Re: Force IRSSI to use a particular nick only and retry infinitely until it gets that

This is typical behaviour of irssi (and many other irc clients): when
the nick you want to join with is already in use, it appends things to
the nick you specified until it finds one that is not in use. There
are settings in irssi to give an alternate nick if this happens.

The reason your desired nick is still in use on the freenode network
is that it hasn't had a chance to time out from being disconnected
yet. The thing to do when that happens is use freenode's nickserv
GHOST command, which you can read up on via /msg nickserv help ghost
when you're logged in.


On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 12:46 AM, Abhijeet Rastogi
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I run IRSSI 24x7. I sometimes receive a message like "Irssi: No PONG reply
> from server irc.freenode.net in 301 seconds, disconnecting" and when it
> tries to reconnect, it says my nick already in use. After that, instead of
> using "abcdefgi", it starts using "abcdefg1". It's annoying as I don't know
> when it got changed.
>
> I already have my nick specified in irssi config but still it starts using a
> new nick. Why?
>
>   fn = {
>     type = "IRC";
>     nick = "abcdefghi";
>     autosendcmd = "/^msg nickserv IDENTIFY accessed";
>   };
>
> Is there anything that I can do about that? Thanks in advance.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Abhijeet Rastogi (shadyabhi)
> http://blog.abhijeetr.com