[IRCServices] Address Already in use!

Finny Merrill griever at t2n.org
Thu Aug 8 22:50:01 PDT 2002


On Thu, 8 Aug 2002, Ekim Engin wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ircservices-admin at ircservices.za.net 
> >[mailto:ircservices-admin at ircservices.za.net] 
> >On Behalf Of Anar.Ch
> > Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 10:50 AM
> >To: ircservices at ircservices.za.net
> >Subject: [IRCServices] Address Already in use!
> >
> >
> >Hello all. I have installed Tr-IRCD 5.0 on FreeBSD. 
> >And Tr-IRCD is works fine. But When i intsalled IRC 
> >Services nothing happened. I >> have got the follownig error
> >[Aug 05 15:02:23 2002] FATAL: Can't connect to server 
> >(127.0.0.1:6667): Address already in use
> >
> >Any suggestion?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Unless others say 127.0.0.1 is not just for testing purposes. If both
> services and ircd run on the same machine ist a legal way to connect
> them.
> Your problem seems to me like, if you defined LocalAddress with port
> 6667, this is not needed normally (unless you have a multi ip machine
> and/or a limited portrange you may use to connect to extern adresses.)
> But as it seems to me, you are conncting localhost, just comment the
> LocalAddress directive out in your services.conf and be sure you defined
> RmeoteServer directive directly...

You really shouldn't have a port with LocalAddress. You shouldn't even
really have to use LocalAddress at all, but even then you shouldn't need
a port