Last modified: 2009-06-29 16:44:34 UTC
Whoever reconfigured the IRC feed last time it was reconfigured changed something, which they doubtless thought was purely internal, such that the user the feeds come from is no longer "rc@localhost" but "rc@I.still.hate.packets". Some tools were checking for precisely "rc!~rc@localhost" (I didn't want to accept messages from just anyone as private messages are enabled on irc.wikimedia.org and that would let people screw with others' clients), and so it broke when this was changed, as probably did other things. While this was a bit stupid of me, and I will change my code to be a bit more flexible in what it accepts, the "I.still.hate.packets" thing should probably be changed, particularly since IRC has line length limits and we already have problems with messages getting cut off at the end; we don't need 10 superfluous characters in there.
I will tkae care of that as soon as possible. For some reason, I.still.hate.packets is the irc server's default. However that is easy enough to change. It will be localhost in ten minutes. --Fred
All fixed. Well almost. the server is actually "resolving" locahost for 127.0.0.1, but it is closer than the alternative.
(In reply to comment #2) > All fixed. Well almost. the server is actually "resolving" locahost for > 127.0.0.1, but it is closer than the alternative. Thanks for the quick response. 127.0.0.1 is fine, it makes sense and also same length as "localhost" so no wasted characters.
