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Article #534Deghosted users...
From: Valdis Kletnieks
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:52
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 22:52
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As the guy who wrote the code that causes it, I guess I'll explain.. ;) Basically, RELAY runs over bitnet, which is an "unreliable" network in that if a message is lost between relays, the relay might not be notified of the fact. So what will happen is that a short link outage will cause messages to be lost, but for the inter-relay connection to not be broken. Now, one of the messages that got lost might be a /signon being propogated through the network. This causes a "ghost" user. You can't see him on a /names, or a /whois, but his messages show up on the channel - usually as <<somenick>> Hello? Can anybody hear me? WHy wont anybody talk to me? repeated over and over.... If the user does a /nick or a /chan command, RELAY can then *partially* recover from the condition. However, the "full name" information is not available at that point, so the code has to substitute something instead. I chose "*Deghosted User*" to make it clear what happened.. /Valdis
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10771c,123555dcac8b825c,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10771c,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1993-01-20 15:30:30 PST Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!paladin.american.edu!auvm!VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU!VALDIS Organization: Virginia Polytechnic Institute Message-ID: <930120.175216.EST.VALDIS@vtvm1.cc.vt.edu> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.relusr-l Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1993 17:52:16 EST Sender: Relay Users Forum <RELUSR-L@NCSUVM.BITNET> From: Valdis Kletnieks <VALDIS@VTVM1.CC.VT.EDU> Subject: Deghosted users... Lines: 21