> Why efnet? They're the only people that I know that still require identd.
> Unfortunately, I would have to reconfigure the firewall here just so I can
> get on that net. Has anyone else run in to this problem or am I the only
> one sitting behind a firewall'd system?
Some servers allow connections from clients with no ident server running.
http://www.efnet.org/servers.html
IRC from a shell not through NAT. Or get an ident server that works with
masqueraded clients.