How do I make impulse chat work?

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I've never been able to get Impulse chat to work, either in Impulse or in Demigod.  What do I need to do to make chat work?

In Demigod shift-tab always brings up an empty box.

In Impulse, chat results results in a window that reads:
"9:34 AM  Attempting connection to host : irc.stardock.com"
"9:34 AM  Connected to server : irc.stardock.com"

And periodically I will be notified that there is a Demigod game to join, but I am unable to chat and I don't see a user list or anything.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

You must be behind a firewall that is blocking it.  That's my guess anyway.

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

What ports need to be open?  I am behind a router/NAT but no firewall so I would think it should work (router blocks incoming but not outgoing).

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

You'd want to open the ones that use IRC.  Anyone reading this know which port IRC clients use?

Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

I opened the ports necessary for IRC (6660-6669) but both still don't work for me.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

I'm always having trouble with IRC and routers/firewalls. The usual port for IRC servers tend to be 6669 (IIRC), but I never seem to be able to get through. Some (most?) servers also have an alternate on port 7000 to connect to, and whenever that is the case, I usually don't have a problem with connecting, once I've updated the port the client uses.

I haven't checked to see if Impulse's built-in IRC chat client has that option (haven't seen any IRC settings in Impulse's Preferences dialog  :'( ). I usually end up installing mIRC or similar, that has that configuration ability as standard.

 

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

I opened the default IRC ports but that doesn't appear to have helped with anything.  I still either get an empty window or just myself listed 3 times.  When I get 3 of me chatting "works" but doesn't go to #demigod channel.  /join #demigod returns "Unknown IRC command".

Is this fixed for release?  Is there something I can do with my setup to make it work?

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

To identify whether it is a Demigod/Reactor issue is to see if the chat inside of Impulse works. If that works then there's a problem with the IRC inside of Impulse Reactor.  However, if the chat inside Impulse (the client) does not work for you, then you have a router/ISP issue.

Reply #8 from Demigod Forums Top

Chat doesn't work in Impulse either.

Reply #9 from Stardock Forums Top

irc.stardock.com recieves data on port 6667

irc.stardock.com ip: 38.98.152.155

You could try allowing all traffic to and from that ip can see if that helps.

Reply #10 from Demigod Forums Top

I have no firewall (windows or otherwise) and my router currently has all traffic on ports 6660-6669 (TCP & UDP) forwarded to my computer.  At the moment, using Impulse and connecting to irc.stardock.com #demigod results in everything looking like it works except I only see "Marvin_" in the channel (yet when I use Mibbit I can see a whole list of people in the channel).  The irc.stardock.com window (on the left) does not appear to have any errors.  It also appears I was put into a channel called #martian, where again I'm alone with "Marvin_".

Reply #11 from Demigod Forums Top

Found the answer on the Stardock Support forum. Its something Cox Cable is doing to it's subscribers.

https://forums.stardock.com/326700

 

Cox DNS giving false info, you can try forcing the right IP in your hosts file. Go to %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc and add the following line to the hosts file:

38.98.152.138   irc.stardock.com