[SOLVED] How to connect to IRC Freenode

[tarazed]

I am trying to join the QA team for testing pre-release ISOs and am finding it hard
going. The Wiki suggests lurking on the IRC channel #mageia-qa on the Freenode server
but I cannot get to first base with that. Having never used IRC and knowing nothing
about it I chose irssi out of the hat, read some documentation and tried the commands

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/server freenode
/channel #mageia-qa


and received the responses "Connecting to Freenode <ip-address> port 6667" then some
time afterwards "Unable to connect server .... Connection timed out". That failure
message repeats at intervals. Irssi also reports "Unknown command: channel #mageia-qa"
although /help lists channel as a command. Perhaps /channel can be interpreted only
after a successful connection?

Used /rmreconns to abort. Anybody know what is going on here?

Len

[tarazed]

nslookup returns advancedsearch.virginmedia.com for the IP address given in irssi and nslookup freenode returns the same IP address. So it looks like freenode is not the way to address the Freenode server. Thus the query needs to be rephrased as "how to address the Freenode server in IRC?". Does anybody know?

[tarazed]

Found it via a search on the web. => irc.freenode.net then

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/join #mageia-qa


[doktor5000]

Can't help directly with irssi, but you may want to read http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#contents-userregistration and http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#usingfreenode

I'm using konversation which works just fine. Quassel does too, cannot comment on any others directly.
Connecting to chat.freenode.net port 8001 with my default identity (username needs to be registered with Freenode once)
and then to the relevant IRC channels.

[tarazed]

Thanks; will follow those links and maybe look at quassel.