The irc daemon which is not working with bip is ngircd. The problem is that it does not reply to the PING irc command as expected.
telnetting to irc.freenode.org 6667: PING :thisshouldbeinpongreply :brown.freenode.net PONG brown.freenode.net :thisshouldbeinpongreply telnetting to ngircd: PING :thisshouldbeinpongreply :irc.debian.org PONG irc.debian.org :mynick Although I cannot find in the rfc, it seems to be the defacto standard. I chatted with ngircd developper, and he told me that this is already fixed in the CVS version of ngircd. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]