Port

[spidermatt]

Im not very technical and i dont know what port i have can sumbody explain how you find out?

[Slayer_of_the_Immortals]

Um...Your computer has a TON of ports, around 10,000 I belive...What are you looking for the port for? IRC? Or...?

[spidermatt]

Well i dont really no anything about ports but i need to get on irc

[Slayer_of_the_Immortals]

Cyanide-x uses the following servers:

irc.cyanide-x.net using ports 6667,6668,6669,7000,7001,7002
godzilla.cyanide-x.net, IP 166.82.1.7, using ports 6667,6668,6669,7000,7001,7002
evolution.cyanide-x.net IP 69.41.253.154, using ports 6667,6668,6669,7000,7001,7002
gua.cyanide-x.net IP 67.15.42.60, using ports 6667,6668,6669,7000,7001,7002
foe.cyanide-x.net IP 83.142.228.237, using ports 6667,6668,6669,7000,7001,7002

Pick the server you wanna use, and then a port. I prefer irc.cyanide-x.net as it connects you to a random server each time, that way it's less chance of you being on a server that's haveing problems. Most people use port number 6667, as it is the default mIRC port, but if it doesn't work, one of the others should.

Hope that helps ya :)

[spidermatt]

i did everything the tutorial things said to connect to it and i tryed like 5 different ports and it woodnt connect so i dont no whats wrong

[Slayer_of_the_Immortals]

Are you at a university? Some, or maybe even most of them, will block IRC ports. Also, your firewall could be blocking it - Try disableing it.

[spidermatt]

Not at university and my firewal is down so i dont no what the problem is ill keep trying tho

[Psycho]

Paste the message you get when you try to connect then we may be able to help :)

[spidermatt]

Yeh sorry i was ment to but i forgot ok when i try to connect it says unable to resolve server? any1 no how to fix it

[vengefuldeath87]

/me edits irc post...servers are wrong again :p
its mothra not evo, but evo should point to it.

[spidermatt]

Well i can get onto irc now just found out that pyscho isnt used anymore i log onto mothra then wat do i do from there to get where u guys go to?

[vengefuldeath87]

see here http://www.phoenixrising.at/forums/showthread.php?t=13035

[spidermatt]

Yeh i got on the mothra one but what channel do i join when im on which one does people usually go on?

edit: Plus how i change password if i need to and how i get + in front of ma name in the phoenix channel

[spidermatt]

Oh its all good i finally got on

[mathchamp]

I think a computer has 65,536 ports.

The more ports, the better cause it is more secure.

If your computer had only 4 ports, for example, if you opened one, then it would be easy for someone to break through the firewall, even though 3 ports are still blocked.

[jaketo]

Generally regarding ports in simple terms (summarised from here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_and_UDP_port) becuase I don't have time to write one of my long, rambling posts on interconnectivity ;)) -

Ports are typically used to map data to a particular process running on a remote computer. In both the TCP and UDP protocols, each packet header will specify a source port and a destination port, each of which is a 16-bit integer (i.e. ranging from 0 to 65535), as well as specifying the source and destination IP addresses amongst other things.

A process may "bind" to a particular port to send and receive data, meaning that it will listen for incoming packets whose destination port matches that port number, and/or send outgoing packets whose source port is set to that port number. Processes may also bind to multiple ports.

The default ports in use are defined by IANA, a list of which can be found here (http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers), but it is possible to use custom ports if so required.

Cheers

Jake