Forums Connection Issues irc in university

hi all,
I have a small problem. I want to use irc in uni port the ports ar closed. kann get around the firewall? change the client ports or somthing else???

please help. ist so boring in uni if i cant chat up some people

thx mac-d

no u cannot use irc when the ports are closed by your university

If your college has IRC disabled, it's because they don't want you on IRC. Some schools not only disallow it, if you go around it you can face expulsion and you will have to pay for the bandwidth your IRC connection uses (and bandwidth on a T1 or T3 is NOT cheap).

In addition to what codemastr said, on this forum we wont help you evade the policies your school/business has.

Huuh .. I posted my answer recently .. But now i don't see it
I just say if you university have a proxy .. You can [deleted by moderator again for the reasons given in Watchdog's post and mine]

Look at what Parabrat posted and see why yours was deleted.

There's three issues that come with using your method.

1. Does that software connect to proxies in which the owner authorises such connections? If not then chances are the user of the software is breaking the law and if you connect to a server in a given country you are subject to the laws of that country as well as your own.

2. The university in question obviously prohibits on-line chat in any form, otherwise they would not single out the IRC ports when choosing what to block. If someone gets around this in some way, such as the one you suggest, then they are liable to expulsion from the institution if and when caught.

3. IRC networks look dimly at connections from proxies. Insecure proxies can be dealt with easily because the software can quickly discover it. Some networks ban the use of all proxies unless you are either the owner or authorised by the owner to use it.

So at the very least the user can look forward to being banned, notwithstanding the fact that the user is connected to what could be an untrustworthy machine, therefore is also a security risk. If you are just repeating what you said originally then your post was rightly removed.