[Asterisk-Users] freenode #asterisk IRC channel identd problem

[Steven Critchfield]

On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 14:54, Nathan Alpert wrote:
> Sorry to ask this question here since it's related to IRC and not
> Asterisk, but I am having trouble logging into the #asterisk IRC channel
> on freenode and was wondering if anyone else has had this problem and
> solved it.
> 
> So here's the situation: Whenever I try to login to the #asterisk
> channel I get a message like "you must be identified to login to this
> channel." So after doing a little research on this, I found that the
> identity thing is related to the "identd" server used to identify
> computers on a network. Apparently in Linux there is some identd server
> thing that needs to be configured so I didn't mess with this and used
> mIRC on Windows which has a identd server built into the program. I have
> my firewall forwarding port 113 to the computer running mIRC (which is
> apparently needed to listen for the identd requests) and the SOB still
> gives me the same message and I can't get into the #asterisk channel.
> 
> Has anyone else had this problem and solved it? 

search THIS list to find that you must be registered to nickserv to get
in the channel. It has been discussed many times and at length. 
-- 
Steven Critchfield  <critch at basesys.com>