[JDEV] Heartbeat patch for dialup and laptop users and faulty presence info

[David Waite]

Right; with an application level ping/pong you disconnect under load 
even if the other side is actively accepting data.

-David Waite

Bernd Eckenfels wrote:

>On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 06:16:52PM +1200, isomer at coders.net wrote:
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>>Attacking users on IRC is using CTCP PING which is different.  CTCP's
>>are a client to client protocol and as such aren't really part of the
>>IRC core protocol and IRC servers (usually[1]) don't realise they even exist.
>>The IRC Server uses a different protocol for it's keep alive and for
>>some servers, no spoof pings.
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>It was attacked anyway, because flooding a user especially inband and out of
>band will delay the pong so long, that the server resetes the connection.
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>Greetings
>Bernd
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