How to prevent random server dropouts
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54468798754315348879 · 2015-03-14 16:48

I run irssi pretty much all the time on the background, connected to a
few irc servers.
Every once in a while, they disconnect (and irssi automatically
reconnects).

It usually builds up with a "lag: ... seconds" message, and eventually
"No PONG reply from server in 301 seconds, disconnecting".

Not all servers disconnect at the same time (so it's probably not
related to powersaving features), and connecting directly instead of
using a bnc doesn't make any difference.

It's kind of annoying though, and I have no clue what is causing it
and how to fix it.  Any ideas/hints (even silly ones) would be much
appreciated!

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tavaryn · 2015-03-14 19:46

My first guess would be that it's your internet. With intermittent
connection problems, you're not always guaranteed to get disconnected
from all servers at once if the outage doesn't last long enough to
trigger a ping timeout on all servers. I would do some connection
testing with the ping command in the command prompt of whatever OS you
use.

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54468798754315348879 · 2015-03-15 11:32

Thanks for commenting!
I tried different connections (I'm using a laptop).  It's the same
deal, both on my home LAN and at an internet café.
I left "ping 8.8.8.8" on all the time, an didn't notice a timeout in
the output.