What is the IRC PONG command

[steekyjim]

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

[tonyenkiducx]

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

Tony.

[tonyenkiducx]

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

[Hampster]

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:

WinSock1.sendData("PONG :" & ServerName)

the server might not like the lack of the :

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

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.