The problem I see here is that irc.alice.net uses 6667 and irc.bob.edu uses +6697, but for some reason mIRC tries to connect to irc.alice.net +6697 which could be anything. Why would mIRC try to connect to alice using bob's arbitrary SSL port? Or does mIRC know about "+6697" as some default SSL port? Shouldn't mIRC develop an aversion to connecting to alice entirely?
