Re: Connection problems

Managed to find out the problem.

The server_connect_timeout had somehow been changed and was set too
low so once i fixed that it let me connect.

Thanks for the help anyway!

On 2/1/06, Ertugrul Soeylemez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Elliot Anderson <[email protected]> (06-02-01 16:45:00):
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> > 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
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> 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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