lol good catch Jethro, Yes I did make a typo. I haven't used regex or istok very much so I don't often think of them. very good point tho, I like the suggestion.

I have a working global system for this. it's kinda ugly atm
I changed

on *:snotice:*connecting*:{ if ($dialog(lus)) { did -r lus 2,4,11 | did -b lus 6-9,15,16 | trace } } 

to

on *:snotice:*connecting*:{ if ($dialog(lus)) { did -r lus 2,4,11 | did -b lus 6-9,15,16 | trace socrates.misfits-irc.net | trace hercules.misfits-irc.net } }

I didn't honestly think this would work but it works very well.
Note that my network is very small with only two leafs, I would imagine many more would cause problems. Also note that not just that line needed to be changed, every line that executed the trace command had to changed