connecting on a private network

[John Saylor <johns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I'm developing a private irc network and I can't get my servers to talk
to each other!

I get a message like this:
*** Connecting to *@w.x.y.z[host.domain.tld].

And that's it- there is nothing on the &SERVERS channel and I can't see
any of the channels on the other server on this server.

I've checked the C/N pairs [and I'll do so again], but is there anything
else I should be looking at/for?

How can I monitor what's going on with the connection attempt?

merci bien.

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