Hexchat Taking up to Half an Hour to Join any Server
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loganjamison · 2017-09-10 18:09

I've tried both Snoonet and Freenode, using default options, and it
takes up to half an hour before joining the irc server and continuing
as normal.

Anything you guys can think of that may be causing this?

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FluSolverson · 2017-09-10 19:06

Thirty minutes is longer than hell. What's going on during those
thirty minutes and are things ok after?  Is your internet cable
securely plugged in? Is your computer on?

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loganjamison · 2017-09-10 19:08

Everything works fine. It gives me no error messages, it just waits
for 30 minutes saying it's connecting to chat.freenode.net, and then
it just runs through at normal speed like nothing happened.

One day it started doing this, and I have no idea why. I've updated my
system, I've rebooted, I've re-installed hexchat and all it's config,
etc... a ping to chat.freenode.net does not go through, though.

Ideas?

EDIT: chat.freenode.net is reachable from every other computer on my
network just fine, though.

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CannedDeath · 2017-09-11 14:01

It sounds like maybe it's a firewall thing. Did you try connecting
with SSL/TLS?

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loganjamison · 2017-09-11 15:20

I'm using SSL without accepting invalid requests.

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CannedDeath · 2017-09-11 15:51

Sounds like maybe the firewall on that PC is blocking HexChat or
blocking ports used for IRC.

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loganjamison · 2017-09-11 20:12

How would I check this on Linux? Fedora in particular

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CannedDeath · 2017-09-11 20:41

I'm not sure but I think Fedora uses either ufw or iptables for it's
firewall rules. The default settings shouldn't be blocking outbound
IRC traffic. I'm not sure if any SELinux policies would be involved
either. You could also try using Wireshark to see what's going on with
the IRC or TLS packets for the connection. I'd also check what happens
with another IRC client.

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loganjamison · 2017-09-11 20:43

Wire shark isn't bad, I'll try that