Re: [Erc-help] failure to detect dropped connections

[Jorgen S. <fo...@fo...>]

Francis Litterio <fr...@wo...> writes:

> Alex Schroeder wrote:
>
>> Francis Litterio <fr...@wo...> writes:
>>
>>> I'm not aware of any explicit keepalive traffic that ERC sends, but
>>> if you have erc-notify loaded and a non-nil erc-notify-list, then
>>> ERC will attempt to send an ISON command to each server at least
>>> once a minute.  This is probably close enough to a real keepalive.
>>
>> What about this ping/pong stuff -- am I confusing things?
>
> I was forgetting about ping/pong.  That should be sufficient.

Not really. ERC responds with a PONG when the server sends a PING
- But if the connection is dropped, there is no PING. So ERC
doesn=B4t send a PONG either.

We once talked about doing a PING (to which the server should
respond with a PONG, which we could savely ignore) when we didn=B4t
get any traffic from the server in N minutes (for suitable,
defcustomizeable values of N), which would detect broken
connections. But I think ISON already does that in a nicer way *8)

Hm. Of course the Right Thing would be to fix emacs. Any
volunteers? ;)

Greetings,
        -- Jorgen

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