Re: 1.3.64-1.3.70 loopback bugs

Christoph Lameter (clameter@miriam.fuller.edu)
Mon, 4 Mar 1996 21:40:13 -0800 (PST)


How can I use pipes when the IRC client also is used from remote
locations?

On Tue, 5 Mar 1996, Bryn Paul Arnold Jones wrote:

> On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > : > Alan
> > : >
> > : Well maybe you can summerise the outcome of the last 'descussion' so we
> > : don't have to 'descuss' it all over again, please. And the rest of you,
> > : just read it, and shutup.
> > There is clearly demonstrated problem with a flood ping and its
> > "not a bug". I am afraid we are developing the same attitude as
> > Gates & Co.
> >
> Well I assume he's F***** off with the subject (still). Anyway, I can
> see that having the loopback device not allow you to flood it with
> packets could be a good thing, as long as more reasonable spaced packets
> arn't effected in any way, but I suspect that it just can't handle the
> load, and drops packets.
>
> > How do I get my IRCD running again? Going back to 1.2.13 for good?
> >
> Ok, you don't want to go back to 1.2.13, but don't someone say to use
> pipes (or was that unix domain sockets) ?
> Bryn
> PS Gates, bar humbug
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