Re: nick reserved/remembered by server...timeout?

M. Hornung wrote:
> Please bear with me, as I'm a newbie to the SILC toolkit.  I'm working 
> on a bot for SILC, using the template "mybot" that came with the 
> toolkit. As I'm testing, I kill and restart the bot often.  Whenever I 
> restart the bot, the server seems to "remember" a recent connection and 
> the bot nick gets set but you can't msg the bot itself without 
> specifying the hostname too.  (I presume since the server remembers a 
> recent client connection with the same nick)
> 
> Example.
> 
> Start bot named "foo"
> /msg foo something
> foobot does something in return
> 
> <kill foobot>
> 
> Start bot named "foo"
> Nick is "foo" but '/msg foo something' returns:
>     *** foobot: There is no such client
> But if I do:
>     /msg foo@hostname something
> then it works as expected.
> 
> So, as the server operator (with no router connections), is there a way 
> I can do something so the "foo" namespace clears before I restart the bot?
> 
> I apologize for probably using the wrong terminology, but as I said, I'm 
> a newb.  It's ok if you want to respond to me with RTFM, but that 
> wouldn't be as helpful.  Cheers, and thanks!

Does your bot logout properly from the network before it shuts down?

What comes to cleaning the ghosts, you can use KILL command to get rid 
of them..

- Toni

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