K,

Just an FYI for you.. my problem turned out to be the pctools firewall, it defaults to 'stelth' mode which blocks ident requests. So each time I upgade mIRC or any other software that requires ident ok, then i have to update that programs action in pctools firewall. Though you might want to add this to your list of possible resolutions to ident problems.

as ever,

HorseC

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