If the IRC network is unreachable/slow, bukkit hangs until the connection times out

I'll make a system that will ping the server and if the server takes to long to respond or the wait time is too long it will disconnect and end the plugin.

Wouldn't a separate thread for the IRC stuff also alleviate this? I can see an issue with disabling if the server itself goes down and is part of an RR, it will never have the chance to cycle through the server list.

It now connects on a seprate thread. V:1.21