:37)  #  NOTICE from irc.kde.org: *** Checking ident
>> (16:17:45)  #  NOTICE from irc.kde.org: *** No identd (auth) response
>>
>> ----
>>
>> I tried several times to connect, and it said the same thing each time.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get past this?
>>
>>   Doc
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>> PS Yes, I've googled.
>>   
>>     
> I don't IRC either, but isn't that notifying you that you have port 113 
> blocked at the router?
>
> stew
>
>
>   
Freenode doesn't require you to have 113/auth open/running, it just
check if you do.

Terence