[IRCServices] ping timeouts..

[Chris Knipe]

Services does NOT timeout form the network should there be inactivity... I do my development on Dalnet Dreamforge,
and these services, and these services.

The problem is NOT with the IRCD of the Services. I know this seeing for the fact that I run my network on the
192.168.x.x ip ranges, also all on the same machine. Currently my IRCD + Services is idle for about 15 days, without
any splits, or ping timeouts from clients, or servers.

The problem however as mentioned, CAN be the YLine, and I so also suggest that you do NOT attempt to play with, or
change those lines unless you are sure about what you are doing. The "standard " ylines stated in most of the
example.conf's or more precisly, the one that comes with DAL IRCD, is more than adiquite for just about any
connection to your irc server, as far as clients and servers go, and I do suggest that you work from defaults, and
start modifying from there (SHOULD you have further problems or a need to).

Best Regards
Chris Knipe


Tyson La Tourrette wrote:

> Hmm, OK.
>
> If there is no activity in the server for several hours is it
> plasusible to use services? I am testing to see if ircd + services
> would work as a chat service for unversity classes. But if services
> is going to time out when there is no activity I may need to look
> elsewhere =(
>
> Currently this is my Y line
>
> Y:99:5:5:1:1000000
>
> ReadTimeout is 60s
>
> I am now connecting through 127.0.0.1 but I don't think it matters.
>
> Here is a log from startup to timeout.
>
> [Sep 08 07:31:03 1999] Services 4.3pre4 (compiled for ircd.dal 4.4.15+) starting up
> [Sep 08 07:31:03 1999] smalloc: Illegal attempt to allocate 0 bytes
> [Sep 08 07:31:03 1999] Databases loaded
> [Sep 08 07:31:03 1999] unknown message from server (alot.cat.pdx.edu NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...)
> [Sep 08 07:31:03 1999] unknown message from server (ot.cat.pdx.edu NOTICE AUTH :*** Found your hostname)
> [Sep 08 07:31:03 1999] unknown message from server (PROTOCTL NOQUIT TOKEN WATCH=128 SAFELIST)
> [Sep 08 07:36:13 1999] unknown message from server (P)
> [Sep 08 07:36:13 1999] unknown message from server (NG :zealot.cat.pdx.edu)
> [Sep 08 07:36:18 1999] unknown message from server (ERROR :Closing Link: 127.0.0.1[0.0.0.0] (Ping timeout))
> [Sep 08 07:36:18 1999] Read error from server: No such file or directory
>
> Once again, thanks for your help.
>
> Tyson
>
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