Where it should most likely respond with ERR_NOSUCHNICK.
However, USERIP a_nick_not_in_use does not respond at all.
This behavior seems inconsistent between these two commands and also inconsistent with pretty much every other command that looks up data by nick, which normally use the proper ERR_NOSUCHNICK response.
When running
USERHOST a_nick_not_in_use
, the server responds like so:Where it should most likely respond with
ERR_NOSUCHNICK
.However,
USERIP a_nick_not_in_use
does not respond at all.This behavior seems inconsistent between these two commands and also inconsistent with pretty much every other command that looks up data by nick, which normally use the proper
ERR_NOSUCHNICK
response.