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

[Misskiss]

Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden> writes:

> 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.
I have tried "telnet irc.freenode.net 6667", get the following errors:

Trying 213.219.249.66...
telnet: connect to address 213.219.249.66: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 140.211.166.4: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 85.188.1.26: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 207.158.1.150: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 216.155.130.130: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 89.16.176.16: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 140.211.166.3: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 128.237.157.136: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 209.177.146.34: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 130.237.188.200: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 204.11.244.21: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 82.96.64.4: Connection refused
telnet: connect to address 64.161.254.20: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused

I think maybe I use a firewall, but I have no access to change
it... Thanks a lot.
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