[IRCServices] Re: A minor.. issue..

w00t surreal.w00t at gmail.com
Wed Mar 30 19:47:18 PST 2005


Making services aware of themselves?! Whoa, that's certainly... interesting :P


On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 00:51:32 +0100, Craig McLure
<Craig at frostycoolslug.com> wrote:
> I think you have all missed the point in this post completly.
> 
> I wasn't talking about services killing neostats pseudos (Hell, as far
> as i'm concirned, thats good behaviour, and what exceptions are for).
> I'm talking about services KILLING ITS OWN PSUEODCLIENTS (ya know, like
> Operserv killing Nickserv / Chanserv / HelpServ) because their host has
> reached the session limit. I am unsure if this is a bug in our
> IRCServices module, or a problem with the core itself.
> 
> Note: This seems to be our fault, we echo connections back to the local
> server (something to do with the mesh iirc), making services aware of
> their existance. We'll fix it.
> 
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> 
> ongeboren wrote:
> 
> >>Kieron Thwaites Wrote :
> >>
> >>>Same issue noted with the alpha version of NeoStats 3.
> >>>
> >>>I'm thinking that Services should automatically exempt clients on U:lined
> >>>servers from session limits.
> >>
> >>even Neostats 2.5 series had the same problem along with any services that
> >>introduce a number of Pseudo Clients, so session exceptions must have been
> >>added for them if they were connected.
> >>
> >>the problem is finding out what are U-lined servers, as U-lines are not
> >>propagated by most IRCd's. The only real solution is adding an entry to the
> >>OperServ Exceptions list exempting the hosts used by the Pseudo Clients.
> >>
> >>DNB
> >>
> >>
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