Luca Capello <luca@pca.it> writes:

> This is because erc-default-port (lisp/erc/erc.el:1463) defines the
> port number as a string, thus breaking socks-find-services-entry
> (lisp/net/socks.el:551).

Thanks for the report.  I've fixed this in upstream ERC, and will merge
to Emacs trunk shortly.  I decided to use the number 6667 instead of a
string.  The reason that we don't want to use ircd there is that Mac OS
X is unable to look up that particular service (IIRC).  I remember
getting at least one report about it.

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