Round Robin

TheCrowX · none Joined: 19 Oct 2005 Posts: 11

Hi everyone i was wondering if there is a way to round robin a server using port 7001 ?
Thanx in advance

ed · Posted: Feb 17, 2006 12:43am Post subject:

As long as every server is using the same port, and the user knows to connect to that port, it will work.

But you can't point one server to 6667, and another to 6668.

Aven · Idler Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 393

Yeah, which means people will have to

/server irc.domain.com 7001

if you just type /server irc.domain.com, the default port is 6667 for most clients.

I don't think you can make an A record point to a specific port.

SpaceCat · Newbie Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 84 Location: IRC

you can't make an A record including a port period

XVar · Newbie Joined: 21 Sep 2005 Posts: 97

The only possible way to do this is to make use of the "jump server" feature of certain IRCds. This enables you to redirect clients using a compatible client (namely mIRC) to another server/port. Refer to your IRCd's documentation for how to do this. Basically you'd have to run an IRCd as a "redirection" server for the server in question, which could be ran on a shell with very little available bandwidth as it'd only be used to redirect clients.

In UnrealIRCd it's part of the allow block, it'd look something like this:

allow {
ip *@*;
class users;
maxperip 3;
redirect-server 1.2.3.4;
redirect-port 7001;
options {
};
};

Geko · none Joined: 23 Feb 2006 Posts: 10

it wont matter what domain it is, if you have a server on port 6667 and another one on port 7000 then there are two diffrent ports on two diffrent servers

NSS-General · none Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 17

Somethin like that, yea. heh