Problems linking botnet

[Helo]

i have 2 bots; 1 hubbot and 1 linkbot
they are added with
port 359997 for hubbot
and 359996 for linkbot

linkbot has flags bfo and gs
hubbot has flags bfo and ghp

but when i do the ".link hubbot"
the linkbot say:

Linking to hubbot at thehost.com:35997 ...
[linkbot] Couldn't link to hubbot.
Failed link to hubbot.


and the hubbot say:
Lost connection while identing 212.25.100.54/2381]
Telnet connection: 212.25.100.54/2628

any ideas why they dont link?

they are both running Eggdrop 1.6.5

[Petersen]

Any of 3 reasons. Firstly there could just be very bad routing between the 2 bots, secondly the rdns servers for one of them seem to be broke or non-existant which causes timeouts, and thirdly the identd server on the same one seems to be lagged, filtered or just broke. Either fix these issues, or go through your conf and change connect-timeout to something longer (though this still may not solve your problem if the routing is the issue)

[GTM]

The problem here is the ports.
You cant use 6number ports since there are no more then 65500 something.

[RedAlert]

(...) You cant use 6number ports (...)

Just fyi: in most programs, port numbers will be read into a "short" variable without checking for overflow, causing the resulting port to be (port MOD 65536). In this case, 359996 and 359997 are equal to respectively 32316 and 32317, which are good port numbers (indeed, the downside of using portnumbers >65535 is that you accidentally could get a port number below 1024).

Anyway, the high port numbers seem to be a typo of Helo, see that the port that the linkbot connects to is 35997 and not 359997. As a connection attempt is recorded by the hubbot, port numbers won't be the problem here (iow, Petersen is right).