Banned from TPF Chat

[duncanp]

... Banned for no reason again...

why do u get banned?

 

[duncanp]

Heeeelp lol what this?

it also says sometihng about registering :S

 

[Chase]

Someone with more IRC experience than me needs to take a look at this...

 

[ferny]

6-8 Why am I unidentified and what does it matter ?

An ident server normally is maintained by the Unix machine of your network provider... It is a kind of nameserver that guarantees your Identity. Since most standalone windows machines are not correctly backed up by an ident service, such a server is built into mIRC. IRC servers can do an Ident request to your Ident server and then expect a standardized kind of answer. More and more IRC servers require you to be identified in some way, and they will disconnect you if you're not identified ! Also if you don't react, or do so in the wrong way, they can decide to disconnect you.... You can check if you're properly identified by doing a /whois on yourself. The first line in the reply should NOT contain a ~ (tilde) or a - (minus). If you have a ~ or - in it try activating the Ident server.

mIRC's built-in Ident server can be switched to active under File/options/Connect/Identd/. Set it to :
User ID: (The part before the @ in your E-mail address normally)
System: UNIX (ALWAYS fill in UNIX !! not dos, win or *whatever* else !!)
Listen on port: 113 (The standard ident port number)

A problem that Proxy and Firewall users will experience is that, despite checking the Ident Server to active, mIRC will never reply to an Ident query. This is because mIRC might never get the ident request! The proxy or firewall won't pass the Ident request through from the IRC server to mIRC... That just means you'll be seen as [email protected] which is not the end of the world, unless you happen to be using a server that requires an Ident reply and disconnects you... This can't be solved by mIRC or any other client. You will need to fix the settings of your proxy or firewall, find another server or get your provider to set up proper identing... trv

http://www.mirc.com/faq6.html#section6-8

That's from the mIRC site and even though you're not using it it should help you a little.
Check your fire wall etc and if it's working fine then someone needs to look at that script and see if it can do that ident command.

Is it only you who has this problem though?

 

[Chase]

We're gonna try switching over to irc.freenode.net

Give that one a try, I just registered there.

 

[duncanp]

ferny thanks for all your help but its sorted now