Forums Connection Issues K-Lined

Hey
Everytime i try to connect to mIRC i get this error
-starhub.sg.austnet.org- (K) Banned from this server: Try_a_server_nearer_to_you
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*** (K) Try_a_server_nearer_to_you
What does it mean, and why cant i connect to the server i normally would? I've tried everything!

Hey there,

Firstly, you don't connect to mIRC, you connect to IRC with mIRC. mIRC has nothing to do with the individual channels, servers or networks that exist on IRC. They each have individual rules, services and indeed, bans (bans from a server are called K-Lines. Bans from an entire network are group of servers are called G-Lines). See this thread for further information.

The message there is saying "try a server closer to you" - in other words, a server that is located in your country or a country that is close to you. Let's assume that you live in Australia. If you connect to a server in the UK (it might have the country code .uk in the server name) then it might have *.au (Australia) K-lined with that message. Therefore, you need to try a server in Australia or Asia, as that's the next closest continent.

To find a list of servers check out the network's website. If you don't know the address, search Google. I did a little searching for you and Austnet's server list can be found here.

G'luck!

Regards,

Hey!
Thanks,i tried that. I do live in Austrlia,so i tried connection for Asia and Australia. Now i just get the "Connection timed out" error everytime. Am i doing something wrong? Or is there something else i need to do for this?

Make sure you're connecting to a correct server address. Try connecting to a "round robin" server like irc.austnet.org. Also make sure you're using a correct port like 6667 or 7000. Try a number of servers from that list in the link above.

If you have further issues with Austnet specifically, contact the network's administration. Search their website for emails to contact and/or forms to fill in. They are the only ones who can deal with K-Lines.

You might want to use the Search feature for the connection timed out error - a number of people have reported it before and it is not uncommon. You might like to see this sticky post.

Best of luck.

Regards,

Thanks so much for your help

also.. if ur getting a connection timeout. are you connecting to the server and just hanging there till it times out? sometimes when this happens the server sends a message like. "if you are experiencing trouble connecting do to time outs. please type /quote pong 34842345" or something of that nature... if this is the case type what it says. also try some of the things mentality has covered.

Austnet has been having issues for the past week or so. From what I have gathered, the network has been tweaking the servers. This ban will lift in roughly 24 - 48 hours as this has happened to me a few days ago. Some people have been able to connect using the following servers:

pacific.nsw.au.austnet.org
iinet.wa.au.austnet.org
raving.ca.us.austnet.org
starhub.sg.austnet.org
pacific.sg.austnet.org

Hope this helps out one way or another...

i would say try the network i use. but we arent accepting mirc chat clients soon... we made our own specific client that works something like a mix between aol/msn messanger and a normal everyday irc client.