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=== CONNECTIONS CONFIGURATION === | === CONNECTIONS CONFIGURATION === | ||
- | After commenting out the last two lines of PORT CONFIGURATION, | + | After commenting out the last two lines of PORT CONFIGURATION, |
- | The reason for this is entirely because of DNS. Unless you are running a robust DNS infrastructure on your LAN, chances are good that your ISP's router (the typical home LAN DNS server) will not do reverse look-ups. Setting resolvehostnames=" | + | The reason for changing resolvehostnames |
If you have a more robust DNS server on your network, you can certainly leave this as-is. If you see errors like "Could not resolve your hostname: Malformed answer" | If you have a more robust DNS server on your network, you can certainly leave this as-is. If you see errors like "Could not resolve your hostname: Malformed answer" | ||
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Do not give into the temptation to comment the lines out. This is not the same as setting it to no. | Do not give into the temptation to comment the lines out. This is not the same as setting it to no. | ||
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+ | As for the IP address range that needs changing, this is in the example < | ||
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+ | < | ||
+ | allow=" | ||
+ | </ | ||
=== Enabling Server Operators === | === Enabling Server Operators === | ||
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> #<bind address="" | > #<bind address="" | ||
> #<bind address=" | > #<bind address=" | ||
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+ | < allow=" | ||
+ | --- | ||
+ | > allow=" | ||
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< resolvehostnames=" | < resolvehostnames=" | ||
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See this WikiHow article for a guided step-by-step with pictures: [[ https:// | See this WikiHow article for a guided step-by-step with pictures: [[ https:// | ||
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+ | ===== Thunderbird for GUI clients ===== | ||
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+ | In addition to email, Thunderbird also has IRC capabilities. To access, find Chat on the toolbar. It's after Get Messages and Write. Click Chat. | ||
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+ | Unless you've set up Thunderbird as a chat client previously, you'll be looking at a message that say you haven' | ||
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+ | Follow the set-up wizard. | ||
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+ | * Select IRC as the network. | ||
+ | * Enter your nickname and IRC server hostname (beastie.home.lan if you're following the example.) | ||
+ | * You can leave the password blank. | ||
+ | * Change the port to 6667 in the Advanced Options. | ||
+ | * Remove the check for Use SSL in the Advanced Options. | ||
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+ | Leave the box checked for connect Connect to This Account Now to test. | ||
====== Go Forth and Conquer ====== | ====== Go Forth and Conquer ====== |
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