Re: Connection problems

Elliot Anderson <[email protected]> (06-02-01 16:45:00):

> 16:40:15 !irc.gnu.org *** Looking up your hostname...
> 16:40:15 !irc.gnu.org *** Found your hostname, welcome back
> 16:40:15 !irc.gnu.org *** Checking ident
> 16:40:21 -!- Irssi: Connection lost to irc.gnu.org

Your username might be the cause for the trouble.  Check the setting
'user_name' and the corresponding per-network setting (the -user option
to /network).  It should, for example, not be set to 'root' or things
like 'www' or 'proxy'.  Just try to change it to something that is
related to you like 'elliot' or similar.  By the way, if it is set to
'root' and you didn't do this yourself, then you seem to be using irssi
as root.  This is bad, you shouldn't do this.  And to try to prevent
users from doing that, many servers ban the 'root' username by default.

Regards.


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