What is the IRC PONG command

Hi, I've made an irc program but I keep getting ping timeouts. I know that when the server sends ping message you should send a pong message to show that you are sill there. What is the exeact commad for thr pong message. I have it as winsock1.senddata("PONG" & ServerName) but I dont think its right. Can someone give me an example of the exact information need to be sent for the PONG command to work? Thanks

http://bahamut.dal.net/documentation/
Thats the dalnet ircD's documentation, should tell you everything you need to know..

Tony.

Ooops, it is worth mentioning, not all networks use the same ircD

Well... There's two types of "pongs" (excluding ctcp, but that's not pong, that's ping).
pong is the reply of a ping request

1)
Client's connecting.

Server sends a ping with a random string:

PING :6F3A0B0B

and Client replies:

PONG :6F3A0B0B

2)
Client's been connected for a while
Server wants to see if it's still alive

Server Sends:

PING :irc.FatPeople.net

When Client gets this "PING" then it'll send a PONG:

PONG :irc.FatPeople.net

If the server doesn't get a PONG in a certain amount of time then it'll "Ping timeout" the client.

As for your question steekyjim:

Try:

VB Code:

WinSock1.sendData("PONG :" & ServerName)

the server might not like the lack of the :

Quote:

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Ooops, it is worth mentioning, not all networks use the same ircD

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Correct, but there are some "constant" commands (such as PING/PONG) that are normally the same for any IRCd, if this was not so then the user'd have to get a new irc client for that server,
most people would not bother and no one would "join" the server.