title: UnrealIRCD: Connecting to a Virtual Server from the Outside World
body: <p>World! Or should I say, Hello, LAN!
  I am extremely new to IRC, and I have several issues with operating UnrealIRCD. Because of the lack of in-depthness in operating the UnrealIRCD server, I can only connect to my local internal address.<br>
  I am running Unreal3.2 (UnrealIRCD) on a Linux dist. Ubuntu 14.04 in an 8GB dynamically allocated through a Virtual Machine. I am connecting through "Bridged Adapter".<br>
  While I do own a domain through GoDaddy, some have suggested switching the nameservers to freedns.afraid.org and creating a subdomain from there as 'irc.slouds.ca'.<br>
  UnrealIRCD however continues not to work from the host computer's external IP address. It does continue to function internally, though. I can connect to it using the virtual machine's local address.<br><br>
  Could somebody please solve this mystery?<br><br>
  When I attempt to connect to it through other machines using the irc.slouds.ca &amp; the host computer's external IP address.<br>
  I mainly care about the IP. If I could connect to the machine from an external source, I could use my IP address to communicate with trusted others.<br>
  My UnrealIRCD settings do not include SSL. (Maybe they should.)<br><br>
  Perhaps it has something to do with UnrealIRCD.conf? And if so, how do I spot the problem when it gave me no errors?</p>