Re: Very strange behavior

[Christophe Kalt <kalt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 23, Christopher Masto wrote:
| I've been part of a small IRC network that has been using 2.8.x
| servers for the past couple of years.  We recently decided to
| standardize on 2.9.5, and some very strange problems have been
| occurring.  Basically, the servers seem to split like mad, and have a
| lot of trouble recovering.

Ouch, well I finally have the proof that there is still a
problem with this.  It's a very old bug (already present in
2.8.x) which was partly fixed in 2.9.3; unfortunately I have
believed for quite a while that the fix isn't entirely
right.

These problems occur when there are several simultaneous
server connections being established.  The result is a
server collision and it isn't always dealt with correctly.

A way to avoid this is to tune the auto connections, and be
careful to avoid having everything auto connect to
everything else.