[IRCServices] Query on ChanServ/Nickserv behavior

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Fri Nov 2 07:16:05 PST 2001


>>      This has been requested by a number of people and is being considered.
>>(On the other hand, as long as you send /ns identify first this won't be a
>>problem...)
>
>Ah, problem is the IRCd responds quicker than Services, so a list of 
>commands in a connection script can - and usually do - get 
>re-ordered.  This is true even on a single-server network, and is 
>presumably much worse on a lagged multi-server network.

     But remember that the join itself has to propogate to Services, and
since the ircd doesn't see the join until after the PRIVMSG to identify,
Services should also get them in the same order.  (If not, it's an ircd
bug.)

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/