Re: Mesh linking - technical (Was: Re: [Unreal-users] Plannedfeatures for 3.3?)

[Trocotronic <tro...@ra...>]

Hi,

So, what will happen with PRIVMSG?
Imagine this schema:

A -- B
|        |
C -- D

User 1 ison A, and user 2 ison D. User1 queries to user2. Which server must 
send the message? Which way A have to choose? Through C or through B? Both?

Instead using line numbers and storing amount of data, servers could use 
"ghost users". In Syzop's case, server C introduce a "ghost user" with 
"nodata" as an ident, ip, realname, etc. and mark him as a ghost too. So, 
users on C will see
"Trocotronic!nodata@nodata JOIN #chan
userB MODE #chan +v Trocotronic"
When server C will receive USER command from A, it will store new data and 
will send a part/join into #chan to users on C (as /mode +x and 
set::allow-userhost-change is set to force-rejoin, I remember) and users on 
C will see
"Trocotronic!nodata@nodata PART #chan
Trocotronic!myident@myhost JOIN #chan
serverC MODE #chan +v Trocotronic"

Idem for KICK, PART and so on.

Trocotronic.
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