Description of problem: The command /server -ssl <some host> attempts to connect to port 9999 when the port it should be trying to connect to is 994. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.0-3.1, but it seems to have been this way for all of 2.x
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Very much alive with xchat-2.6.6-8 and yes /etc/services point to port 994 for ircs.
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Who says this is a bug, i.e. that the port really should be 994? Port 9999 is very much in use for IRC over SSL out there in the real world.
According to /etc/services: ircs 994/tcp distinct 9999/tcp # distinct Personally, I'm inclined to believe that 994 is the correctly assigned number given that it is documented as such.
CCing upstream. All this is nice in theory, but out there in the real world, 9999 is used a lot. Probably for the same reason almost nobody uses the official port 194 for unencrypted IRC, but usually 6667 or 7000: port numbers above 1024 don't require root privileges to bind.
I was actually thinking of changing the default ssl port to 6697. This seems to be the defacto standard right now. 994 is no go, because no one actually uses it. I don't think it matters much anyway, since you need to specify the port when adding a SSL server to the list: e.g. irc.sslserver.net/+6697
Well, at least irc.freequest.net uses 9999. But that's a small network. The large ones I checked (Freenode, EFNet, DalNET) don't appear to support SSL at all, so "let's just default to what the large networks use" won't work either.
994 is in use by a number of networks. Regardless of what the port is, xchat should default to whatever is specified in /etc/services which can be changed to the appropriate default.
So do you also advocate defaulting unencrypted IRC to 194? That would make XChat completely out of touch with the real world.
Can this issue be re-visited? It has been a few years now and it appears that all the major IRC networks have now jumped to 6697. Some are still accepting 9999 for backwards compatibility. 9999 needs to go away since other programs (aproxy for debian) use it. http://blog.freenode.net/2011/02/port-6697-irc-via-tlsssl/
I no longer comaintain XChat, I'll leave it up to the current maintainers to decide what to do about this.