Thanks for the complete conf file. I'm discouraged as I pasted the entire file from yours and it still won't work. Seems like it should be simple. Also, there's no firewall on the computer.
Is this your configuration file?
server=1
daemon=1
listen=1
maxconnections=1024
rpcuser=user
rpcpassword=pass
rpcport=23461
addnode=176.24.105.181:23462
addnode=176.24.105.181:23462
addnode=84.200.4.67:23462
addnode=59.100.29.2:23462
addnode=142.179.7.102:23462
addnode=173.54.201.49:23462
addnode=98.226.35.5:23462
addnode=149.202.137.169:23462
addnode=71.192.210.155:23462
addnode=73.141.89.114:23462
addnode=72.241.235.204:23462
addnode=100.7.82.219:23462