IRC at work

[apomb]

They've blocked the ports, IRC is proving difficult to access while at work/school (i work at my school)

this makes me sad.

[rdrake]

If you have another remote machine you can set up an SSH tunnel to it and connect that way.

[apomb]

i do... my desktop at home.

i'ma look into that. i think ive done that before, but its been a while.

mind possibly refreshing me on how to set that up?

Edit: found a tutorial, and it is as i remember, so i'll follow that, and let you know in the channel if it works.

[Dan]

You could also set up an IRC bouncer on ports that are not blocked.

Also some IRC networks offer none stanadard ports that might work.


Edit: If this is for afternet, they offer ssl connection to the irc servers on 9998 and the ports 6667, 7000, and 16667 should be open for normal connections.

[apomb]

thanks dan, its for connecting to the compsci channel on afternet

Also, whats with this: http://irc.afternet.org/ ??

[Dan]

apomb @ 23rd June 2009, 1:56 pm wrote:

Also, whats with this: http://irc.afternet.org/ ??

It's hard to tell as that url is a round robin to any afternet server. It's not ment for http conections so the results of putting it into a browesr could be a bit random if some servers don't have a proper vhost set up for it.

Your broser caches the IP it gets so you proably won't see somthing diffrent each time you refresh, but diffrent host look ups get diffrent IPs so i proably am not seeing the same thing as you.

[apomb]

Ah, good point, i was wondering why it said

Quote:

Due to an issue in our data center CompSci.ca will be down temporally.

We hope to back up ASAP so please bear with us. In the mean time you can check out our IRC room on the afternet IRC network:
Server: irc.afternet.org
Channel: #compsci.ca

[Dan]

I think i have that fixed now :p

Lumiere did not have the afternet vhost set.