Connection problems with irclib

[Dropkick Punt]

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:46:14 +0000, Paul Boddie wrote:

> On 11 Apr, 15:31, "Dropkick Punt" <notrealaddr... at all.com> wrote:
>> Hi. I've written a bot in python, using the irclib by Joel Rosdahl.
>>
>> Works fine from my linux box at home, but when I upload it to my shell at
>> veritynet.net, can't seem to get it to connect to an irc server.
> 
> It may well be the case that your hosting provider has blocked various
> IRC ports and/or traffic.

Thanks but no. The shell is generally used for eggdrops, and port 6667 is
open. They even installed python specifically so I could run this bot.

> 
>> It doesn't report any errors.
>>
>> Anyone have any idea how I might go about at least diagnosing the problem?
>> Any suggestions might help.
> 
> Check your provider's usage policy and documentation.