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[0perator]

right..

 

 

this is nothing to do with php

 

but i dont know any other place with such a wealth of knowledge as here.

 

i set up an irc server on my ubuntu machine..

 

i can do /server localhost

 

and it works fine

 

but when i try and do /server uberbeef.org it says

 

* Looking up uberbeef.org

* Connecting to uberbeef.org (86.150.246.184) port 6667...

* Connection failed. Error: Connection refused

* Disconnected ().

 

please help

[trq]

Is uberbeef.org your domain? if so, is it listed in your /etc/hosts file? eg;

 

127.0.0.1 uberbeef.org

[Daniel0]

Make sure it is listening not only to local connections.

[0perator]

uberbeef is in the hosts file

 

how do i make it look for external connections?

 

thanks.

[0perator]

oh jeeez

 

ubebreef WASNT in the hosts file

 

just the subdomains

 

sorry guys!

 

 

EDIT:

 

 

hang on, now it says this

 

 

*** Looking up your hostname...

* *** Checking Ident

* *** No Ident response

* *** Your forward and reverse DNS do not match, ignoring hostname.

* *** Spoofing your IP. congrats.

* *** You are exempt from K/D/G lines. congrats.

* *** You are exempt from user limits. congrats.

* Welcome to the uberbeef Internet Relay Chat Network Operator

* Your host is ubebreef[127.0.0.1/6667], running version hybrid-7.2.2.dfsg.2-debian.3

* This server was created Apr 30 2007 at 17:39:23

* ubebreef hybrid-7.2.2.dfsg.2-debian.3 DGabcdfgiklnorsuwxyz biklmnopstveIh bkloveIh

* CALLERID CASEMAPPING=rfc1459 DEAF=D KICKLEN=160 MODES=4 NICKLEN=15 PREFIX=(ohv)@%+ STATUSMSG=@%+ TOPICLEN=350 NETWORK=uberbeef MAXLIST=beI:25 MAXTARGETS=4 CHANTYPES=#& :are supported by this server

* CHANLIMIT=#&:15 CHANNELLEN=50 EXCEPTS=e INVEX=I CHANMODES=eIb,k,l,imnpst AWAYLEN=160 KNOCK ELIST=CMNTU SAFELIST :are supported by this server

* There are 0 users and 1 invisible on 1 servers

* I have 1 clients and 0 servers

* Current local users: 1  Max: 1

* Current global users: 1  Max: 1

[tomfmason]

When I ping uberbeef.org I do not get any responses. This may prevent external clients from connecting but I am not sure.

 

ping uberbeef.org
PING uberbeef.org (86.150.246.184) 56(84) bytes of data.
--- uberbeef.org ping statistics ---
76 packets transmitted, 0 received, 100% packet loss, time 75607ms

 

Also, I would check out jabber if I were you. IMO, it is 100x better than irc and  few hosts block those ports compared to an irc server. I like ejabberd and have been using it for almost a year now without any problems at all.

 

 

[tomfmason]

how do i make it look for external connections?

 

in your ircd.conf do something like

 

listen {
   ip="your external ip or domain name";
   port=6667;
};

 

The reason for the lack of response from pings could be that you may not be allowing ICMP ping requests. You can fix this by doing something like

 

iptables -A INPUT -p icmp -j ACCEPT

 

or

 

ACCEPT     icmp --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

 

Assuming you are using iptables. Also, this needs to come before any rule like this:

 

REJECT     all  --  0.0.0.0/0            0.0.0.0/0

[Daniel0]

@tomfmason & 0perator: The different IRCds have different ways of configuring it. You may have to consult the documentation instead.

[0perator]

this is what it says now

 

 

listen {

/* port: the specific port to listen on.  if no host is specified

* before, it will listen on all available IPs.

*

* ports are seperated via a comma, a range may be specified using ".."

*/

 

/* port: listen on all available IPs, ports 6665 to 6669 */

host = "uberbeef.org"; # change this!

port = 6667;

};

 

 

 

still getting connection refused...