Forums Bug Reports 'Unable to resolve server' via Favorites|History

Using mIRC 7.49 in win10 x64 (with Creators Update).

I've noticed that, right after I launch mIRC,
whenever trying to connect to either of the following 3 channels (see below) via Favorites|History,
I always get "Unable to resolve server"
and then it retries to reconnect endlessly,
always failing with that same error.

I don't use any proxy.


Steps to reproduce (it occurs every time):
- launch mIRC
- type either of these commands:

Notice that it connects ok, as expected (in all cases via port 6667)
- Now press the 'Disconnect' button.
- Notice now that if you re-connect via Favorites|History it will connect ok, as expected.
- Now close + relaunch mIRC and try to reconnect to each of these channels via Favorites|History :
you'll get "Unable to resolve server" and then it will keep on retrying to reconnect endlessly, always failing with that same error "Unable to resolve server".

Thanks for your bug report. Have you added the servers to the Options dialog/Servers list? If you add them, along with a "Group" name, it should work. mIRC uses the server network name in numeric 005 to remember which network to connect to, so if you have not defined it in your servers list, it will not find the server address.

mIRC used to store the server address if it could not find a matching network in your servers list, however this was commented out of the code at some point. Unfortunately, the reason was not documented - my guess is that someone reported an issue/side-effect with doing that.

Thanks for replying.
Unfortunately, adding them (with a group) doesn't help.

This is how I added one of the servers:

The group name would need to match to the network name for each server entry.

Yes, in the above case, after renaming the group from Pre to Corrupt-Net, it now works.
Thank you.