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

Tim Owen timowen at internode.on.net
Sat Jan 5 14:59:18 PST 2008


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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