Still nothing. Can I close all instances of port 53, 953, and 123 (DNS and NTP)?
:~# tail -f ~/.darkcoin/debug.log
2014-05-16 20:01:08 trying connection 192.99.32.166:9999 lastseen=86.7hrs
2014-05-16 20:01:08 connect() failed after select(): Connection refused
2014-05-16 20:01:09 trying...