Re: european servers.. (fwd)

[Chris Behrens <cbehrens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What Mikael is looking for is something like 'crule', if not 'crule'
itself...for those who are familiar with it.  For those who are not,
it allows you to say such things as "don't autoconnect to server 'x' if
server 'y' exists somewhere already."  I wouldn't find this useful
for US servers if they don't autoconnect outside of the US, but it
can be useful for other areas like Europe where there may be many different
servers that can auto-conn to the US and you want to make sure to
not auto-conn to the US if there is already a US server present.

(Nice run-on sentence)

- Chris

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Chris Behrens
Software Engineer
Concentric Network Corporation

On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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