When ngircd announces the list of currently known servers
to a new (connecting) server, it sent the introducer of
the servers instead of the top server.
Assuming this network:
irc1.example.com
|--irc2.example.com
| `--irc3.example.com
| `--irc4.example.com
`--irc5.example.com
When irc4 connects to irc3, irc3 tells irc4 that irc5 was
connected to irc2. (irc2 had introduced irc5 to irc3; but thats
not what ngircd should have sent to the new server).
This also placed users on the wrong servers.
This patch
- introduces a new server flag "S" to indicate that the server can handle
the SERVICE command (on server links),
- implements the IRC command "SERVICE" for server-server links,
- uses the "SERVICE" command to announce IRC services when a new
server connects to it,
- and fixes the Send_Message() function to let it send messages to
services using a "target mask".
If the remote server doesn't indicate that it can handle the "SERVICE"
command (it has not set the "S" flag), services are announced as regular
users as before.
This patch enables ngIRCd to handle IRC services as real services, and not
as "fake users":
- Set correct client type CLIENT_SERVICE for services,
- Change log messages to include correct client type,
- PRIVMSG: allow users to send messages to services,
- Send services nick names to other servers (as users).
Please note that this patch doesn't announce services as services in the
network, but as regular users (as before). Only the local server knows
of services as services (see LUSERS command, for example). It is up to
one of the next patches to fix this and to introduce the SERVICE command
in server to server communication.
The propagation of services as regular users between servers doesn't limit
the functionality of the IRC services and will be the fallback for servers
that don't support "real" services propagation in the future.
This patch allows ngIRCd to detect right after receiving the SERVER command
from the peer whether the RFC 1459 compatibility mode must be used or not.
And it fixes the announcement of users during establishing new server links
with such peers.
Alexander Barton