IRC Problems

[Trynant]

Recently I have been unable to connect to IRC, trying both xChat and mIRC. The error I notices involved "dns pool."

Is anyone else unable to connect? Is IRC down and has stayed down for a while? Is there anything I can do that I have no clue about?

Hope someone knows the answer to even one of these questions and will respond.

 

[ShakeZula]

can you give the exact error message? if it's an error related to the dns pool i guess try a different server. which network are you trying to connect to? can you connect to any others?

 

[Gryph]

Never seen that problem before, so checked google:

"DNS Pool" is not an error, it just means that the named address you are connecting to maps to several different numeric (IP) addresses, any of which would connect you to the network"

It would seem that that's just a notice that the server you're connecting to is a rotator. Did you get any other sort of error? Can you post the connection status log? What server are you trying to connect to? Can you tell us more about your connection (eg. is it a connection on which certain things may be filtered)?

 

[Trynant]

UGH UGH UGH

Bleck, sorry about updating this, I think I blocked it out of my mind I even made a thread

You're right, dns pool is not an error, the error I'm getting is a connection timed out error.
Here's verbatim what the log says on mIRC.

*Connecting to irc.enterthegame.com (6667)
*Unable to connect to server (Connection timed out)
*Connect retry #1 irc.enterthegame.com (6667) (dns pool)
*Unable to connect to server (Connection timed out)
*Connect retry #2 ....

And it goes on like that. XChat isn't working either. So yeah. Maybe I'm trying the wrong port?

 

[ShakeZula]

the port is correct. try connecting to a different alias in the dns pool? for instance

/server euro.enterthegame.com

 

[Trynant]

the port is correct. try connecting to a different alias in the dns pool? for instance

/server euro.enterthegame.com

nope, same problem

EDIT: Also tried checking if my firewall was preventing connections, nope, it's allowing full access to mIRC and Xchat

 

[ShakeZula]

weird. this just seemed to start happening without cause? i guess you don't recall installing/configuring any network software recently? specifically add port 6667 to your firewall exceptions and if you know how to open ports in your router do it there too. though i don't think that either of those will work cuz ports don't randomly close themselves... give it a shot though

also out of interest try /server irc.quakenet.org

 

[Trynant]

quakenet works, but then again it's a different port. I'm going to see about opening port 6667, though I have no clue how that'll work...

UPDATE: Can't find anything that's working with my firewall. In anything that looks like port exceptions I've added 6667, but still nothing

I don't know how to open a port from a router here, mainly because I'm on a college campus and it's not exactly my router I'm using.

 

[Trynant]

New problem! I've turned off my firewall for 15 minutes to see if this will work. Here's the new error message I've received.

Unable to connect to server (Network is unreachable)

But now it's going back to (connection timed out) as the error. So eh. Still stumped on how to fix this.

 

[ShakeZula]

sounds like the port is blocked by the router, at least i can't think of any other explanation. if this is the case you won't be able to fix it any way you can ask your network administrator about it?

 

[Trynant]

sounds like the port is blocked by the router, at least i can't think of any other explanation. if this is the case you won't be able to fix it any way you can ask your network administrator about it?

I guess I could try finding out who the network administrator is on the campus . That might take a few days to get around to.

Sheesh, it's almost not worth talking to you guys on irc

 

[ShakeZula]

if you have a computer with broadband back home you could set up a VPN connection and use that to access IRC

maybe your network admin will tell you that the port isn't blocked, and then it's simply a matter of finding someone smarter than me to advise you!

 

[Trynant]

Simple solution, I just changed the port I was connecting to enterthegame on (6667 to 6668), and it works. I don't know why the server is blocking (or are they?) 6667, but whatever.