i guess i forgot to mention that i am on the IT staff.......
but anyways...yes we dont have a firewall...and im prolly sure you would find it hard to blv that a campus like us...doesnt have a hardware firewall....but its true....true indeed...for some reason our department only gets the bare minimiums....they dont think its effective enough to have a firewall
that is why our server(s) started messin up....at the beginnin of the year....alot of students computers (mainly freshman) were pingin the server....and taking up alot of bandwidth....turns out it was viruses pingin the server and all the bandwidth was due to major trojan horses.....but now that our school has had to deal with that....they are just now considering a firewall or should i say giving our department enough money to get a decent firewall
and yes i know this is not an unusual problem.....but with a nonfirewalled connection...... i would think irc would be able to connect......but its not...
