Discussion:
Force IRSSI to use a particular nick only and retry infinitely until it gets that
Abhijeet Rastogi
2013-05-16 05:46:16 UTC
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Hi,

I run IRSSI 24x7. I sometimes receive a message like "Irssi: No PONG reply
from server irc.freenode.net in 301 seconds, disconnecting" and when it
tries to reconnect, it says my nick already in use. After that, instead of
using "abcdefgi", it starts using "abcdefg1". It's annoying as I don't know
when it got changed.

I already have my nick specified in irssi config but still it starts using
a new nick. Why?

fn = {
type = "IRC";
nick = "abcdefghi";
autosendcmd = "/^msg nickserv IDENTIFY accessed";
};

Is there anything that I can do about that? Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
http://blog.abhijeetr.com
tamouse mailing lists
2013-05-17 05:06:49 UTC
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This is typical behaviour of irssi (and many other irc clients): when
the nick you want to join with is already in use, it appends things to
the nick you specified until it finds one that is not in use. There
are settings in irssi to give an alternate nick if this happens.

The reason your desired nick is still in use on the freenode network
is that it hasn't had a chance to time out from being disconnected
yet. The thing to do when that happens is use freenode's nickserv
GHOST command, which you can read up on via /msg nickserv help ghost
when you're logged in.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Abhijeet Rastogi
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
Hi,
I run IRSSI 24x7. I sometimes receive a message like "Irssi: No PONG reply
from server irc.freenode.net in 301 seconds, disconnecting" and when it
tries to reconnect, it says my nick already in use. After that, instead of
using "abcdefgi", it starts using "abcdefg1". It's annoying as I don't know
when it got changed.
I already have my nick specified in irssi config but still it starts using a
new nick. Why?
fn = {
type = "IRC";
nick = "abcdefghi";
autosendcmd = "/^msg nickserv IDENTIFY accessed";
};
Is there anything that I can do about that? Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
http://blog.abhijeetr.com
Abhijeet Rastogi
2013-05-17 05:15:14 UTC
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Hey,

I finally got the solution. I used sasl.pl to pre-authenticate to freenode
which solved the problem.


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:36 AM, tamouse mailing lists <
Post by tamouse mailing lists
This is typical behaviour of irssi (and many other irc clients): when
the nick you want to join with is already in use, it appends things to
the nick you specified until it finds one that is not in use. There
are settings in irssi to give an alternate nick if this happens.
The reason your desired nick is still in use on the freenode network
is that it hasn't had a chance to time out from being disconnected
yet. The thing to do when that happens is use freenode's nickserv
GHOST command, which you can read up on via /msg nickserv help ghost
when you're logged in.
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Abhijeet Rastogi
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
Hi,
I run IRSSI 24x7. I sometimes receive a message like "Irssi: No PONG
reply
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
from server irc.freenode.net in 301 seconds, disconnecting" and when it
tries to reconnect, it says my nick already in use. After that, instead
of
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
using "abcdefgi", it starts using "abcdefg1". It's annoying as I don't
know
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
when it got changed.
I already have my nick specified in irssi config but still it starts
using a
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
new nick. Why?
fn = {
type = "IRC";
nick = "abcdefghi";
autosendcmd = "/^msg nickserv IDENTIFY accessed";
};
Is there anything that I can do about that? Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
http://blog.abhijeetr.com
--
Regards,
Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
http://blog.abhijeetr.com
Joel Esler
2013-05-17 14:22:41 UTC
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You don't need a plugin to do that. IRSSI will auth to nickserv on it's own.
Hey,
I finally got the solution. I used sasl.pl to pre-authenticate to freenode which solved the problem.
This is typical behaviour of irssi (and many other irc clients): when
the nick you want to join with is already in use, it appends things to
the nick you specified until it finds one that is not in use. There
are settings in irssi to give an alternate nick if this happens.
The reason your desired nick is still in use on the freenode network
is that it hasn't had a chance to time out from being disconnected
yet. The thing to do when that happens is use freenode's nickserv
GHOST command, which you can read up on via /msg nickserv help ghost
when you're logged in.
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Abhijeet Rastogi
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
Hi,
I run IRSSI 24x7. I sometimes receive a message like "Irssi: No PONG reply
from server irc.freenode.net in 301 seconds, disconnecting" and when it
tries to reconnect, it says my nick already in use. After that, instead of
using "abcdefgi", it starts using "abcdefg1". It's annoying as I don't know
when it got changed.
I already have my nick specified in irssi config but still it starts using a
new nick. Why?
fn = {
type = "IRC";
nick = "abcdefghi";
autosendcmd = "/^msg nickserv IDENTIFY accessed";
};
Is there anything that I can do about that? Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
http://blog.abhijeetr.com
--
Regards,
Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
http://blog.abhijeetr.com
Abhijeet Rastogi
2013-05-19 04:50:39 UTC
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Hi Joel,

The problem with that is that when there is a disconnect or something,
Irssi can't connect via the same nick because it says it's in use. If
sasl.pl is used, it won't say so because my nick is pre-authenticated.
Post by Joel Esler
You don't need a plugin to do that. IRSSI will auth to nickserv on it's own.
Hey,
I finally got the solution. I used sasl.pl to pre-authenticate to
freenode which solved the problem.
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 10:36 AM, tamouse mailing lists <
Post by tamouse mailing lists
This is typical behaviour of irssi (and many other irc clients): when
the nick you want to join with is already in use, it appends things to
the nick you specified until it finds one that is not in use. There
are settings in irssi to give an alternate nick if this happens.
The reason your desired nick is still in use on the freenode network
is that it hasn't had a chance to time out from being disconnected
yet. The thing to do when that happens is use freenode's nickserv
GHOST command, which you can read up on via /msg nickserv help ghost
when you're logged in.
On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Abhijeet Rastogi
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
Hi,
I run IRSSI 24x7. I sometimes receive a message like "Irssi: No PONG
reply
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
from server irc.freenode.net in 301 seconds, disconnecting" and when it
tries to reconnect, it says my nick already in use. After that, instead
of
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
using "abcdefgi", it starts using "abcdefg1". It's annoying as I don't
know
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
when it got changed.
I already have my nick specified in irssi config but still it starts
using a
Post by Abhijeet Rastogi
new nick. Why?
fn = {
type = "IRC";
nick = "abcdefghi";
autosendcmd = "/^msg nickserv IDENTIFY accessed";
};
Is there anything that I can do about that? Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
http://blog.abhijeetr.com
--
Regards,
Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
http://blog.abhijeetr.com
--
Regards,
Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
http://blog.abhijeetr.com
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