why port 6667?

Jason · Posted: Dec 15, 2003 1:48pm Post subject:

Freeserve chat, as in this? http://www.freeserve.com/community/chat/

If so, due to them requiring every user to be registered before they can even connect to the network, they are more like a TalkCity than a normal IRC network.

Mary · SearchIRC Admin Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 692

I went to that site and read: "Freeserve is to keep its chat rooms open and work with the Police and the Home Office to make them even safer for users."

What!? What kind of problems do they have that they need to call in the police and "home office" to keep their users safe? That really got my attention. I read further. Freeserve is run by wanadoo - a very large French ISP that operated the popular Voila IRC network. MSN was pretty big in Europe. As soon as they closed, Wanadoo announced it would charge users a fee for registering their nicknames, and only registered nicks would be allowed to use their service. It looks to me like the misnamed Freeserve was created to justify Wanadoo's new pay chat and scare users away from truly "free" IRC networks.

For anyone who has any doubts at all, pay services are not any "safer" than free services. Do accidents ONLY happen on freeways? Get real.

Mary · SearchIRC Admin Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 692

Arrrgh!

Forgot to say. Many, if not most, IRC networks have port 7000 open. 7000 used to be the ONLY port that AOL customers could use to access IRC, and on some networks it was default, like 6667 is today, so no matter where you came from you could connect. Using 7000 to look for an http: port is *not* usual. Someone told me that MSN users like 'webchats' so I imagine Wanadoo is setting themselves up to capture the MSN refugees.

Might be a good idea for other IRC networks to do the same. Hint hint hint...

U · Eleet Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 521 Location: IRC

Unreal IRCd will configure the following ports standard:

6660-6669/7000.

So any network running it has 7000.

Also, if you're running 3.2 and take the default SSH connection port, they will be on port 7001.

Most people take the defaults, so these are likely ports to try on a Unreal network.

Plasma · Newbie Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 63

sickmusic, may I suggest CGI:IRC.

Its a web-based IRC client (requires CGI support on your webserver) that allows users to visit the site (through www, port 80) and chat over IRC using a web-based chat applet (that connects to a chat server of your choice, and channel).

View it here, http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/

Or a demo here http://cgiirc.sourceforge.net/demo/

This works through firewalls and proxys, since its virutally a webpage.

Harlyman · none Joined: 29 Jun 2003 Posts: 18

our network might be abel to help you out with that, we can open up ports that works for you to our servers or set up another system that lets you connect to our network, let me know and i'll try to help you out Smile

square444 · none Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 1

U · Eleet Joined: 18 Jun 2003 Posts: 521 Location: IRC

If your school is blocking the port, it may be for a good reason.

You may lose your access if they find out you're circumventing the firewall by trying to get around it.

Tread lightly Smile

sickmusic · none Joined: 11 Dec 2003 Posts: 10

wannabe · Guest

can I make server in my computer so i can use irc from another computer which is behind a firewall? I have in my home computer windows me, so can i make a ssh server so I can use irc in my work computer? I do not have linux or unix. please help me. Smile

helpme · Guest

i need to unblock the following ports in order to play an online game. i came across this forum by googling it... please tell me how i can unblock these ports...

Working Around the Firewall / Proxy
If you are behind a firewall/proxy and are able to change its settings, Arcade needs the following TCP ports open in order to function:
6667 (IRC)
3783 (Voice Chat Port)
27900 (Master Server UDP Heartbeat)
28900 (Master Server List Request)
29900 (GP Connection Manager)
29901 (GP Search Manager)
13139 (Custom UDP Pings)
6515 (Dplay UDP)
6500 (Query Port)

uchat · Idler Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 335

Read the "port forwarding" section of the documentation supplied with your router.

Ashen · Idler Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 285

According to the RFCs, isn't 703 the official IRC port?

It's easy to see why no-one binds to that though - 703 is less then 1024, and thus would require root access (or some subset of it)...... and since that is a bad idea, an impromptu standard was created whereby people use port 6667, then ports 6667-6669, 7000-7001 for SSL, etc.

I guess it's one of those 'enough chaos assembles itself into order without the need for any person do the ordering' things Smile

uchat · Idler Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 335

I recently scanned through RFC1459 and I found that 6667 was the only port used or mentioned .. and it was used in an example.