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> I use a public command script so people can check info about a online game they play. > if a couple of people use it at the same time, the bot will be banned for flooding the channel. Is this info relevant for all people on the channel or only for the person hitting the trigger? In the latter case...

EEggy, My experience is that these are typically clones, using hosts which allow to bounce off them due to some open ports. I have found by experience that the problem can be alleviated (not solved, though) doing the following: 1. add their ip to the botnetl ban list: ie, ban the mask *!*@ip.of.the....

thanks ppslim. Nono, I am aware of the different path length issues and latency, but thanks for reminding me :) Reason I ask, in the first place, is that I "live" on the irc italian network: there are two main ircserver groups serving IT, and they are at the largest possible distance on th...

There is another possibility to try and slow down the mass deop against a botnet, perhaps. Suppose one has bots A and B, on two different servers. On server A there is also a bad chap, call C. C deops A and B: but the B deop commands takes a little time to travel to server B (depending on lag): A se...

Another alternative to the @$nick binding suggested by strikelight could be to bind the pub bind to an evnt init-server: something like: bind evnt - init-server init_the_proc proc init_the_proc {type} { global botnick bind pub - @$botnick .... } The slight advantage of this is that the bind is in op...

Rusher, I posted the little hack in this thread, on Sunday :) Here it is again, for your convenience: This is the hack: edit mod/server.mod/server.c locate: /* Send upto 4 msgs to server if the *critical queue* has anything in it */ Two lines down, there is the line: while (modeq.head && (bu...

Rusher, The irc protocol is, believe it or not, a small traffic protocol: I have a couple of very busy channel, and the *daily* traffic is order of only a few MB - tiny on modern standards. The irc servers (and protocol) came around when band was much less than these days, and the software does chec...

[quote="Rusher"]How can i make this faster because need is very slow : My guess is that the script is overall "slow", and in particular the "unban" bit.It executes a few commands quickly, and then it bogs down. If you really need to push that many instructions through t...

Hi all, I quickly wrote a tcl which seems to do what required: it keeps track of people leaving a chan, and check whoever joins the (same) chan, matching hosts to spot nick changes. The "out time" is settable, as well as the chans the tcl is meant to be active on: of course, the check is d...

Thanks, slennox.

dun

Dear All, I have been happily using netbots for a few years now :), but I run into a trouble yesterday. First of all, let me give the scenario: I am from Italy, and my bots live there, and control channels on IRCnet. My channels average from 90 to 200 people. In Italy, there are only a few ADSL prov...

Although the thread has taken a different direction, there is decent scramble script called
wordgame, by murf. It can be found among the tcl scripts on www.egghelp.org. It comes with 500 preset words, but more are easily added.

dun_dacil

Dear ppslim, Well spotted! I needed some reassurance that the behaviour was not correct. I did as suggested, taking down one of the bots which was giving trouble, and started it adding one tcl at the time: it turned out that the culprit is indeed a tcl: lol.tcl Having found the culprit, it was strai...

Dear ppslim, Many thanks for your prompt reply. Well, I do have the bots arranged to reflect the topology of the servers locations. But I observe slowing down even between two bots located on the same LAN, with 100mb connection :(: the hub may be totally unresponsive to anything typed on the partyli...

Hi All, As my botnet increased in size, I experienced slowing down of the bots, particularly the main and secondary hubs. I tracked down the problem to, apparently, a large traffic of (explicit) "chattr handle flags" as observed on the partyline. Let me explain better: the bots tipically s...