Can't connect to Undernet - what am I missing?

[nondem]

Hi, I've done my best to troubleshoot this without posting. I'm not using the right search terms because nothing relevant is coming up. I'm sure I've missed something somewhere so please excuse me if this is something simple/stupid.

I've got eggdrop 1.8 running, I can telnet to it and it basically has no errors but I can't get it to connect to any undernet servers.

I believe I have turned on all the relevant flags in the .conf file for logging but nothing is explaining to me what is wrong

I've tried this on my home linux (NATed) pc and also on a "real" Internet IP non-NATed Linux server with the same results.

It basically just keeps trying to connect but never does. I realize undernet is pretty bad - but I've got every undernet server I could find listed in my servers key in the .conf file but none of them get connected.
Here is the output from one server that does give a "Connect" message - but doesn't close the deal. I changed the actual nick of the bot here to MYBOT to protect the innocent

[10:27:42] Trying server [Dallas.TX.US.Undernet.Org]:6667
[10:27:42] [!m] NICK MYBOT
[10:27:42] [m->] NICK MYBOT
[10:27:42] [!m] USER MYBOT . . :/msg MYBOT hello
[10:27:42] [m->] USER MYBOT . . :/msg MYBOT hello
[10:27:42] net: connect! sock 8
[10:27:42] Connected to Dallas.TX.US.Undernet.Org
[10:27:42] [@]
[10:27:42] net: eof!(read) socket 8
[10:27:42] Disconnected from Dallas.TX.US.Undernet.Org

[nondem]

On the advice of a nice fellow who found me on IRC...I tried another network besides undernet. Same symptoms.


I'm rolling back to 1.6...will see how that works and post back. 1.6 worked fine for me a few months back on the same network.

[SpiKe^^]

My opinion is that undernet has finally gotten almost impossible to connect to.

Four of my 6 bots have been unable to connect at all for near a week.

This evening my home micr client wasn't able to connect at all for near 2 1/2 hours.

It's very sad to see it go but....

[nondem]

It seems as stable as usual

FTR: Supybot works fine on undernet at the moment....so it's something w/eggdrop.