[IRCServices] Query on ChanServ/Nickserv behavior

Trevor Talbot quension at softhome.net
Fri Nov 2 07:34:00 PST 2001


Jonathan Morton wrote:

> >  >Related to this, I'd rather like an option to be opped on my channels
> >>as soon as I *have* identified, rather than having to issue OP
> >>commands just because the JOIN command beat my IDENTIFY command
> >>through the post.
> >
> >      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.

Reordered?  Sounds like a client issue.

If the client sends the identify command before the join command, services
will work as expected.  Since services is delayed, there's no reason it
would see the join _before_ the identify.

-- Quension