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HexChat is open source and portable, active development with frequent updates. Very powerful client with a large user base and thousands of scripts to extend it. Runs portable "out of the box."

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but Andrew Lee has an ownership stake in Snoonet also.

He owned Private Internet Access (PIA) which helped sponsor Snoonet. When he sold off PIA he continued being a stakeholder and sponsor to Snoonet. He doesn't seem to do much management of the network, but my understanding is that he's still an owner.

In one of his lawsuits, plaintiffs alleged that he would do cocaine openly while at London Trust Media/Private Internet Access. Also supposedly cheated on his wife and child with a mistress, which he brought to the office.

Edit: Case number BC596372 in the Super Court of the State of California, County of Los Angeles, Central District.

You can use a bouncer, like znc. This sits inbetween you and the IRC server and you connect to it when you want to connect to IRC, I would not recommend using a free one, as they can see all your passwords and log every channel you're in, but you could set it up on a server if you have one

Give Enlightenment's Terminology terminal emulator a try instead. In-line image viewer works like a charm, even though the whole thing is still a bit work-in-progress. You can also install it from Janetzek's Enlightenment SVN PPA.

>IRC heavily for work

Curious. How do you make use of IRC for work? I want to do this. D:

Also, I recently bought a Mac (my first), and installed LimeChat, which I've used on both the iPad and iPhone/iPod devices. I have not given it nearly as much use yet on OSX, but I figured it is worth mentioning.

An IRC bouncer is good for this purpose. It can always stays connected to your servers, then you setup your client to connect to it. They can be configured to "play back" what happened since you left each time you reconnect.

I run ZNC on a crappy Linux box and open a port through my router to it so I can take my laptop on the go with me.

There are also hosted bouncer services if you don't want to run your own.

Easiest way would be to 1) install Homebrew (https://brew.sh/) then 2) brew install irssi

Once you have it installed you can check out the irssi quick start guide: https://irssi.org/documentation/startup/#first-steps

FYI, best to use the forum links like:

http://forums.mirc.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/247599/mIRC_7.36_released

When a new version is released, you can't use that http://www.mirc.com/news.html link as the subreddit will not allow you to post a duplicate for whatever reason. I ran into this issue when I was posting about irssi releases.

Hey mate, I use "IRC for Android" and regularly use DCC with it. It's the only Android IRC client that I had luck with DCC.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.countercultured.irc4android

That sounds like a horrible idea from a privacy and security standpoint, not to mention it'd attract a lot of people who would troll you by signing your email up to spam/porn/dating sites etc.

Anyways if you wanted to do that you'd probably want to look at a script that connects via IMAP to your mail server every minute or so, pulls any new mail and then pushes it out to an IRC server. You could probably also use a service like IFTTT to help with some of the heavy lifting.

"Subway" (found here) is similar, but it is currently under development.

I am not sure if it plans to provide all the functionality of irccloud, but it might be worth a look.

You could use sasl if the network supports it. Basically you identify to nickserv before you are fully connected to the network.

https://freenode.net/kb/answer/sasl

What network(s) are you using?

> assuming that you authenticate with NickServ and let the cloak get applied before you join any channels

Rather assuming you use SASL and only connect when authentication is successful.

You can get a free "cloak" on Freenode if you ask for it.

https://freenode.net/faq.shtml#cloaks

It's good to enough to stop everyone except Freenode staff from seeing your IP, assuming that you authenticate with NickServ and let the cloak get applied before you join any channels. Your IRC client should allow you to set this up.

Set umode +x on connect and connect via SSL, the standard port for which is 6697. For some servers you can log in to services via the server password which is sent on-connect, so if you have a vHost via HostServ or similar it will be activated immediately as opposed to whenever you identify manually.

If you have an external server or access to a shell account which allows IRC, you can set up a BNC. A BNC basically acts as a proxy for IRC, with the added benefit of being always online, so your home (or work, or school) IP address will be hidden and instead replaced with the IP address of your server. Most BNCs will save messages for you while you are offline and can be connected to via a regular IRC client. I use ZNC, try it out.

As you're a fan of Limechat, have you tried Textual 5? Since Limechat is no longer under development, an awesome developer forked it, and made tons of improvements. It's not free, but it absolutely is worth the minimal cost.

https://weechat.org/files/doc/devel/weechat_quickstart.en.html

ctrl+F for username & realname; username is the option you're asking for (the 'jsmith' in ''), but you probably want to address 'realname' while you're there.

> 11.Updated SSL routines to allow both static and dynamic linking of > OpenSLL with mIRC. mIRC now comes with OpenSSL 1.0.1h linked > statically, so SSL is available without needing external DLLS. > However, if mIRC finds a newer version of OpenSSL on your system, > it will load that automatically. > > 12.Added SSL option that allows you to control whether the internal > or external version of OpenSSL is loaded, by adding "load=N" to the > [ssl] section in mirc.ini, where N = 0 means "use internal, external > if newer", N = 1 means "use external always", and N = 2 means "use > internal always". The default is 0. If no external is available, or > there is an error loading external, internal is used.

http://www.mirc.com/versions.txt

tl;dr If newer versions of OpenSSL are installed then mIRC will use those instead of the old internal version.

It depends on a number of things. If you're using a paid-for anonymlsing VPN provider (like NordVPN for example) which redirects all your traffic through their gateway, then your real IP address won't ever be shown to the IRC server - so theoretically, you are "safer".

If it's just a VPN which lets you connect to another network and doesn't route all traffic (for example, it uses split tunnelling) then no, your real IP will likely still be given to the server and you won't be any "safer".

Most networks have some form of IP spoofing which is enough to keep everyone except IRC admins/operators from seeing your IP. If you were to click on a targeted link that someone sends you on IRC, however, they could still get your real IP that way. With an anonymising VPN to hide your traffic, though, they'd only get the VPN IP.

Some of the downsides of using a VPN are:

• DCC transfers generally won't work - sometimes they won't work at all, sometimes you'll need extra configuration/settings
• some IRC networks block connections from known VPN providers to prevent abuse/trolling/ban evasion etc
• if someone else on the same VPN as you gets banned from the network, it may affect you too

Mines through ramnode, seems like they don't have any promos going on right now, so it's $15/year. I have the 128M server:

https://www.ramnode.com/vps.php

Here's the tutorial I used to setup ZNC:

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-znc-an-irc-bouncer-on-an-ubuntu-vps

If you have any questions, let me know, and I'll do my best to answer them quickly.

Of course a server is capable of running a bot.. You can get a VPS from somewhere like digitalocean for $5 a month and run whatever you wish. It would be configurable over ssh so no webui is required.

(Just make sure your C# program compiles with mono on linux and referral link for $10 credit https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=4ba63fec1971 :P)

Depending on your budget and time you are willing to put into maintenance you have a number of options.

You could go for a PaaS provider such as Heroku which will provide you with a platform to run your code on. You don't need to worry about updates or system security as they take care of it all. I like Heroku as they offer a free option to get things started, and all their pricing is per app, not per account. The downside of them for you, is that they offer linux based systems, so you would have to be running using mono, which is the open source .NET implementation.

An alternative you could consider is AppHarbour. I don't know much about them, but they look to offer a nice PaaS setup for .NET based apps. I'm sure there are others out there, but I don't know anything about them as I'm not a windows dude outside of work.

If you don't mind looking after an entire system, you can look at options such as AWS (expensive), or Digital Ocean (cheap but linux only). These will give you an entire server that you will need to manage yourself, but can be used to host multiple apps such as a bouncer and anything else you might want always on.

This. Connecting to your bouncer via VPN doesn't change what the IRC network is going to see. If you want your bouncer's IP address hidden on IRC, your best option would be to route ZNC through Tor with SSL. Unfortunately, freenode's Tor service is down.

You may be able to route ZNC through your VPN to hide your VPS IP as well. ZNC doesn't have any sort of native support for this, although you can set a bindhost (may be able to connect your VPS to your VPN and set ZNC's bindhost accordingly). If that doesn't work, the other option is to setup the server to route all the ZNC traffic through the VPN, either by iptables & default routes, or setting up a network namespace and running ZNC inside of it.

You could use a web client like qwebirc with a bouncer like znc to achieve what you're looking for, but would require you hosting it on a VPS or similar and you'd have to configure where should connect and what modules you want loaded.

Disclaimer: I only know of irccloud because of their presence on freenode, and I have never administered ZNC myself, although I have provided shells for others to do so. (I use irssi in screen and qwebirc exclusively.)

With Weechat it's pretty easy, just add a -ssl flag when you add a server, and make sure you're using that server's SSL address/port.

Take OFTC server for example:

1. Go to OFTC home page to find the server address. Observe that there are two addresses, one for SSL (ircs://irc.oftc.net:6697) and for non-SSL (irc://irc.oftc.net:6667).
2. To add the SSL server: /server add oftc irc.oftc.net:6697 -ssl
3. You can change oftc to whatever you want it to be, like oftc-ssl or whatever.

That's it.

> InspIRCd is at 2.0.23 - should upgrade

That is the latest build available for Linux Mint 18 it seems. apt-get upgrade shows 0 updates available.

>Keep in mind the names are case sensitive

Got that already.

>Never store passwords in plaintext. Use a hash.

Will learn that once I get the basics working. This setup is not likely ever to see public facing functionality. Just something for me to learn on.

> Are you connecting to the machine via localhost / 127.0.0.1? If not, you won't be able to oper up.

Yes I am. I've tried both actually, just to see if there was a difference because once I was reminded of log files (and for some reason, I've yet to remember this...) I saw "the following fields do not match: hosts" in there.

>Assuming all of this has been done correctly, have you restarted or had someone rehash the configs?

After any changes, I restarted the daemon.

>The configs are not automatically updated in InspIRCd when changed. Did you include the oper config file in your inspircd.conf if it's in a separate file?

It's not a separate file but contained within the inspircd.conf file

I have essentially been following these directions.

As the config file is on a different machine, it's rather difficult to post it here. Will do that when I'm not ready to fall asleep at the keyboard....after coffee in the morning :)

Banlist #kali-linux @ freenode: https://hastebin.com/yapuqizane.rb

My guess is that your identified hostmask is banned and HexChat identifies you upon connecting while neither mIRC or kiwi does.

Check if anything on that list matches you.

What I see on the screenshot is that you made everything black and think it's ugly. Customize it. 'IRC on windows' is not a single or even a group of applications; IRC is an internet protocol which just requires a client to connect to.

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I don't think what you want is a dark theme, I think you want an interface designed with CSS. That is a different question than 'wanting a dark theme'- you should know what you really want if you're going to call things ugly.

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https://quassel-irc.org/files/images/snapshot13.preview.png Look into Quassel if you want a bubbly 'modern' interface

You need to get a certificate from a recognized CA (Certificate Authority). The most popular one is Let's Encrypt.

There are lots of tutorials on the Internet about using it with an HTTP server; it works in the same way except you would load the certificates in InspIRCd (with a similar config to what you already have) instead of nginx/apache/...

I am called a stalker. yet she joins the channels I am in mostly. I may make a comment every now and then while she makes an article about me? You can join EFNet on #thepiratebay.org & #norway and see the content she writes.. she is obsessed with dudis and couple of other people.

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She has posted on reddit before, in this subreddit, but she deleted her accounts. I didn't have one, I just made an account to comment on this.

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ShadowDog | aiports are open

sunsea | OK IM COMING

ShadowDog | you will need a good reason to be accepted though

sunsea | NOW

ShadowDog | and will need 14 day quarantine

sunsea | i need to have sex with norwgains?

sunsea | hahahaha, thats what cyprus does, lol

applegroo | you can tell them you are gonna marry Skyrider

sunsea | i will get free hotel in norway for 14 days?

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2020-04-09 14:09:02 sunsea we cnanot know UNLESS HACKERS HACK THE CHINESE GOV EMAILS ---> WE NEED ASSANGE

2020-04-09 14:09:14 sunsea ?

2020-04-09 14:10:19 sunsea assange would hack emails in chinese gov and find out the ruth

2020-04-09 14:12:59 sunsea weibo?

2020-04-09 14:13:48 sunsea did u see the video where one chinese guy tries to drive with car outside WuHan and he is being picked with a lace trap for fish?

2020-04-09 14:13:50 sunsea lol

2020-04-09 14:14:06 sunsea assange is austrlian

2020-04-09 14:14:09 sunsea fyi

2020-04-09 14:14:46 sunsea blowmeok^: are you here oh darlings?

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You can get a amazon AWS free for a year, and their free tier is more than robust enough to run a znc. I run my own znc on my aws that I started paying for after my free year ran out. It costs about $10 a month in total running three accounts on my znc (for myself and two friends) so a single user should be less, I imagine.

https://aws.amazon.com/free/

That, or you could try irccloud, but they have activity timeouts for their free stuff.

I think I explained it pretty pooly, let me try again. As of now I have it setup to to yada.1 etc and I can successfully go back through them one by one. What I am looking to do is something like %yada.nick and I am wondering if I can then cycle through them without the index being numbers (1 2 3) etc. php has http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.foreach.php which will loop through the array regardless if the index are numbers in succession (1 2 3). Does mSl have something like that or am I stuck naming them %yada.1 %yada.2 and them going through them all everytime I want to check if a value is currently in there.

What I am trying to do is add everyone who joins to %yada via %yada.1 %yada.2 etc. If they leave I want to unset them from there but without knowing the index I would have to sort through them all. I am wondering if I named them yada.nick could I still cycle through the array one index at a time even though its not .1 .2 etc.

I am terrible at trying to explain this but I very much do appreciate you taking the time!

My initial post wasn't well worded. It may be "our" internal IRC server, but I don't own it. I can't put a Matrix or IRCCloud server anywhere in our network. I can only use a client.

I did find a Ferdi recipe for The Lounge. The Lounge runs as a server on localhost, provides a web interface for your browser, and connects to any IRC server. It's not a standalone client, but it's easy enough to fire up the server and let it run in the background while Ferdi acts as my client. The only downside is having to restart The Lounge server if I restart my laptop.

I now have a single messaging front end. I'd still be interested in anything that doesn't involve running something like The Lounge's server on my laptop.

HexChat dev here; Your Ubuntu command is wrong but anyway I suggest all Linux users get hexchat via Flatpak: flatpak install https://flathub.org/repo/appstream/io.github.Hexchat.flatpakref

For Android there is Quasseldroid, which I am using.
For iOS there apparently is iQuassel, though I don't know how polished that is.

I know this doesn’t answer your question. I know such chats exists but I only know of any for Ebooks and Anime.

For the shows you want they’re on public trackers but searching a ton of public trackers can be a pain in the arse

Here’s what to do install Jackett and configure it with as many decent public trackers in the list. Then the use search function to find what you are looking for.

Try using another port.

Also it is not a WEB CLIENT like KiwiIRC. It's a transport for such kinds of clients. It can be used to build your own, or use such clients like https://sr.ht/~emersion/gamja/

Scripting in eggdrop is in Tcl. Events are bound using bind:

bind pub - !test myproc

proc myproc {nick host handle chan text} { putserv "PRIVMSG $chan :Hello world" }

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.5/tutorial/tcltutorial.html

putserv sends a raw IRC command. Google IRC RFC for the standard, but essentially all you probably need to know is:

• Message syntax: "COMMAND TARGET :TEXT"

• PRIVMSG sends a normal message (channel or private), a CTCP request is also a PRIVMSG but the text is surrounded by ascii character 1; the command is the first word.

• NOTICE sends a notice, and also doubles as CTCP response if the text is wrapped in ascii character 1.

Eggdrop has its own command for setting channel modes:

pushmode CHANNEL MODE NICKNAME

(nickname only if required)

If you have a server, you can set up https://convos.chat to get a nice looking web app/client and a persistent connection to your favorite IRC server. There’s also a tutorial on how to set it up on DigitalOcean.

https://freenode.net/kb/answer/sasl

You need to actually set your client up to provide your username/password details during the connection stage. The server will just drop connections from a VPN that don't authenticate. It usually involves setting your nickname to be the same as your registered NickServ account and then putting your NickServ password in the "server password" field.

It is all pretty obvious, but here are some screenshots showing where the username and whatnot goes: https://freenode.net/sasl/sasl-hexchat.shtml

EDIT: Also for znc specifically: http://wiki.znc.in/HexChat

They are all separate networks.

if you want to be save you could access the ircnetwork via VPN or Proxy. Or you setup a bnc for yourself, like znc. There are some providers for that too...

If I look at http://wiki.znc.in/File:Webadmin-settings-dark-clouds.png from http://wiki.znc.in/ZNC I see that the servers listed in ZNC's network interface, allow for a password to be specified after ther server's host and port.

A bouncer basically works as both a client and a server. You need a place, such as a VPS, to run your bouncer from. It connects to the server as a client, and you connect to the bouncer as a server. It sits in the channels all day so you don't have to. You will be able to appear online and will be able to read a playblack of what happened in the channel after your return to the channel.

I use a bouncer called ZNC, the docs there are meh, but it's possible to get it working from. You will connect to the server via your bouncer as an IRC server.

Setting up a network, not really but it depends on how big you want it.

Client is how you connect to irc (You can find loads on google, I use irccloud.com a web based one)

And you join a network by getting a client then reading the docs to see how to add a network to your client.

You can use something like IRCcloud - join a channel on a network & it keeps you continuously connected (barring problems on the IRC server itself) so you can check in on it anytime and scroll back through past messages. Can be used from website or apps.

I use [WeeChat](https://weechat.org/] running the weechat relay and usually I use it with the Glowing Bear relay client, so I can just use it from a web browser anywhere.

IRC has been used as remote command and control between computers for nefarious actors for decades. It works for that, but most networks will consider that against their TOS. You can probably find a network that is fine with it for legitimate purposes, if you read around. If it's just an occasional message between two computers you own, I doubt anyone would care anyway. Just put them in a private query, and not on a channel with humans, obviously.

There are several encryption schemes people have concocted over IRC, but none are built in. Take a look in here for some examples.

If you are thinking about setting up your own IRC server for this, I would think that just using SSH would be much more straightforward.

yeah, ZNC will only keep messages when you're marked "AWAY", which happens automatically if all clients are disconnected.

you can make weechat set the away status if you're disconnected[0], or you can do /away manually when you disconnect.

[0]: with something like; https://weechat.org/scripts/source/screen_away.py.html/

WeChat is an orc client that supports SSL relays. There are clients that support the relay for iOS, web and Android. I actually found myself using the web client near universally.

https://weechat.org/

https://github.com/glowing-bear/glowing-bear

Same. I use Weechat (see: weechat.org) as my IRC client of choice. It runs on my Debian Stretch based KVM VPS.

I am still forced to use Slack at work, though.

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I don't like bloatness of modern IMs. It's just a waste of system resources and space on the screen.

Recently I was visiting my family and they still use 5Mb/s ADSL connection. Slack was really slow on it and consumed a lot of precious network resources. I haven't got any issues with IRC on my shell, though. I used SSH/Mosh (mosh.mit.edu) connection without any problems :)

> What's the command to install a script from the repo?

curl mostly. I think the word you mean with Weechat is a script manager. And yes irssi doesn't have a script manager. If I want a feature I either look it up, or just write one. irssi does have mouse support. There are scripts for filters, smart filters, read markers etc. No support for vertical buffer list(which I wouldn't really use) or vertical splits (though I think there is a bounty for this), and bracketed paste mode is being developed from what I understand.

I really do want to point out that the scripting API for weechat is superbad and a little on the terrifying scale of things. Specifically this.

Don't get me wrong, there are more options in weechat, and some features I wouldn't mind. But really I think the difference we have is a difference of prospective. Personally I would rather have a very simple client that I can extend to get only the feature set I want. It sounds like you would rather have a more feature packed chat client, which is completely acceptable.

The reason why suggested irssi over weechat, was they were asking for "No DCC, no scripting, no channel management, no frills wanted". irssi is about as frill-less as it gets. Plus I don't want to suggest something that has a know issue with that may cause a seriously bad exploitation vector.

Also, out of curiosity, what do you use bracketed paste for?

Everyone mentions irc cloud... I prefer https://thelounge.chat/

Its a bouncer and a client. Easy Docker deployment, and it has a great PWA to install on your phone or desktop computer.

So I have a mixed use. I use ios/android/windows/linux. I wanted one interface but multiple connections that irccloud only offered under a monthly fee.

I found https://thelounge.chat/ that gets rather close but is self hosted. If you load the hosted site you can install it as a webapp on both ios and android that acts just like a real app.

yeah it still works, well at least I s till use it, fastest download out there. My favourite tracker ixirc.com is not working anymore for a couple of months now - just google alternative XDCC search engines, and you're back in no time. Biggest networks for movies and stuff used to be Abjects with their Moviegods channel, all have bots for search directly within the channel... try, experiment.

http://xchat.org/

I don't know about other clients, but in <em>irssi</em> (not GUI) you can just ignore these messages. Proper "friends" scripts should work.

/ignore -network freenode ##javascript JOINS PARTS QUITS NICKS Also:

/ignore JOINS PARTS QUITS /ignore -regexp -pattern "is (away|gone|back)" * ACTIONS

Its just something you setup on your desktop or server, so you'd install quassel and run quassel-core connect to it with a client and on the first run the client should ask you to create a new admin login. At least the desktop client does.

I think Hexchat is a spiffy IRC client: https://hexchat.github.io/ (if you want the actual program thing and not webchat - which is generally banned from most channels). Either that, or mIRC - http://www.mirc.com/ - works as well.

If you find an IRC network where people are all nice and want to chat without being awful to one another, then let me know.

PS: noeatnosleep is whoring himself spamming his network (which isn't nearly as nice as he makes it sound).

What operating system are you using? I'm assuming Windows.

Have you tried Hexchat?

what about mIRC?

Both expandable in the fact that Hexchat supports Python\Perl, and mIRC supports its own scriptable language.

I will wager the security of my server on known software with years of exploit and bug hunting than a new daemon.

FWIW, I use Unreal IRCd, and I think it's excellent. As long as your system is configured properly, you shouldn't have too many issues. But running an IRCd is a lot like work.

For everyone else, there's Slack.

> IRC has all of these.

Indeed. Check the comment I was replying to, which suggested Telegram and Signal as systems better than IRC. My point is if we're going with a "better" IM system, it probably shouldn't be one like Telegram, whose server is closed source and proprietary, or one like Signal, whose author doesn't even want third party clients made for the service. Neither seem worth suggesting as IRC replacements to me for these reasons; to me, one of the great things about IRC is how the protocol is standardized, and most of the main servers and clients are free/open. Both of these are true of Matrix as well.

> the ability for networks to deal with abuse by allowing who can connect to their networks

Matrix supports this for homeservers; there is a whitelisting option to prevent it from federating with servers that aren't on in the whitelist.

You mention Mastodon as well, another federated protocol which also supports this, in the form of domain blocklists.

> It also almost universally results in there being one giant node which essentially gets to dictate policy for the other nodes (e.g. Mastodon.social, Matrix.org) which defeats the point of federation entirely.

I don't really think this was caused by the fact that these are federated protocols. And of course if the giant nodes become problematic, users can always switch to another, and in Matrix's case, do so without losing access to any of the rooms they were using.

Servers ultimate claims it can run an irc server on Android. Never tried it but maybe it leads you in the right direction?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.icecoldapps.serversultimate

I'm using an Android app for IRC on my Pixel Slate.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.countercultured.irc4android&amp;hl=en )

Seems to do the job for me.

It's a terminal application, so it won't run by default on Android. Thankfully, there's Termux; a terminal emulator with extensive Unix functionality.

Install that, and then install irssi using

pkg install irssi

And then run it by entering

irssi

> Is a channel just a chatroom based on a specific topic?

yes

> freenode-connect: Due to the persistent ongoing spam...

this is an informational notice, you can either ignore it or do: /mode yournick -R to disable the message blocking

> Welcome to the freenode Internet relay chat Network

this means you're golden, all the other messages (missing identd, missing hostname) are not important. You could install this identd software on your router (or forward ports), but why bother if it doesn't block you from entering freenode (or the network you want to be in)

> I want to use this on Android, good apps?

IRC has one major drawback, you will miss all messages when you don't have network connectivity. Thus it's not so well suited to use on Android. Recommendations usually circle around running "something IRC" on your "server/VPS" and connect to that using some specialised Android app (example: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iskrembilen.quasseldroid -- but you need to install and configure Quassel on a server which is accessible from the Internet)

ProXPN is a free VPN.

Pros: it is free and it gets the job done Cons: They try to get you to get a paid account and occasionally the connection is dropped on the free account. Like I said, though, it works.