Problems connecting (hostname lookup failure)

Sinistral · Post by **Sinistral** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:45 pm

I get the following error when the bot attempts to connect to the server.

[17:29] === XXXXXX: 1 channels, 0 users.
[17:29] main: entering loop
[17:29] Trying server east.gamesnet.net:6667
[17:29] DNS resolved east.gamesnet.net to 216.179.62.106
[17:29] net: connect! sock 5
[17:29] Connected to east.gamesnet.net
[17:29] -NOTICE- *** Looking up your hostname
[17:29] -NOTICE- *** Checking Ident
[17:29] -NOTICE- *** Couldn't look up your hostname
[17:29] -ERROR from server- Closing Link: XXXXXX by Slim.NY.US.GamesNET.net (USER: Bad username)
[17:29] Disconnecting from server.

Can anyone help me about this?

szuka · Post by **szuka** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 7:34 pm

Since it says bad username try and change the nickname?

gumbydammit · Post by **gumbydammit** » Mon Jan 05, 2004 10:40 pm

username is not nickname... check set username in conf.. make sure it has only lower case letters and no numbers or weird crap

Kripton · Post by **Kripton** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 7:22 am

what server (op-system) is this eggdrop running on?

GamesNet can't get an identd from you! Make sure you have identd or oidentd or something running on your Linux-Box and your FireWall doesn't close port 113

On Windows, plz download any identd-Server

When connecting through router, make shure, port 113 is linked to your machine!

szuka · Post by **szuka** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 1:09 pm

heh i ment username of course

Kripton · Post by **Kripton** » Tue Jan 06, 2004 6:16 pm

[17:29] -NOTICE- *** Checking Ident
[17:29] -NOTICE- *** Couldn't look up your hostname

seem like a server-sided idnted problem, not?