[IRCServices] Ideas , features

[Sean Kelly]

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:30:57PM +0200, dreamer at darkness.gr wrote:
> Imagine that we have a network with
> 20 servers and the services. Imagine that it's late night and no oper is
> available, servers are spliting, and many times due to misconfigured
> ircd.conf files, autoconnects are not present. So the network will stay
> splited, until one oper will come and realise that half of the network is
> not connected. So .. What about puting some "intelligence" into the
> services.

Or, what about putting some intelligence into the server administrators on
said network?  What you describe should be implimented in the ircd itself
and be a suppliment to autoconnection to allow the network to determine
best links (possibly with a UDP routing protocol).  It would be very wrong
to put this into Services when the entire problem could be fixed by just
having your C/N:lines autoconnect and by using some SmartRoutes (a la
D:lines).

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