Re: problem connecting with mIRC

On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:10:31PM -0700, Ron Robbins Jr. wrote:
> If this is the wrong list for this, I apologize. 
> Anyway, I always connect to random blitzed servers
> with irc.blitzed.org, and after I'm all logged on and
> everything, the server completely stops responding,
> but I never get disconnected or anything.

You do, I saw you ping out several times.

> This has
> happened with a lot of versions of mIRC, but i kind of
> disreguarded it, because cookies.* would always let me
> on fine, until recently.

cookies is no longer linked...  its DNS name is pointing back to
other servers.

> I'm sure it's not a script
> problem, or anything, because it still happens using a
> raw mIRC installation.  This doesn't happen anywhere
> but with Blitzed, and happens reguardless of how many
> servers I'm connected to.  I have cable now, but this
> also happened when I had dialup, so I don't think any
> problems arose from that change either.

What you're talking about now is a very old bug in bahamut, which
many peoiple could reproduce.  But I haven't seen that in ages.

> Also, I'm
> using Sygate's personal firewall, but since I can get
> on other servers fine, I don't think that's the
> problem either.

Are you sure?  Blitzed's BOPMs are quite a bit more thorough than
other networks' proxy checkers and we have had reports of people
with personal firewalls blocvking traffic from the IRC server's IP
because of it.

> Was there some recent code that was excluded from
> cookies.* at first, or something?

Not to my knowledge.  I'd still bet on the firewall at this stage.

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