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Tribes2 ingame IRC client

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  • 20-04-2001 8:55pm
    #1
    Stephen
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭


    Is it possible to make this connect to an IRC server of your own choice - irc.b0rk.co.uk:6667 for instance?
    - Munch


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    #2
    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    /server irc.barrysworld.co.uk
    This IRC client does not allow you to change servers.


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    acous
    Registered Users Posts: 486 ✭✭acous


    you could try putting a fake entry in ur HOSTS file pointing irc.sierra.com (or whatever it is) to the server u want.


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    #4
    Stephen
    Registered Users Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    Eh... where's this hosts file? I can't find it in my T2 directory anywhere...


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    quozl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    Its part of your windows system itself. Its used for name resolution. Any domain names are first checked to see if they are in hosts, if so that ip is used. Otherwise a dns is contacted (usually thats the fall back). So find it, its prob in system or something, and add an entry for irc.sierra.com
    No idea if this will work. Its probably got some proprietry ****e in its greeting to stop ppl doing that. Seems silly not to let ppl use the irc on any server they want.
    quozl


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    Hobbes
    Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    I think your LMHOSTS is checked AFTER the DNS is checked. I'd have to dig out my MSCE stuff.


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    quozl
    Registered Users Posts: 3,308 ✭✭✭quozl


    Pretty sure it isnt. As you can use it to override ips you would get from dns. For a fact it isnt in all *nix os's. And it would seem very silly for MS to have gone against thus (plus I'd swear I remember it anyway, as being the first checked).
    quozl


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    #8
    spod
    Registered Users Posts: 332 ✭✭spod


    <font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Hobbes:
    I think your LMHOSTS is checked AFTER the DNS is checked. I'd have to dig out my MSCE stuff. </font>

    I thought LMHOSTS stood for LanMan Hosts. Lanman being that evil windows filesharing netbios stuff...


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