Re: [squid-users] can't connect to the irc...

From: Martin Maciaszek <mmaciaszek@dont-contact.us>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 13:03:24 +0100

--On Sunday, December 09, 2001 09:24:56 PM +0800 Irvin S Panes
<nirvi_cecg@edsamail.com.ph> wrote:

> eversince i setup squid as a proxy server my clients cannot connect to
> the irc. I am using mirc and had never experience this before i setup one
> of my box to act as a proxy server in my homenetwork.
>
> I did not change the defaults in the squid.conf, i just added a few acl
> lines and redirect program to squidguard. What do i need to do to allow
> my clients to access connect to the irc.
>
>
You probably opened your squid to the outside world. There have been some
people exploiting those open proxies on irc. Some irc operators implemented
a proxy scan on connect. When the irc server detects an open proxy it won't
let you in.

Check your configuration

Cheers
Martin
Received on Mon Dec 10 2001 - 04:59:47 MST

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