IRC

[Willoughbyva]

I was using IRC and I did a whois on myself and it knocked a bunch of people off the channel. I was wondering why that would happen?

It made me feel uncomfortable, I didn't mean to cause any problems. Does stuff like that happen often?

Will

 

[Buddha Bart]

pure coincidence

 

[dexter333]

Oh, so that was you that kicked all the users off my server..... j/k

Unless there is a bug in the ircd code, /whois'ing yourself won't crash the server or make people leave the channel. It was most likely what is called a netsplit. A netsplit is where two servers disconnect from each other either intentionally (rerouting) or unintentionally (ping timeout, etc..). There was no way you could have caused that.

 

[Willoughbyva]

Thanks for reassuring me that it wasn't my doing. I didn't think it was likely that a whois lookup would cause that, but I wanted to get more opinions on it.

Thanks again.

Will