[IRCServices Coding] call to introduce_users

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Sat Jun 1 11:47:24 PDT 2002


>Something that's not very important, but has caused a bit of trouble for 
>me is the time when introduce_users is called.
>IRCServices (4.x or 5.x) should wait for the hub to reply the 
>password(and compare it, why not?) before sending it's pseudo-clients 
>(nickserv,chanserv,etc).
>
>Actually it sends it's SERVER information and right after start flooding 
>the hub with its client information without waiting for the 'PASS' command.
>This create a problem with some ircds that won't accept this initial 
>flood and will just ignore it causing a introduce_user loop right after 
>the linking.

     Can you give me a specific example (ircd)?  I thought that all ircds
simply processed data in the order it came in without regard for timing,
and started sending the netburst on receipt of the SERVER message.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/