Re: irc

[Jeffrey Laramie <JALaramie@Loudoun-Fairfax.com>]

Antony Stone wrote:

>On Monday 17 November 2003 4:10 pm, SBlaze wrote:
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>> > All I can suggest is that you look around for an IRC proxy server,
>> > however I have no knowledge of such things myself.
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>>>Regards,
>>>
>>>Antony.
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>>There are such things as IRC Proxys. bnc is one of the more common ones
>>that I have heard of. However this won't do him any good since he is
>>looking for a rule to allow in IRC protocol.
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>I'm not sure that *is* what he's looking for?   Quoting from his second 
>posting:
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>"The 'firewall' in this case, is a transparent proxy server.  The proxy 
>server will be the gateway to the internet.   I need to allow irc connections 
>through this machine, somehow.  I don't know how to do that."
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>Therefore it seems to me that he's looking for an IRC proxy server, not a 
>packet filtering rule.
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>Maybe I'm just confused.
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Say it ain't so!  :-)

Just out of curiosity, what exactly is the difference between an IRC 
server and an IRC proxy?

Client connects to server
Client connects to proxy

Server relays
Proxy relays

Hmmm.