6.3 Network Congestion
Another problem related to the scalability and reliability issues, as
well as the spanning tree architecture, is that the protocol and
architecture for IRC are extremely vulnerable to network congestions.
This problem is endemic, and should be solved for the next
generation: if congestion and high traffic volume cause a link
between two servers to fail, not only this failure generates more
network traffic, but the reconnection (eventually elsewhere) of two
servers also generates more traffic.
In an attempt to minimize the impact of these problems, it is
strongly RECOMMENDED that servers do not automatically try to
reconnect too fast, in order to avoid aggravating the situation.
Other Links
- IRC Documents
- Glossry of IRC terms and abbreviations
- How to connect to SorceryNet
- List of IRC Client software
- Valinor SorceryNet Server Page
- SorceryNet Main Site
