Difference between revisions of "Rehash"

From Mibbit Wiki
Jump to: navigation, search
(Created page with "==What does rehashing mean?== Once in a while, I see this: *** Notice -- OperNick is rehashing server config file *** Notice -- OperNick is remotely rehashing server config f...")
(No difference)

Revision as of 02:16, 24 May 2011

What does rehashing mean?

Once in a while, I see this:

*** Notice -- OperNick is rehashing server config file
*** Notice -- OperNick is remotely rehashing server config file

And other variations on the theme.

This is an indication that the Mibbit staff is doing some maintenance to the irc.mibbit.net network.

Other networks and clients may have slightly different messages.

Is it important?

To the staff, yes. To general users, probably not.

A change to settings such as staff IP ranges, different server adds and moves, routing changes, etc etc. It's usually pretty boring stuff to general users.

Will you tell me why a rehash just occurred?

Well, sure. It's really not a big deal, but is kind of perplexing about why you would care, and if the sanitized answer you will get adds any additional knowledge.

We are not about to tell you "oh, sure, I just added 192.168.3.17 to Axod's allowed IPs for his O-Line..."

Can I block it?

Sure, turn off mode w (wallops)

Mode +w

User mode +w means that you can see network status messages called wallops. These are messages that the system and/or staff (Opers) considers important, such as a pending service downtime.

  • To disable this notification, issue the command /mode YourNick -w.

References

UnrealIRCD User and Channel modes [1]

UnrealIRCD User and Oper commands [2]