[PENNMUSH] Idle timeouts

[Jason Low]

Hi all,

Regarding the recent commentary about Linksys routers dropping connections -
I have this problem but can't do anything with the router (or, it's been
tried and been less than successful). I tell all my players to use IDLE, but
the problem is cropping up with the MudNet player-bot. I've gotten no
response from the mudnet mailing lists I've been able to find - anyone got
any ideas on what I could do to keep it alive? I've found that querying the
mush from another mudnet-equipped mush will (eventually) cause MudNet to
reconnect, but only until the next time my mush saves game (presumably the
next time the program tries to send text to MudNet), when it drops off.

I've almost gotten to the point of putting a repeating command bot of some
sort on the 'other' mush to make its MudNet query mine every few minutes,
but I'm not sure that's the ideal situation either.

Thanks in advance.