Re: european servers.. (fwd)

[Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please read my mail below and I would appreciate if you would consider 
including this in the 2.9 version of ircd that is used on IRCnet.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx

(this is a mail sent to the EFnet routing list)

<stuff related to another routing case deleted>

Not directly this, but I have a similar problem.

I have my US uplinks in one class. I have irc.ced.chalmers.se in one class
and I have all my downlinks in one class. Now, if irc.ced.chalmers.se is
connected to me, and one of my US uplinks is down (cerf was the other day)
my server keeps trying to connect to it. When it eventually comes up, it
might be so unfortunate that it cannot connect to its uplinks before I
connect to it. This is undesirable.

Is there a way to keep the functionality (I always want to connect to
irc.ced.chalmers.se if possible, and I want to connect to the US if none
of my uplinks is connected to the *NET*, not only if they are not
connected to me). with the current options, or do we need new server
configlines to reach this?

It would be nice with a config that allows me to set that "activate
autoconnects in this connection class if all the following servers are not
currently listed in the online server list". Wildcards would be nice when
specifying this.

For instance, I would put a limitation on my uplinks if there was a
com/net/org server online at the moment (since we have none of these in
Europe right now).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx