From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeffrey Laramie Subject: Re: irc Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:35:19 -0500 Sender: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org Message-ID: <3FB8F8C7.8090104@Loudoun-Fairfax.com> References: <20031117161039.97875.qmail@web40203.mail.yahoo.com> <200311171618.hAHGIAj22261@agate.rockstone.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200311171618.hAHGIAj22261@agate.rockstone.co.uk> Errors-To: netfilter-admin@lists.netfilter.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: netfilter@lists.netfilter.org Antony Stone wrote: >On Monday 17 November 2003 4:10 pm, SBlaze wrote: > > > >> > All I can suggest is that you look around for an IRC proxy server, >> > however I have no knowledge of such things myself. >> >> >>>Regards, >>> >>>Antony. >>> >>> >>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. >> >> > >I'm not sure that *is* what he's looking for? Quoting from his second >posting: > >"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." > >Therefore it seems to me that he's looking for an IRC proxy server, not a >packet filtering rule. > >Maybe I'm just confused. > > 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.