Fix round-robin for networks that support it

[quassel.git] / src / core / corenetwork.cpp

diff --git a/src/core/corenetwork.cpp b/src/core/corenetwork.cpp
index 954565c..18f2784 100644 (file)
--- a/src/core/corenetwork.cpp
+++ b/src/core/corenetwork.cpp
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@
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  ***************************************************************************/
 
+#include <QHostInfo>
+
 #include "corenetwork.h"
 
 #include "core.h"
@@ -184,6 +186,10 @@ void CoreNetwork::connectToIrc(bool reconnecting)
 
     enablePingTimeout();
 
+    // Qt caches DNS entries for a minute, resulting in round-robin (e.g. for chat.freenode.net) not working if several users
+    // connect at a similar time. QHostInfo::fromName(), however, always performs a fresh lookup, overwriting the cache entry.
+    QHostInfo::fromName(server.host);
+
 #ifdef HAVE_SSL
     if (server.useSsl) {
         CoreIdentity *identity = identityPtr();