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[infobot.git] / src / IRC / Irc.pl

diff --git a/src/IRC/Irc.pl b/src/IRC/Irc.pl
index 84abc4b36c4a154ad695bdb61f257b24341253be..ad557ae6cc9dd8ec75037aedc794193fada20894 100644 (file)
--- a/src/IRC/Irc.pl
+++ b/src/IRC/Irc.pl
@@ -102,7 +102,11 @@ sub irc {
     $conn = $irc->newconn(%args);
 
     if (!defined $conn) {
-       &ERROR("internal: perl IRC connection object does not exist.");
+       &ERROR("IRC: connection failed.");
+       &ERROR("add \"set ircHost 0.0.0.0\" to your config. If that does not work");
+       &ERROR("Please check /etc/hosts to see if you have a localhost line like:");
+       &ERROR("127.0.0.1   localhost    localhost");
+       &ERROR("If this is still a problem, please contact the maintainer.");
        return 1;
     }
 
@@ -821,7 +825,7 @@ sub closeDCC {
 
     foreach $type (keys %dcc) {
        next if ($type ne uc($type));
- 
+
        my $nick;
        foreach $nick (keys %{ $dcc{$type} }) {
            next unless (defined $nick);