Accessing IRC from behind College Network

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by SingerOfSongs (Heresy and apostasy is how progress is made.) on Friday, 08-Apr-2005 19:51:24

Hey people, have a problem that I'm hoping some people can help me on. I and a friend of mine run an IRC based rpg. I have a couple people that are interested, but are behind college networks that block the standard port 6667. Does anyone know of a way around this? I'm thinking of proxy server, but I don't nkow a whole lot about them. Any suggestions welcome. Thanks.

Post 2 by Chris N (I just keep on posting!) on Friday, 08-Apr-2005 21:29:46

Yeah. You'll have to tunnel the trafic over a port that they allow. One idea would be to use one of the various web-based irc clients. Unfortunately I don't know how accessible they are.