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ekmartin / slack-irc

Connects Slack and IRC channels by sending messages back and forth.
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IRC Username randomly changed #118

Closed Someguy123 closed 8 years ago

Someguy123 commented 8 years ago

I have an IRC bridge from my slack channel to Freenode. After running for approximately 9 days, I found my bot with the name: 7YUAAYVY7. It was still working, however I don't understand where it got this name from.

I checked the logs, unfortunately I don't have debug turned on, so there was nothing to tell me what happened.

I restarted the bot and the username is now correct.

Very strange bug, but needs to be fixed.

ekmartin commented 8 years ago

Sounds extremely strange, as there's no code in slack-irc that ever tries to do something like changing a nick. You're sure it wasn't because you used a NickServ registered nickname without authenticating? That would probably result in Freenode changing your nickname.

Someguy123 commented 8 years ago

@ekmartin: AFAIK Freenode doesn't do random nick's like that, AND it was using auth-on-connect via server password. I could tell by the bots hostname that it was fully authenticated, so it can't have been NickServ changing it...

If Freenode changes your nick due to something like that, it would have become "Guest12345" etc.

ekmartin commented 8 years ago

Hm, weird. node-irc (the IRC library slack-irc uses) doesn't even have API support for changing nicks at runtime, you have to do it by manually sending a raw NICK command to the IRC server - which isn't done anywhere in the slack-irc or node-irc code base.

I'm going to close this, but would be nice if you could run your bot with NODE_ENV=development and report back if it happens again.