| Subject: | /etc/hosts name resolving bug |
Russ, Scott wrote:
Hello,
I'm having problems with this module. The irctest script doesn't run.
Everytime I try to connect I get:
Creating connection to IRC server...
Can't connect to irc.prison.net:6667! at
/usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1/Net/IRC.pm line 192
irctest: Can't connect to IRC server.
When using my own script I have tried just using a server and accepting
the other defaults. I stil get the Can't connect to servername:6667!
message. I have no idea why it isn't working. I tried joining the
#net-irc channel on EFnet but no one was there. Can you help me out?
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He later wrote:
I found a cause for the strange connection failures. I'm not sure
about the fix or really the explaination but here it goes. in
/etc/hosts my machine name was on the same line as localhost. So when
Net::IRC get the hostname it binds to 127.0.0.1, and when it tried to
make an outgoing connection it fails. As soon an I moved my machine
name to its own line with its IP address the problem was fixed.
-Scott