mIRC wont run nowdays

[AztraGoth]

Closing Link: AztraGoth[unknown@h9n2fls309o1100.telia.com] (K-lined: Abusive client)


What does it mean that I have an abusive client? I dl mIRC from the offical website....im so confused

EDIT: Nevermind...I managed to log in on irc.swipnet.se

[ March 01, 2004, 23:10: Message edited by: AztraGoth ]

[Arryn]

I was getting similar junk. The problem is specifically with the IRCnet servers. I suspect that someone hacked them ...

[Gandalf Parker]

http://www.user-com.undernet.org/documents/k-gline.txt

It may just be that the sites are getting heavy at banning ISPs. It might not be you. It might be Telia.net that is getting blocked.

ALso I think alot of them have added reverse-lookup in order to enforce their blocks against hackers that can change their machine names. Alot of ISPs arent very good at setting up reverse lookups on their IPs

[Arryn]

It'd be incredible if they blocked swbell.net, my ISP domain, since swbell.net is a part of a *major* ISP, SBC ...

What's more likely is that they've screwed up lookbacks for anyone behind a router.

[ March 01, 2004, 23:37: Message edited by: Arryn ]

[Gandalf Parker]

they can lock out large blocks of an ISP without blocking the whole thing.

As to routers, whether or not that properly handles reverse lookups isnt under the control of the IRC server. Its at the router end

[Arryn]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:
As to routers, whether or not that properly handles reverse lookups isnt under the control of the IRC server. Its at the router end <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">If someone (like myself) was connecting just fine to a server, for weeks, and then suddenly I (and many others) cannot, the fault lies on the other end ...

[alexti]

Are you allowing TCP/113 in and do you allow ident in your IRC client? Many IRC servers do ident, if there's no response they may decide to "ban" you (not you in particular, but rather clients who has 113 blocked, or not responding to ident).

[Arryn]

Originally posted by alexti:
Are you allowing TCP/113 in and do you allow ident in your IRC client? Many IRC servers do ident, if there's no response they may decide to "ban" you (not you in particular, but rather clients who has 113 blocked, or not responding to ident). <font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Ident is on. I'll have to check on the port ...

EDIT: I added TCP/113 to the router table and that fixed the problem! Thanks! In my defense, it was working fine until IRCnet must have updated their end to start checking. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/rolleyes.gif

[ March 02, 2004, 01:16: Message edited by: Arryn ]