Bot tries to join channel before ident finishes

[remihacker5]

Today I was getting this error:
:.freenode.net NOTICE * :** Looking up your ident...
:.freenode.net NOTICE * :** Looking up your hostname...
:capelle.freenode.net 451 Iamapythonbot JOIN :You have not registered.
:.freenode.net NOTICE Iamapythonbot :** Could not resolve your hostname: Nameserver failure; using your IP address (199.167.89.140) instead.
Then the bot would just sit and do nothing.
After some research (and numerous stack overflow articles), I concluded that something goes wrong with the name server and it extends the time that it takes before you can log in to a channel. The problem is that the bot does not run any checks before it tries to join a channel, and hence the inability to join a channel. I have made a crude workaround that looks like this:

def main():
  while 1:
    ircmsg = ircsock.recv(2048).decode("UTF-8")
    ircmsg = ircmsg.strip('\n\r')
    print(ircmsg)
    if ircmsg.find("Welcome to the freenode IRC Network") != -1: # I chose "welcome to freenode" because that is the first thing the server sends after the login process is finished.  
        joinchan(channel)
    if ircmsg.find("PRIVMSG") != -1:
#The rest of the code here.

I am certain that there is a better way to implement this, but I lack both the willpower and programming skills to do such a thing.
I hope I am writing this issue the correct way, I'm like 15 and have never written a issue report before.

Good day to you.