I'm running around 20 other alt-clients and this is the only one I've had this problem with.
I'm about to give up, I mean OP doesn't even have his own coin in his sig....
I have connections and am up to date (block 2254)...
Have you tried all of these?
addnode=37.130.227.140
addnode=117.1.46.73
addnode=79.196.195.23
addnode=192.241.171.45
And what does having my own coin in my sig have to do with anything?
As I said, there is no connection attempt to any nodes configured in sauronrings.conf. It's not that it tries to connect and fails, there is no connect attempt at all. No TCP SYN request for port 1892 is being generated by the client. I doubt that adding more nodes will help because it does not try to connect.
It has connected to the IRC server, but has never made an attempt to connect to peers.
New windows qt here: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B49exKIsGBn5c0t5ZGQ4X011MlU/edit