Forums Bug Reports $network issue with being disconnected.

More strangeness - i connected to irc.c0la.se, and then disconnected, and it still had the full network name. But then I remembered that I had added the network to my servers.ini, and the servers.ini group description of the current server seems to govern the disconnected $network value. So i deleted the the-c0la-network entry from servers.ini, and suddenly i get:

*** disconnected 23-net

.. which was the previous network I had been at. I deleted the servers.ini entry for 23-net, and then $network shows the network description name of the network that shows in the connect window after 23-net got deleted.

maroon thats rather strange.. i have a blank servers.ini as the thing annoys me and thats how i came about my findings. having it return $network by what is in servers.ini makes me wonder if there are several places that the value comes from and could be a number of factors leading to the output.

Cheers, Col.

Yes that's the reason for the behaviour. mIRC tries to find the network name in various ways: numeric 001, 005, and the group name if the server is in your servers list.

In the case of numeric 001, networks use different formats so it's not clearly defined, however mIRC does expect the network name to be one word.

If a network lists a different network name in 001 and 005 (and perhaps in the group name for the server) then you'll see different results.

Ideally, networks should use the same network name in 001 as in 005.