Symptom: /connect irc.anyserver.com Irssi: Unable to connect server irc.freenode.net port 6667 [Cannot assign requested address: 208.69.36.132] Cause: Can‘t bind socket to the hostname specified in .irssi/config Same could happed to sshd. Solution: set hostname in config to the actual hostname, make sure there is an entry with bindable valid ip in /etc/host. to mask your ip, use cloak service on irc servers.
Irssi Error [Cannot assign requested address: x.x.x.x]
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