Why is my ZNC constantly whois'ing everyone?
reddit / irc

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gringlemingle · 2016-09-18 22:38

^Title, not sure why it's doing it?

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MuffinMedic · 2016-09-18 22:39

That's not standard behavior - what modules do you have enabled?

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gringlemingle · 2016-09-18 22:41

chansaver
control panel

could it be that it's because I'm connected via laptop and desktop?

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[deleted] · 2016-09-18 22:42

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Anonman9 · 2016-09-18 22:42

you probably mean /who and it does that, i don't know why.

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MuffinMedic · 2016-09-18 22:43

It could be one of your clients automatically performing WHOISes on
users and them being sent from ZNC to all - You can use
[route_replies](http://wiki.znc.in/Route_replies) in ZNC to ensure
responses only go to the appropriate client.

Also checkout your client settings to see if they have anything about
this. I'm not sure about WHOIS as that's rather strange to be
automated, but some clients automatically perform a /WHO on users
periodically.

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gringlemingle · 2016-09-18 22:43

Maybe, not sure.

Disconnected my Laptop from the znc and it seems to have stopped now.
thanks

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damiankw · 2016-09-19 03:44

Generally clients will do a /WHO on a channel when it enters - this is
to get the user detail (nick, user, host, real name, channel modes),
as on a lot of networks you only get @NICK on join from the /NAMES
list. Occasionally you will find clients that /who the channel after a
period of time as well. Very occasionally you will also get one that
will /who every user that joins the channel after it's joined.

Chances are this will actually be the client connected to ZNC, not ZNC
itself :)

(and /u/gringlemingle .. just in case you miss this)

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c45y · 2016-09-19 08:49

Had the same thing happen, it was another connected client doing
it...hexchat? or weechat maybe?

There is a setting you can toggle so whois goes only to the client
requesting it, but tbh I just killed the client doing it and moved on

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astroholic · 2016-09-19 15:02

http://wiki.znc.in/Route_replies

This happened to me with WeeChat.  Just enable the route_replies
module in each Network and it will stop

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1percentof1 · 2016-09-19 19:26

This comment has been overwritten.

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gringlemingle · 2016-09-19 21:07

im using hexchat so thats probably it

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gringlemingle · 2016-09-19 21:08

it was my client from my laptop, but thanks