connection time out

[Ben Hallett]

Thank you for your reply, but I checked the firewall and even tried it with
the firewall off but I the connection still times out. I am using the
server irc.freenode.net.

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 9:18 AM, David Woolley
<forums at david-woolley.me.uk>wrote:

> Ben Hallett wrote:
>
>> I am unable to connect to irc as when I try it says that the connection
>> has timed out. what should i do to fix this.
>>
>
> Provide the correct address for the server, or open the firewall for
> connections to that server.
>
> I would suggest that the most common cause of timed out connections is
> firewalls set to silently drop traffic that they don't like.
>
>
>
> --
> David Woolley
> Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
> RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
> that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
>
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