#ghc connection issue

Wed Aug 20 12:40:01 EDT 2008

On 2008 Aug 20, at 10:52, Claus Reinke wrote:

> I seem to be unable to join the ghc chatroom at irc.freenode.net
> at the moment (using Opera). Is that an issue with my irc client or  
> a general problem?
>
> 15:47  Joining chat room...
> Disconnected from chat

For a while some home routers/APs were a bit overzealous about trying  
to block certain kinds of evil DCC, and could do things like that.

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