[IRCServices] Desperate Problems

[Sean Kelly]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 06:44:06PM +0500, Imran Ali Rashid wrote:
> Umm Remember the problems I quoted earlier.
> 
> When there are more than two netsplits,  as in server B was connected to server A, server B splits, connects, splits and
> then when it connects, services die.
> This isn't the worst part.

I've seen this before here on SlashNET.  I think it has to do with StatServ code.
When I compile without it, the problem goes away.  When I compile with it, after
big periods of netsplits, services just ghost off.  The process keeps running,
but they ping timeout.  I've not had the time to do real debugging on it, and
I wouldn't want to do live debugging of it on SlashNET either...

> When I restart services, on joining as expected, people are told to change their nicks, otherwise they will be guested.
> Guess what. Most nicks are changed to the same Guest nick. See below:
> 
> [18:30] *** white_jazz is now known as Guest29047169
> [18:30] *** ``Spades`` is now known as Guest29147169
> [18:30] *** ABJ is now known as Guest29147169
> [18:31] *** Daru is now known as Guest48147206
> [18:31] *** Bad_very_bad_boy is now known as Guest48147206
> [18:31] *** DiEsEL is now known as Guest48147206
> [18:31] *** L3pR3cAuN is now known as Guest48047206

I've seen that too.  But that isn't related to the first issue.  There is some
issue with the nickname-number randomizer.  It likes to repeat.  I've seen
collisions of that before.  Again, I've not had the time to look into it, as
it isn't really a big issue in my opinion.

-- 
Sean Kelly <smkelly at zombie.org> or <smkelly at slashnet.org>
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