I am trying to run IRSSI on my Bluehost account. I have successfully installed IRSSI but cannot connect to any IRC server. I simply get Unable to connect server X port 6667 [Connection timed out]. I have copied my working IRSII config file from a friend's server so I can hopefully rule this out.
I contacted Bluehost and they said it is possible as other users have done it in the past, and they don't specifically block IRC traffic, but they do not provide any support for doing so.
I have tried connect to different servers and trying different ports, namely 7001 for SSL and this had no affect. I looked at my running processes (lsof -P | grep :6667) and the only thing I could related directly to the connection attempt said (SYS SENT) and lines like this
irssi 30497 name cwd DIR 8,81 4096 167821313 /home1/name
lsof: no pwd entry for UID 3152
irssi 30497 name rtd DIR 9,1 4096 11190361 /
irssi 30497 name txt REG 8,81 3695634 167920447 /home1/name/bin/irssi
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 1367232 12093693 /root/lib64/libcrypto.so.0.9.8e
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 315080 12093694 /root/lib64/libssl.so.0.9.8e
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 144776 12093675 /root/lib64/ld-2.5.so
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 1718232 12093682 /root/lib64/libc-2.5.so
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 615136 12093692 /root/lib64/libm-2.5.so
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 85544 12095023 /root/lib64/libz.so.1.2.3
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 23360 12093714 /root/lib64/libdl-2.5.so
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 145872 12093686 /root/lib64/libpthread-2.5.so
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 95464 12095021 /root/lib64/libselinux.so.1
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 247496 12095020 /root/lib64/libsepol.so.1
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 53448 12095030 /root/lib64/librt-2.5.so
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 1262480 8192008 /root/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 48600 12095026 /root/lib64/libcrypt-2.5.so
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 92816 12095019 /root/lib64/libresolv-2.5.so
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 9472 12095018 /root/lib64/libkeyutils-1.2.so
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 10096 12095022 /root/lib64/libcom_err.so.2.1
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 18152 12095049 /root/lib64/libutil-2.5.so
lsof: no pwd entry for UID 3152
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 647608 12095034 /root/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.1200.3
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 613928 6160397 /root/lib64/libkrb5.so.3.3
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 190976 6160398 /root/lib64/libgssapi_krb5.so.2.2
irssi 30497 name mem REG 9,0 114352 12095032 /root/lib64/libnsl-2.5.so
Any help on debugging the problem is more than welcome. Also any hints or tips are also welcome.
Thank you
After some more exploration and trying to telnet to the address I found that the problem was my hosting WAS blocking some outbound ports. Meaning that the problem I was experiencing was not IRSSI related. Hopefully this may guide people in the future. Especially by trying to Telnet to the server to diagnose the problem