Res: [Catalyst-dev] Catalyst tutorial

[Wade.Stuart at fallon.com]

"J. Shirley" <jshirley at gmail.com> wrote on 09/03/2008 09:13:26 AM:

> On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Carl Franks <fireartist at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Matt - I do appreciate that I've no idea how often this comes up on
> > irc, and how much pain it may be causing you.
> > I've tried getting past my firewall by connecting to irc.perl.org with
> > an ssh-tunnel, but it immediately tries to bounce me to another server
> > - at which point it stops dead, because my ssh-tunnel can only see
> > irc.perl.org
> > If you/anyone knows a way around this, I *will* get back on irc more
> > regularly, and I'll get a #formfu channel started - which would at
> > least give you somewhere to punt people asking formfu questions on
> > #catalyst
> > [snip]
>
> You can setup an IRC proxy on an outside server you can get it, and
> then connect to that via ssh-tunnel (or, ssh out and then irc from
> there in a screen session).
>
> Also, if you set it up to connect directly to one of the irc.perl.org
> servers does that work? You can find the direct server list at
> http://www.irc.perl.org/servers.mhtml - try one of those rather than
> irc.perl.org and see if that helps.
>

yes,  irc.perl.org does not actually redirect you,  it just has the list of
server ips that it round robins through with short ttl.  either use a
specific server from the list above or choose one of the ip addresses
returned for irc.perl.org instead of the domain name.

 <<>> DiG 9.4.2-P1 <<>> irc.perl.org
;; global options:  printcmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 51045
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0

;; QUESTION SECTION:
;irc.perl.org.                IN    A

;; ANSWER SECTION:
irc.perl.org.           788   IN    CNAME g.irc.perl.org.
g.irc.perl.org.         300   IN    A     67.18.187.46
g.irc.perl.org.         300   IN    A     72.26.102.142

;; Query time: 87 msec
;; SERVER: 10.19.61.30#53(10.19.61.30)
;; WHEN: Wed Sep  3 10:02:34 2008
;; MSG SIZE  rcvd: 78


-Wade