On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: > > > A few weeks ago about three nice people from the Debian-user list helped > > me out with setting up & fixing my DNS server, which I am very thankful. > > Unfortunately I am now having problems with IRC which may or may not be > > related. > > > > When I try to connect to an IRC server, I get 'no authorization' errors > > because my system sends my IP instead of the hostname... It does the same > > for all the machines that IP Masquerade through me. > > > > On my system, I use ircii, epic, and kirc which all give the same results. > > On the machines using masquerading, I use mirc (win95).. same results. > > > > Are you loading the ip_masq_irc.o module? > > Bob Try nslookup on your system, but *also* try a reverse lookup, to see if the IP address maps back to the same hostname. If this doesn't work, IRC servers won't accept you I believe. Fred -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
