IRC and firewalls (was Re: [vtk-developers] IRC boycott?)

[Lorensen, William E (Research)]

Looks somewhat hopeless. Our firewall guys are (rightly so) conservative.

-----Original Message-----
From: Prabhu Ramachandran [mailto:prabhu at aero.iitm.ernet.in]
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 2:02 PM
To: Jeff Lee
Cc: Lorensen, William E (Research); 'vtk-developers at public.kitware.com'
Subject: IRC and firewalls (was Re: [vtk-developers] IRC boycott?)


>>>>> "JL" == Jeff Lee <jeff at cdnorthamerica.com> writes:

    JL> Me too.  I have to do something about my firewall before I can
    JL> do this chat stuff, although I'm interested.  -Jeff

When you connect to an irc server like irc.openprojects.net you will
need to connect to port 6667.  So if you could convince your firewall
admins to allow connections out from that port I guess that you should
be ok.  You cant do DCC's but that should not bother you too much.

Alternatively you could get around this if someone runs a irc-www
gateway using something like this:

 http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net

AFAIK, the only trouble with this is that someone who is not behind a
firewall with a blocked irc port needs to have this running.  If that
can be arranged it should be possible for someone behind a firewall to
get to irc.  I think Charl has more experience with this.  Charl, any
words of advice?

prabhu