Some IRC networks perform round-robin by supplying a list of IP addresses
in their DNS records. However, Qt a) always uses the first address of that
list, and b) caches DNS records for a minute. This results that users who
connect at a roughly similar time (like at core startup) will all pick the
same IP for a given round-robin network address.
We now force Qt (simply by calling QHostInfo::fromName()) to perform a fresh
lookup every time it connects to an IRC network, which solves this problem.
However, this will not help you if your OS uses a system DNS cache that does
not reshuffle the list of IPs for repeated lookups.
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+#include <QHostInfo>
+
#include "corenetwork.h"
#include "core.h"
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();