Originally Posted By: John80sk
The main problem with that thread is it has around a hundred solutions to a hundred problems who's only similarity is a 5 digit number.

I have the same problem as fxchain. I'm running vista and am on a netgear router, I believe it's this model

I know the problem has nothing to do with my laptop, as I can run mIRC on just about any other connection than mine.

I've tried port forwarding with a static ip, it worked for about a day. Also when I got back from leave, it worked for a couple days after being shut down for 2 weeks.

The problem also affects all other IRC programs that I've tried.

I also noticed that I get the following message when I first try to connect:

irc.freenode.net- *** Looking up your hostname
irc.freenode.net- *** Checking Ident
irc.freenode.net- *** Couldn't look up your hostname
irc.freenode.net- *** No Identd (auth) response

I'm not sure what it normally says, but I'm pretty sure that's not it.


you said you forwarded your ports, but did you forward port 113 (identd)? the 'no identd response' leads me to beleive that either the identd port is not forwarded or identd is turned off. what does this return when you type it?:
Code:
//echo -a $readini(mirc.ini,ident,active)

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