2.6 Network Related Commands

2.6 Network Related Commands
If you encounter any problem, contact your local IRC-Administrator or an IRC-Operator. An IRC-Admin is a person who has access to all files concerning 'ircd' (the server program). An IRC-Operator or "IRC-op" is a person who has privileges given to him by an IRC-Admin and tries to maintain a fast reliable IRC network. Information on how you can find out who s/he is, can be found below.

Each time you are prompted for a server name, remember you can supply the nickname of someone being connected on that server instead. This may be useful at times.

Table 11: Network related commands
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Keyword Action
~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~
ADMIN displays information about a server
LINKS shows the servers on the IRC network
SERVER switches your primary server
MOTD displays the server message-of-the-day
USERS prints users logged on the server machine
DATE shows server current date and time
TIME shows server current date and time
LUSERS gives a brief listing of users, servers and operators
TRACE shows the server connections of the given server
STATS shows some irc server usage statistics
INFO shows useless information about IRC
VERSION shows client and server version number

/ADMIN []

Displays the administrative details about the given server. If no server is supplied, the server you are connected to is used.

/ADMIN
### Administrative info about poly.polytechnique.fr
### Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, FRANCE
### IRC-Administrator Nicolas Pioch (Nap@IRC)
###

/LINKS [[] ]

Shows a list of servers currently connected to the IRC network. If is given, /LINKS asks the given for a list of servers matching the given expression, (this list can get very long!).

/LINKS *po*
*** nova.unix.portal.com 7 Cupertino California, USA
*** poe.acc.Virginia.EDU 6 University of Virginia 2.7.1f
*** polaris.utu.fi 9 University of Turku, Finland
*** polaris.ctr.columbia.edu 6 Columbia University, New York City
*** csd.postech.ac.kr 4 POSTECH Computer Science Dept.
*** cdc853.cdc.polimi.it 2 Polytechnic of Milan, Italy
*** poly.polytechnique.fr 0 Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, FRANCE

/SERVER [| []]

Switches your primary server to the supplied at the specified . If no port number is given, the default port number is used (normally 6667).

/SERVER poly.polytechnique.fr 6667
*** Connecting to port 6667 of server poly.polytechnique.fr
*** Welcome to the Internet Relay Network, Nap
*** Your host is poly.polytechnique.fr, running version 2.7.2g.ID
*** This server was created Sat Jan 16 1993 at 12:16:10 MET

Occasionally, you can switch servers faster than the IRC network can send out the information that you have left your previous server. So don't be surprised if you are told your nickname is already in use... Just wait a moment and set it with /NICK again.

/MOTD []

Gives the Message-Of-The-Day for the named server. If no server is given, your server is used.

/MOTD
MOTD - poly.polytechnique.fr message of the day -
MOTD - _____________________________________
MOTD - /\ \
MOTD - \_| Bienvenue sur le serveur |
MOTD - | Internet Relay Chat |
MOTD - | de l'Ecole Polytechnique, FRANCE |
MOTD - | _________________________________|__
MOTD - \_/___________________________________/
MOTD -
MOTD - | | | En cas de probleme,
MOTD - )_) )_) )_) tapez / admin
MOTD - )___))___))___)\
MOTD - )____)____)_____)\\ Nicolas PIOCH
MOTD - _____|____|____|____\\\__ Nap sur IRC
MOTD - --\ Welcome to IRC ! /---------
MOTD - ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^
* End of /MOTD command

/USERS []

Shows the users logged into the machine where the server is running, (it's up to the server administrator to implement this feature or not. It may not work on some machines).

/USERS
*** UserID Terminal Host
*** pioch ttyp9 rotule.polytechn
*** pioch ttypc rotule.polytechn
*** pioch ttyq0 rotule.polytechn
*** pioch ttyq1 rotule.polytechn

/DATE []
/TIME []

Shows the current time of day and date. If a server is specified, the time of day and date are reported from that server. DATE and TIME are identical.

/DATE
*** poly.polytechnique.fr Saturday June 20 1992 -- 02: 35 +01:00

/LUSERS

Gives a brief listing of the number of servers, operators and users matching the given , as seen from the specified .

/LUSERS
*** There are 1008 users and 291 invisible on 135 servers
*** 72 users have connection to the twilight zone
*** There are 458 channels
*** I have 16 clients and 4 servers
*** 22 maximum connections, 19 clients

/TRACE []

Shows the server connections of the given .

/TRACE
*** Serv Class[9] ==> 134S 1331C eff.org[192.88.144.3]
*** Serv Class[8] ==> 1S 6C Julia.Enst.FR
*** Serv Class[8] ==> 1S 6C Eurecom8.Cica.FR[192.70.34.208]
*** Serv Class[1] ==> 2S 0C athina.cc.uch.gr[147.52.80.102]
*** Serv Class[8] ==> 1S 5C dafne.mines.u-nancy.fr[192.70.66.2]
*** Serv Class[8] ==> 1S 0C cnam.cnam.fr
*** Class 0 Entries linked: 16
*** Class 9 Entries linked: 1
*** Class 8 Entries linked: 4
*** Class 1 Entries linked: 1

/STATS c|i|k|l|m|u|y []

Shows some irc server usage statistics.

/STATS u
*** Server Up 12 days, 12:28:44

/INFO []

Shows information about the IRC creators, debuggers, slaves and a lot of other people who no longer have much to do with IRC.

/VERSION

Shows the ircII version number and the version number of the server.

/VERSION
*** Client: ircII 2.2
*** Server poly.polytechnique.fr: ircd 2.7.2g.Nap+6(privacy).