Techie Help Please Please Please!!!!
 

I installed the service pack 2 and now I can't get in to chat period, not through mIRC not through java, nada, zilch, zippo. Even when I disable the firewall it won't connect to the server. Anyone have any ideas????

Ok, now I know it's not just me...I don't think I've done an update recently, and I was unable to get in a couple of nights ago..."unable to resolve IRC server"

I feel your pain Lilith, unfortunately I only have empathy to offer... But I'm anxious to hear replies as this was one of many problems I had on my initial install, and am still waiting to have my second go round at it.

After letting mIrc have umteen retries, I got a prompt from the help menu, which told me this:
Unable to resolve IRC Server
If you try to connect to a server and see this message, the problem could be:

Your Internet Provider's DNS isn't working
This happens occasionally and is a temporary problem with your Internet Provider. This problem would also result in your being unable to connect to other internet services such as web sites. You should try again later.

An Invalid or Non-working IRC Server address
You might be trying to connect to an IRC Server that is currently not working, or perhaps is an old address and doesn't exist anymore. You should try another IRC Server.

Trying to use the 32bit mIRC with a 16bit winsock
Try the 16bit mIRC to see if that solves the problem.

I have not heard any bad things with SP-2. We had some of our own (that KNOW what they are doing) give it ^5. I’m not sure I’d throw rocks at it yet. I'm very twitchy about things like that, but it's been good for me. I hope Cobalt, MT, ScareCrow, or the like gets here for you Lil.

I just put on SP-2 the other day and I'm having the same problem as Lilith. Arrrg!

When i downloaded service pack 2 i had same problem.Thru trial and error more error i found it activated a pop up blocker i didnt know i had preventing any java type pop ups from coming thru.Might not be the problem but then again its microsoft so who knows.Wish ya luck and MERRY CHRISTMAS.

I presume by your ability to post that you are able to browse the web without problems? If so, it is unlikely to be your ISP's DNS server (the one acting as your local nameserver) at fault as it is responsible for the resolution of all hostnames, webservers, IRC servers, etc.

I cannot resolve irc.dynastynet.net from my home machine, nor from a remote shell on one of the machines at uni. Connections to dynastynet.net's DNS servers are timing out which would seem to indicate that the problem is theirs and the poor bastard who's the on-call sysadmin on Christmas day has probably had his cellphone ringing like crazy (in our company I am that poor bastard, thankfully nothing has (nor will :) ) happen).

Are you able to connect to other IRC servers like say...pacific.nsw.au.austnet.org ? This is one I know is up (at least at the time of posting), obviously it's on a different network, but it'll at least tell you if your settings are allowing IRC connections out of your machine and into the Internet.

I think it's the dynastynet server because I can't run java or mIRC and the stats page is not available either. I have my sytem configged to allow mIRC and java applets.

Their website is down as well.

was in fact them not me :D YAY I am not totally fucked :D

But would you ike to be?

When I installed Noton IS 2005 on my desktop, somehow it refused to allow mIRC-I had thought the problem was also on my end, I checked the settings to allow IRC specifically, also to allow java with cerain aps. Nothing. Temporarily disabled the firewall, still wasn't able to get into IRC, although it allowed the Java chatroom.

This has been going on for about a month and a half, so I'm still not convinced that it's necessarily dynastynets problem, although they may also be having problems on top of the problems I have connecting with them.

Hm...

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Just got in thru mIRC

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No Jupe either