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Re: BitchX and IP address



On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 02:12:14PM -0500, Subba Rao wrote:
> The BitchX on my system works fine for most of my accounts.
> One account is not able to connect to any of the IRC servers on
> any IRC nets. The user and the client go with an IP address
> that does not exist. 
> 
>  Connecting to port 6667 of server irc.efnet.org [refnum 0]
>  Closing Link: user1[~user1@129.37.44.109] irc.concentric.net (No authorization: -2)
>  Connection closed from irc.efnet.org: Success
> 
> I do not know how the IP address 129.37.44.109 came about. I have recompiled
> my BitchX and the same problem persists. I have deleted ~/user1/.BitchX and it
> still continues.
> 
> My system has squid but it is only for caching purposes. There is no IRC related
> blocks.
> 
> Any pointers appreciated.

Hmm...

----------------------snip--------------------------------------------
adi@fred:~$ nslookup 129.37.44.109
Server:  actcom.co.il
Address:  192.114.47.1

Name:    slip-129-37-44-109.mi.us.prserv.net
Address:  129.37.44.109
----------------------snip--------------------------------------------

Trivial pointers, but just to cover the bases...

IIRC, the user logging into an IRC server states their IP address
inside the IRC protocol. Could this alone be wrong here, or is this an
IP-level problem?

Is masquerading in use? Port-forwarding?

Is the wrong IP reported even when connecting to localhost? Or
somewhere inside huji? Maybe it's a routing problem outside huji...

Is it BitchX-specific? IRC-specific? Port-specific?

	- Adi Stav

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