well I am a noob still. I found that I had to add an exception to my firewall. I'm using a different antivirus suite since avira no longer helps. Anyway it works now that I did add program. Usually this thing asks me for permission but it didn't for my irc client software. But at least this got me t...

I didn't manually type in those except for a few of the DNS.. the rest were being pulled from the efnet server I was trying to connect to.

well maybe if I try again in a few weeks / months I'll be able to get on efnet to chat. for now it looks like it is broken or comcast is entirely banned from it.

Cleaver. I haven't been on it in a while and I just got home from class and wanted to chat up a few people. All I am getting for any server is this: * Connecting to irc.blessed.net (6668) - * Unable to connect to server (Permission denied) - * Connect retry #1 irc.efnet.info (6667) - * Unable to con...