An alternative is to first connect to a remote server and then IRC
from there. That is what I do, but for different reasons (so I can
keep the channel going in a screen session and therefore be able to
scroll back when I reconnect). Dan turned me on to this technique.
Roy

On Feb 28, 2006, at 11:53 AM, Andrew Nagy wrote:

> My university has blocked the standard IRC port due to massive trojan
> traffic.  Does the freenode.net irc server allow any other non-
> standard
> ports?  I checked their website, but their is no mention of ports
> (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.freenode.net
> +port&btnG=Google+Search)
>
> Thanks
> Andrew
>