Re: [Erc-discuss] Why I cannot connect to freenode irc server?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2008 15:42:25 +0800, Misskiss <address@hidden> wrote:
> Dear all,
> When I use M-x erc, I got the following error, can anyone please help?
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "make client process failed" 
> "connection refused" :name "erc-irc.freenode.net-6667" :buffer nil :host 
> "irc.freenode.net" :service 6667)
>   make-network-process(:name "erc-irc.freenode.net-6667" :buffer nil :host 
> "irc.freenode.net" :service 6667)
>   open-network-stream("erc-irc.freenode.net-6667" nil "irc.freenode.net" 6667)
>   erc-server-connect("irc.freenode.net" 6667 #<buffer irc.freenode.net:6667>)
>   erc-open("irc.freenode.net" 6667 "misskiss" "unknown" t "family")
>   erc(:server "irc.freenode.net" :port 6667 :nick "misskiss" :password 
> "*****")
>   call-interactively(erc t nil)
>   execute-extended-command(nil)
>   call-interactively(execute-extended-command nil nil)

It looks like irc.freenode.net is not accessible from your client host.
Can you try running from a shell prompt the command:

    host irc.freenode.net

If this works and you can correctly resolve the hostname to an IP
address, then try connecting directly to the IRC server port with:

    telnet irc.freenode.net 6667

If this fails, then try one of the alternate IRC server ports, like
10000.