[Chat IRC] Not Receiving 001

[Nifty255]

Starting earnly morning (PST) May 1, new bot connections to Twitch IRC are not receiving the 001 response, on which I wait before further initializing. I have the following debug logs from my service and the golang package which it uses: https://github.com/thoj/go-ircevent

Expected:

2020-05-02 00:04:10 Starting the IRC connection...
2020/05/02 00:04:10 Connected to irc.chat.twitch.tv:443 (34.217.198.238:443)
2020/05/02 00:04:10 --> PASS oauth:<REDACTED>
2020/05/02 00:04:10 --> NICK <REDACTED>
2020/05/02 00:04:10 --> USER <REDACTED> 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 :<REDACTED>
2020-05-02 00:04:10 Startup complete. Entering main process loop...
2020/05/02 00:04:10 <-- :tmi.twitch.tv 001 <REDACTED> :Welcome, GLHF!
2020-05-02 00:04:10 Twitch connected. Joining <REDACTED>...
2020/05/02 00:04:10 --> JOIN #<REDACTED>
2020-05-02 00:04:10 Joined. Sending command and waiting...
2020/05/02 00:04:10 <-- :tmi.twitch.tv 002 <REDACTED> :Your host is tmi.twitch.tv
2020/05/02 00:04:10 <-- :tmi.twitch.tv 003 <REDACTED> :This server is rather new
2020/05/02 00:04:10 <-- :tmi.twitch.tv 004 <REDACTED> :-
2020/05/02 00:04:10 <-- :tmi.twitch.tv 375 <REDACTED> :-
2020/05/02 00:04:10 <-- :tmi.twitch.tv 372 <REDACTED> :You are in a maze of twisty passages, all alike.
2020/05/02 00:04:10 <-- :tmi.twitch.tv 376 <REDACTED> :>
2020/05/02 00:04:10 <-- :<REDACTED>!<REDACTED>@<REDACTED>.tmi.twitch.tv JOIN #<REDACTED>
...
2020/05/02 00:04:10 --> PRIVMSG #<REDACTED> :...

Getting:

2020-05-01 23:51:12 Starting the IRC connection...
2020/05/01 23:51:12 Connected to irc.chat.twitch.tv:443 (34.217.198.238:443)
2020/05/01 23:51:12 --> PASS oauth:<REDACTED>
2020/05/01 23:51:12 --> NICK <REDACTED>
2020/05/01 23:51:12 --> USER <REDACTED> 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 :<REDACTED>
2020-05-01 23:51:12 Startup complete. Entering main process loop...
2020-05-01 23:51:27 No welcome (001) received after connection attempt. Quitting early.

As you can see, in the failing logs, I am waiting up to 15 seconds to receive the 001 response and I’m not receiving it, nor am I having any connection error.

[BarryCarlyon]

Problem still occuring?

Some things were a little hairy during the Helix oAuth Test window

[Nifty255]

Yes, though less prominently. It seems that between 25% and 50% of my connections are still not receiving 001 after sending credentials. Yesterday, it was closer to 80%.

[BarryCarlyon]

Everything looks OK here with my bots, so it would suggest something environmental yourside with your route to twitch.

[Nifty255]

Could be, could not be. I’m still gathering data on the fail rate. I’ll have a more complete picture by the end of the weekend.

[Jora]

I’m occasionally experiencing this as well, and also started noticing the problem starting May 1st. After finding this thread, I checked my client’s debug logs and can confirm that when I’m having a problem starting a chat bot, it looks the same as what’s happened in Nifty255’s logs: sometimes I just don’t get the 001 reply, or it arrives very late, which causes the bot to not start correctly. For example, starting up a bot just now, it took 1 minute and 23 seconds to receive the 001 reply.

[thekillernacho]

I’m experiencing this issue as well, in intermittent spurts. Something on Twitch’s side seems to have gone wonky since their test on May 1st at 2pm ET.

[Nifty255]

The issue seems to have resolved at approximately 11:20 AM on Monday the 4th. I am no longer not receiving the welcome (001) response.