irc question

Whiskey · Post by **Whiskey** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 11:14 pm

Hey guys. I haven't ever tried to use #bzflag until recently, but I can't find irc.freenode.net. Is is still the same or has it changed? Also, is this still where we should meet before matches? While I've been playing the game for a while, I've never needed to use this channel until now. Thanks for your help.

-Whiskey

Post by **menotume** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:03 am

Yes, it is still irc.freenode.net. I may not show up on the list of servers, just add it. There is also a new channel #bzleague, which is more suited for league stuff, so as to offload some of the #bzflag traffic for the developers. What irc program are you using ?

|tim| · Post by **|tim|** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 12:17 am

What IRC client are you using?

Whiskey · Post by **Whiskey** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 7:12 am

I'm using ircle version 3.1.

Whiskey · Post by **Whiskey** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 7:15 am

Also, it finds the ip adress but times out before it connects.

|tim| · Post by **|tim|** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 7:21 am

hmm, I've never used that.
If its a problem setting it up check out...
http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/mac/ircle_setup.html

But it sounds like something else

SGI · Post by **SGI** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 3:59 pm

If you have Mac OS X you can to try xchat for mac....
X-Chat Aqua

Homonculus · Post by **Homonculus** » Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:36 pm

I use AthenaIRC 2.1

Chestal · Post by **Chestal** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:04 pm

Whiskey wrote:Also, it finds the ip adress but times out before it connects.

In case the default port of 6667 is blocked for some reason (maybe you can test that), port 7000 should also work for the freenode irc servers.

Noodleroni · Post by **Noodleroni** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:35 pm

/me uses MacIrssi

Whiskey · Post by **Whiskey** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 5:37 pm

thanks for your help guys, but I've come to the conclusion that Mizzou has fire-walled irc usage. At first I thought I just couldn't connect to #bzflag, but as it turns out I can't connect to any servers or channels. I don't know why they would do that, but it's not the first thing they've done that makes no sense. For instance, file sharing is only possible between midnight and four a.m. unless you use bittorrent.

Well, thanks again. I'll just have to come up with something else for now.

SGI · Post by **SGI** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 6:16 pm

Pigeon

Post by **menotume** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 5:04 am

Isn't there a webpage somewhere that allows limited irc chat using a Java applet? Does anyone have the addy?

david_v · Post by **david_v** » Tue Mar 16, 2004 8:37 am

Yeah. I gave him this link already:

http://strayer.de/index.php?lang=eng&site=bzflag

Post by **blast** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 2:20 pm

Here's another:
http://stats.bzflag.org/cgi-bin/ircchat/irc.cgi

Post by **learner** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:23 pm

And yet another:
http://brlcad.org/irc/

Cheers!

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