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In addition to the standard IRC ports, also make it accessible from port 80 or 443 to avoid being blocked by corporate firewalls.
by rcfox 16y ago
In addition to the standard IRC ports, also make it accessible from port 80 or 443 to avoid being blocked by corporate firewalls.
- ax0n 16y agoMost "corporate firewalls" are egress filters with a proxy server, and proxy servers won't just barf IRC packets to a box on port 80. Some will barf random non-SSL traffic to port 443, though.