[Asterisk-Users] IRC channel #asterisk on irc.freenode.net

[jparr at bgcfreedom.com]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:

> On Friday 09 July 2004 06:54, Antti Lohikoski wrote:
> > 1. The irc.freenode.net server gives me "Couldn't look up your hostname"
> > and "No identd (auth) response" followed with "Closing Link: StiX
> > (Invalid username [~antti.loh])"
>
> This is *specifically* why I wish bkw (Brian West) would turn off that flag on
> the channel.
>
> In order to combat spam bots infiltrating the channel, it is set up to only
> allow freenode-registered nicknames.
>
> In order to register your nickname with freenode, send a "/msg nickserv help"
> command once you're on freenode.  NickServ is a Nickname Server bot -- it
> will let you register a nickname and set a password so your nickname can't be
> "stolen".
>
> Identd is *not* required.

Ok guys, enough FUD and wrong answers.

He cannot get on, because his USERNAME has invalid characters "antti.loh"
is not valid. You cannot have "." in your username. This is NOTHING to do
with the channel requiring you to register with nickserv, this is NOTHING
to do with ident.

Antti, in your IRC client, you are given a choice of nickname, and
realname/username. Make sure both of these are a-z/0-9, no special
characters. You should be fine.