A few

things:
Did you try connecting from a different machine? It might be a

single machine having an error, or it might not like you connecting to it

from the same system.
Is your firewall rejecting the traffic? Either a

software firewall, or a firewall on a router.
It might also help if you

said what software you're using for the IRC server and connecting to

it!!!

Oh, I

fixed the problem. The ports on my router needed to be forwarded to my

computer. So, now i got it working so what do I do? How do I get a chanserv

and nickserv on there? How do I get opers? How do i keep channels open?

Those are just a few of the questions I have, so if anyone knows about this

stuff please reply. Thanks.

Does

the software require a specific name on the config file? Or do you have to

select the file in the software? Normally these sorts of things have a

specific filename which must be used, and this doesn't affect the operation

of the server unless it can't find the file at all. Try setting the file

name back to what it was to begin with, the server name should be collected

from within the file and not the filename.

I am

not against IRC, not against people helping others with it, so please don't

get that impression, but...uh...this is all being requested by the guy who

was getting upset over MUDs and Sryth? Um...*lol*

No

intention of making an entire topic of it, Mike, just making a statement.

Said statement having been made, and your admission too, I"m satisfied.

I

wish I could help you, but unfortunately I can't. So I'll disappear back

into the woodwork now.