In the code seen at https://github.com/ophal/botphal/tree/devel, using commit for LuaIRC bc79606 (https://github.com/JakobOvrum/LuaIRC/tree/bc79606de0348d1f6b4aef3f1c9ddf2fffbc8dd5), the IRC library seems to not even try to connect (or a <.1s timeout time is used for some reason), but I have a timeout right after running the script.