I have tried joining #help and the channel was full, so I guess the problem was ONLY with teh channel I ws trying to join... I typed everything okay, but still the channel looked empty. I'm betting for a netsplit here. No, I'm afraid I can't conect directly; I have to go through the proxy :( Anyway,...

YOU | -----------> |ISP's PROXY| ----------> |EFNet IRC Server | Notice that the computer that is actually connecting to the IRC server is the proxy. That is the computer that EFNet sees as where the connection is coming from. If the proxy server isn't running identd and isn't configured to ask you...

Hi! I'm running under WinXP and Mirc. My ISP is supossed to be running with a proxy. I usually conect okay with Efnet and I've been downloading stuff from their channels for a while now, but today, I don't know why, I get this message: -irc.blessed.net- *** Looking up your hostname... - -irc.blessed...