Forums Connection Issues SER Unknown Command

Everytime I try to connect to a particular network with mIRC I keep getting this error.

-qld-chat.bigpond.com- Looking up the hostname for 139.134.5.88...
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-qld-chat.bigpond.com- Successfully resolved your IP to **.***.**.**.
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-qld-chat.bigpond.com- Please wait while your system is scanned for insecure proxy servers...
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-qld-chat.bigpond.com- No open proxies were found on your system.
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SER Unknown command.

I can connect to it using differnt IRC clients and can connect to it using mIRC with proxies, but when I connect to it with my isp it just won't connect.

Any ideas?

SER Unknown command.

That looks like you have a script that send a command to the server, the command is not bounded to any aliases, try look for

raw 421:*:

or

$numeric == 421

or

421 == $numeric

Can be found in your remote (ALT + R) in mirc.

and see if it's a halt somewhere there, or simply reinstall mirc without any scripts and try connect again and see if it works.

;------- Edit

You can also search for:

on :connect: {

and see where the command SER is sent from, then ether remove it or use a ; to stop it from trigger when connecting:

on :connect: {
command
command
;ser
command
}

Yeah I have been using a straight copy of mIRC no scripts or anything. I can connect to every other network but I just can't connect to that network, and now there is also an extra message now that says

ONG: Unknown Command.

I have no idea.

Type the following command, then try connecting again:

/remote off

-genius_at_work

Just tried it and it didn't make any difference.

In any window, type this command and post the results in this forum:

//echo -a $script(0) $dll(0) $os $version $md5($mircexe,2)

-genius_at_work

This is what I got

1 0 Vista 6.34 89b1e9d899bbbc243dc43cfb7577a5d2

Have you tried updating to the lastest version of mIRC?

-genius_at_work

Does this still happen if you connect to IRC on a port other than 6667? How about via SSL?

I was using the latest version of mIRC but I ended up going back to this one to see if the newest one was the problem.

I don't know how to connect using ssl, but the connection problem is spread across all ports the network uses.

What ports are those? Does the problem occur on other networks or just that one?

It's only on that particular network, every other one I have tried to connect to works fine.

Then I'd suggest asking the people who run that IRC server for assistance. My guess was that it's a problem with your router/modem firmware or some firewall software, but if other networks work fine that seems unlikely.

Make sure you've tried connecting via port 7000: /server qld-chat.bigpond.com 7000
If it still doesn't work, type /!quote TEST in the status window while connecting and see if it gives an unknown command error for "TEST" or just "EST".

Yeah I've tried connecting via port 7000 and still the same problem.

-> Server: TEST
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TEST Unknown command.

That looks ok too so I don't know. I guess I'll just have to talk to the admins and see what they come up with.

Thanks for the help everyone.