From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: erc connection problems Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 14:35:14 -0500 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1464881008 6489 80.91.229.3 (2 Jun 2016 15:23:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2016 15:23:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 02 17:23:17 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1b8USq-00061Z-Jh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:23:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48005 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b8USk-0004HG-Pf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Jun 2016 11:23:10 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin3!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!news.mi.ras.ru!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news7 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pe19b94e6030d4469df1131d7ae4e1ca25361f305441bbd7c.newsdawg.com X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.newsguy.net:80 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:217495 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110168 Archived-At: Often but not always I get the following error when trying to start erc: Connecting to irc.freenode.net:6667... open-network-stream: make client process failed: connection timed out, :name, erc-irc.freenode.net-6667, :buffer, nil, :host, irc.freenode.net, :service, 6667, :nowait, nil This usually happens with irc.dal.net server but sometimes with other ones. Is this and irc network problem or is there something I can do in my .emacs to alleviate the problem? Specifically is "... connection timed out" caused by something in my setup? Usually the firefox chatzilla plugin works when erc does not. Thanks in advance for any help or at least insight into the problem, Ed