I had been connecting to the irc.freenode.org server but recently, while running tor I am no longer allowed to connect even though I am not trying to connect anonymously with tor. I know there are a couple hidden service versions for freenode but neither of them work for me either. I enter their *.onion address and my client (Kopete) SEES them but it never actually succeeds in connecting. I get: [08:57] [Info] Looking for server mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion:6667... [08:57] [Info] Server found, connecting... [09:00] [Error] Connection to Server mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion lost: operation is not supported. [09:00] [Info] Trying to reconnect to mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion in 20 seconds. [09:01] [Info] Looking for server mejokbp2brhw4omd.onion:6667... [09:01] [Info] Server found, connecting... over and over and over. The other freenode hidden service is authenticated by pgp key but I cannot connect to that because I would first have to connect to the regular server, or the non-authenticated hidden service above to generate a hash, etc. What is it about running tor, even as a relay, that prevents me from connecting at all to freenode? I can connect to undernet but it doesn't have the chat rooms I seek/need. praedor
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