[IRCServices] Kick war with ChanServ, for the 135175631861th time..

Robin Burchell robin at en2no.com
Sat Jan 5 15:24:45 PST 2008


Yes, I am positive. We aren't a small network (~10-15 staff, some 5-8
of which are usually online at a time).

The ban would also stick anyway as ChanServ is designed to take this
into account by staying around for a while with empty channels.

On Jan 5, 2008 10:59 PM, Tim Owen <timowen at internode.on.net> wrote:
> Hi Robin,
>
> Are there other users in #helpers at the time? (are you sure?)
>
> The ban will not 'stick' if there is no-one in the channel. This could
> produce something like what you describe below?
>
> Regards,
>
> Tim Owen
> Profound / EYErc.net
>
>
> Robin Burchell wrote:
> > Ok, so I just got in another kick war with ChanServ (again).
> >
> > This bug has been reported before with no conclusion, but it obviously
> > *does* exist.
> >
> > [22:43:57] -ChanServ- Information for channel #helpers:
> > [22:43:57] -ChanServ-         Founder: ol
> > [22:43:57] -ChanServ-     Description: helpers meeting channel
> > [22:43:57] -ChanServ-      Registered: Jan 13 14:11:53 2004 GMT
> > [22:43:57] -ChanServ-       Last used: Jan 05 22:43:37 2008 GMT
> > [22:43:57] -ChanServ-         Options: Topic Retention, Secure Ops,
> > Restricted Access, Secure, Enforce
> > [22:43:57] -ChanServ-       Mode lock: +nstKCS-ipkV
> >
> > Fair enough.
> >
> > I joined whilest not being identified, and was booted out. Also okay.
> >
> > What wasn't ok was services not setting a ban on my host for some
> > reason (perhaps assuming it'd be smart and get in a kick war with me
> > instead? I don't know.)
> >
> > Anyway, so thanks to autorejoin and autoconnect, I then spammed with
> > kicks and reconnects for the next 3 minutes until I managed to
> > reconnect a second client and ban myself manually.
> >
> > Can this be looked into again? Because it really seems like something
> > isn't right. I can't reproduce it, but I have seen it happen various
> > times, and it's happened to me a few times.
> >
> > Thanks Andrew,
> > Robin
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