I doubt it has anything to do with the number of bots on the botnet (10 seems like a very reasonable number).
Can you paste your botnetop settings ?
And log on to one of your bots then type
.channel #yourchannelname you should be able to see a handle for each of the bots that are on the botnet.
It should look like this:
Code: Select all
NICKNAME HANDLE JOIN IDLE USER@HOST
@TheBotYouAreOn * 3Nov <- it's me!
TheOtherBot BotHandle 12Nov ident@ip
etc...
Otherwise something is wrong and they are not being recognized by each other (probably because of a bad or missing host). You will need to add the correct hosts using .+host