there seems to be a problem with the IRC network... i can connect to several other IRC servers but nothing is populated in #synchronet... my own ircd can't even connect now... i'm surprised no one is talking about it...

i commented out my C and N lines for cvs yesterday morning since there was some problem preventing cvs from rejoining the network... that's the only edit to ircd.conf that has been made in the last week or two since i got it working and connected (again)...


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Re: IRC down?
By: Rampage to All on Tue Nov 13 2018 12:39:57

there seems to be a problem with the IRC network... i can connect to several other IRC servers but nothing is populated in #synchronet... my own ircd can't even connect now... i'm surprised no one is talking about it...

Nobody's talking about it because the problem is not widespread. There are 38 servers linked up right now.

i commented out my C and N lines for cvs yesterday morning since there was some problem preventing cvs from rejoining the network... that's the only edit to ircd.conf that has been made in the last week or two since i got it working and connected (again)...

What's your server - sestar.synchro.net? It was linked to cvs.synchro.net until a minute or so ago, when I booted it off. Try reconnecting. Maybe make sure that you don't have a forgotten instance of the ircd running (via jsexec or something).

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Rampage wrote:

there seems to be a problem with the IRC network... i can connect to several other IRC servers but nothing is populated in #synchronet... my own ircd

can't

even connect now... i'm surprised no one is talking about it...

i commented out my C and N lines for cvs yesterday morning since there was

some

problem preventing cvs from rejoining the network... that's the only edit to ircd.conf that has been made in the last week or two since i got it working

and

connected (again)...

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On 2018 Nov 13 13:26:16, you wrote to Rampage:

there seems to be a problem with the IRC network... i can connect to
several other IRC servers but nothing is populated in #synchronet...
my own ircd can't even connect now... i'm surprised no one is talking
about it...

Nobody's talking about it because the problem is not widespread.
There are 38 servers linked up right now.

interesting... using my irc client, i tried numerous connections to the "round-robin" irc.synchro.net host and none of the (5 or so) individual ircds i
got connected to populated #synchronet...

i commented out my C and N lines for cvs yesterday morning since
there was some problem preventing cvs from rejoining the network...
that's the only edit to ircd.conf that has been made in the last week
or two since i got it working and connected (again)...

What's your server - sestar.synchro.net?

yes...

It was linked to cvs.synchro.net until a minute or so ago, when I
booted it off.

interesting... sestar's ircd has been shutdown (via /die) since a little before
2018-11-12 06:35:54 -0500... is there another better command i should be using instead of /die?

interesting also that i tried, from within sbbs, the CTRL-P I instant message thing and sent a five line message to nelgin about it... i wrote to him because
of a statement mentioning sestar... that statement is also why i shut down sestar's ircd and removed the C and N lines for cvs... should i add them back??
the only ones i have now are for vert... i don't know if nelgin got my message or not... i did ask him to get word to someone who could remedy the problem...

Try reconnecting. Maybe make sure that you don't have a forgotten
instance of the ircd running (via jsexec or something).

i will try to reconnect again roughly around the time of this posting...

[time passes]

===== snip =====
********** Program start at 2018-11-14 08:54:40 -0500 ********** RUNCMD=/sbbs/exec/jsexec -l ircd

JSexec v3.17a-Linux (rev 1.200) Debug - Execute Synchronet JavaScript Module Compiled Nov 12 2018 07:17:52 with GCC 7.3.0

Loading configuration files from /sbbs/ctrl
JavaScript-C 1.8.5 2011-03-31
JavaScript: Creating runtime: 8388608 bytes
JavaScript: Initializing context (stack: 16384 bytes)

Reading script from /sbbs/exec/ircd.js
/sbbs/exec/ircd.js compiled in 0.02 seconds
SynchronetIRCd-1.3a(1.172) started.
Reading Config: /sbbs/ctrl/ircd.conf
Creating new socket object on port 6667
0004 IRC server socket bound to TCP port 6667
Routing: Auto-connecting to *.synchro.net
Routing: Connected! Sending info...
0005 Accepted new connection: 71.95.196.34 port 6667
Routing: from sestar.synchro.net: Link with vert.synchro.net[unknown@vert.synchro.net] established, states: TS
Routing: from sestar.synchro.net: vert.synchro.net has processed user/channel burst, sending topic burst.
Routing: from sestar.synchro.net: vert.synchro.net has processed topic burst (synched to network data).
Routing: from vert.synchro.net: sestar.synchro.net has processed user/channel burst, sending topic burst.
Routing: from vert.synchro.net: sestar.synchro.net has processed topic burst (synched to network data).
===== snip =====

and we're reconnected again... thanks!

in case this happens again, what is the best/fastest way to get word to someone
who can fix the problem? as noted, i did try connecting to other ircds in the network with my client but wasn't able to get anything to populate...

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Re: IRC down?
By: mark lewis to echicken on Wed Nov 14 2018 15:03:54

interesting... using my irc client, i tried numerous connections to the "round-robin" irc.synchro.net host and none of the (5 or so) individual ircds i got connected to populated #synchronet...

Which ones did you connect to?

interesting... sestar's ircd has been shutdown (via /die) since a little before 2018-11-12 06:35:54 -0500... is there another better command i should be using instead of /die?

Using /die is probably best, but even that shouldn't be necessary. Someone's BBS might crash and not disconnect gracefully, and they should be able to reconnect.

For whatever reason, cvs.synchro.net didn't think that your server had disconnected, so it wasn't letting you reconnect. I'd have to dig pretty deep into the IRCD to figure out why, and I'm not too keen on that.

why i shut down sestar's ircd and removed the C and N lines for cvs... should i add them back?? the only ones i have now are for vert... i don't

Were they just the default C/N lines from the stock ircd.conf? If so, you can add them back. If you modified them, maybe not.

in case this happens again, what is the best/fastest way to get word to someone who can fix the problem? as noted, i did try connecting to other ircds in the network with my client but wasn't able to get anything to populate...

Normally I'd say just connect to another server on the network, but obviously that didn't work out too well. It'd be interesting to know which servers you got sent to.

You can email echicken -at- bbs.electronicchicken.com. If I'm awake and in any position to fix the problem, I'll see it and do something soon enough.

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echicken wrote:

Re: IRC down?
By: mark lewis to echicken on Wed Nov 14 2018 15:03:54

interesting... using my irc client, i tried numerous connections to the
"round-robin" irc.synchro.net host and none of the (5 or so) individual
ircds i got connected to populated #synchronet...

End Of The Line BBS is in the round robin list and I can confirm that #synchronet is populated. Maybe you mistyped it? ;)

interesting... sestar's ircd has been shutdown (via /die) since a little
before 2018-11-12 06:35:54 -0500... is there another better command i
should be using instead of /die?

Using /die is probably best, but even that shouldn't be necessary.

Someone's

BBS might crash and not disconnect gracefully, and they should be able to reconnect.

Usually /die yes but considering that it appears /die may be leaving hung connetions around it might be better to /squit yourself first then /die.

For whatever reason, cvs.synchro.net didn't think that your server had disconnected, so it wasn't letting you reconnect. I'd have to dig pretty

deep

into the IRCD to figure out why, and I'm not too keen on that.

This happened before, a few weeks ago if you remember, so there's something going on but I agree. Who wants to poke around in a javascript ircd!

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On 2018 Nov 14 15:45:32, you wrote to me:

interesting... using my irc client, i tried numerous connections to
the "round-robin" irc.synchro.net host and none of the (5 or so)
individual ircds i got connected to populated #synchronet...

Which ones did you connect to?

frugalbb, nolan, tesbbs, pharcyde, grudgedu, toxic

interesting... sestar's ircd has been shutdown (via /die) since a
little before 2018-11-12 06:35:54 -0500... is there another better
command i should be using instead of /die?

Using /die is probably best, but even that shouldn't be necessary. Someone's BBS might crash and not disconnect gracefully, and they
should be able to reconnect.

ok... i'll stick with /die, then...

For whatever reason, cvs.synchro.net didn't think that your server had disconnected, so it wasn't letting you reconnect.

yeah, that happened once before, too...

I'd have to dig pretty deep into the IRCD to figure out why, and I'm
not too keen on that.

i can understand that ;)

why i shut down sestar's ircd and removed the C and N lines for
cvs... should i add them back?? the only ones i have now are for
vert... i don't

Were they just the default C/N lines from the stock ircd.conf? If so,
you can add them back. If you modified them, maybe not.

yes, they are the default ones for cvs... the only C/N lines i modified are the
ones for vert to add my QWK password...

in case this happens again, what is the best/fastest way to get word
to someone who can fix the problem? as noted, i did try connecting to
other ircds in the network with my client but wasn't able to get
anything to populate...

Normally I'd say just connect to another server on the network, but obviously that didn't work out too well.

ikr?

It'd be interesting to know which servers you got sent to.

see above :)

You can email echicken -at- bbs.electronicchicken.com. If I'm awake
and in any position to fix the problem, I'll see it and do something
soon enough.

thank you... i still have no idea if my CTRL-P I message was even seen by nelgin :/ it may have ended up in his scrollback buffer and he just simply missed it... i don't know where those messages go; if they end up just being displayed when they arrive or if they end up in the mail message base or somewhere else...

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On 2018 Nov 14 17:31:12, you wrote to echicken:

interesting... using my irc client, i tried numerous connections to
the "round-robin" irc.synchro.net host and none of the (5 or so)
individual ircds i got connected to populated #synchronet...

End Of The Line BBS is in the round robin list and I can confirm that #synchronet is populated. Maybe you mistyped it? ;)

i didn't type anything... my client is set to connect to irc.synchro.net and the client gets told which system to connect to from there... typos would be a problem at that point...

interesting... sestar's ircd has been shutdown (via /die) since a
little before 2018-11-12 06:35:54 -0500... is there another better
command i should be using instead of /die?

Using /die is probably best, but even that shouldn't be necessary.
Someone's BBS might crash and not disconnect gracefully, and they
should be able to reconnect.

Usually /die yes but considering that it appears /die may be leaving
hung connetions around it might be better to /squit yourself first
then /die.

hummm... i've never used /squit... i'll have to try to look that up and see how
it works... if that is the thing to do, i should be able to /squit sestar from cvs on my own, right?

For whatever reason, cvs.synchro.net didn't think that your server had
disconnected, so it wasn't letting you reconnect. I'd have to dig
pretty deep into the IRCD to figure out why, and I'm not too keen on
that.

This happened before, a few weeks ago if you remember, so there's something going on but I agree. Who wants to poke around in a
javascript ircd!

-=B-)

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Re: IRC down?
By: mark lewis to echicken on Thu Nov 15 2018 08:13:26

frugalbb, nolan, tesbbs, pharcyde, grudgedu, toxic

These ones appear to be linked now, not sure if they were then. Perhaps whatever hub they were on was having trouble.

Normally I'd say just connect to another server on the network, but
obviously that didn't work out too well.

Another thing to do in these cases would be to connect to vert.synchro.net or cvs.synchro.net rather than irc.synchro.net. Other servers will generally be linked to one of these.

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