eggdrop from behind NAT

dehd · Post by **dehd** » Fri Jan 18, 2002 4:14 pm

had my buddy make me a shell account on his *nix box.
right now i'm having to ssh into the shell, and then ssh from there to his 2nd box.
the eggdrop is up and running off the 2nd computer. it's on efnet, but it's not accepting dcc chat. he told me to ask around for help on eggdrop's and NAT setups. i've heard that this combination isnt possible. any help much appreciated.

stdragon · Post by **stdragon** » Sat Jan 19, 2002 12:20 am

As long as you are not behind a firewall, dcc chats to the bot should be unaffected. Check to make sure you have your hosts set up correctly. Try /msg commands and see if the bot responds to them.

If you are behind a firewall, AND the bot is behind a firewall, you're pretty much out of luck. Get your friend to set up the ip_masq_irc module if he's running linux and then do /ctcp bot CHAT.

dehd · Post by **dehd** » Sat Jan 19, 2002 1:18 am

bot is up
bot does accept msg's thru irc
bot does not accept dcc's

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i AM firewalled, norton firewall. but it is configured correctly. i do have another bot online, different shell tho. and everything is fine

the shell this bot is on.......
to my knowledge he has open bsd as his firewall, and the shell is off probably a slackware or redhat box. i am not positive which. i know he is very fond of slackware.

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i'm thinking ima hafta get this module.
where can i get it?
what computer it go on?
what do i all need to get this egg accepting my chats.

thanks for the help.

Petersen · Post by **Petersen** » Sat Jan 19, 2002 1:25 am

some things to check.

when you do a /dcc chat bot, the bot then attempts to connect to you. this will fail for 2 reasons - either the box the bot is running has a firewall restricting output to certain ports only (eg, my box at work only allows 21, 23, 80 and 443), or your own box is dropping the connection attempt from this bot to yourself.

if you use /ctcp bot chat, then you're the active party. this means you try to connect to the bots telnet port (which generally won't work on a bot behind NAT unless you forward the port).

i'm guessing one of your firewalls is to blame, as NAT in no way should affect /dcc bot chat, unless you're behind NAT too.

dehd · Post by **dehd** » Sat Jan 19, 2002 1:34 am

i'm only win98 box. going to 2k next week.

i dns the bot thru irc, it gives me my buddy box. i dcc chat the bot, it gives me..

Client: bot (10.10.10.2)
Acknowledging chat request...

sits like that forever
in my config file i did specify my telnet port, it tries to connect to that port, of that ip.

possibly change my telnet port?

tajson · Post by **tajson** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 12:35 am

i dns the bot thru irc, it gives me my buddy box. i dcc chat the bot, it gives me..

Client: bot (10.10.10.2)
Acknowledging chat request...

If you use the irc modules available on linux boxes (if it's a linux box?) on your buddys firewall the dynamic port ranges used by IRC should work. The thing is that your eggdrop reports its internal IP as dcc chatstring, and offcourse, that's the only one it knows of. You have to get the bot to present its external IP.

Try set $my-ip to the external ip your bot has.

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dehd · Post by **dehd** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 1:47 am

simple config file i am using

i added the following

set my-ip 10.10.10.2
# bot external ip

still no connection

when i had set $my-ip it actually gave me a error and didnt connect to irc.

bot is online now, with the set my-ip line

:/

dehd · Post by **dehd** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 2:03 am

i lso just tryind setting the ip as the ip of the cable line itself.

[11:15] Module loaded: blowfish
[11:15] TCL error in file 'hate.conf':
[11:15] Couldn't assign the requested IP. Please make sure 'my-ip' is set properly.
while executing
"listen 6543 all"
(file "hate.conf" line 68)
[11:15] * CONFIG FILE NOT LOADED (NOT FOUND, OR ERROR)

maybe this is a sign.. this botnet is suppousda get started.

tajson · Post by **tajson** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 2:23 am

On 2002-01-19 22:47, dehd wrote:
simple config file i am using

i added the following

set my-ip 10.10.10.2
# bot external ip

still no connection

when i had set $my-ip it actually gave me a error and didnt connect to irc.

bot is online now, with the set my-ip line

:/

I saw something of a $nat-ip in another thread in this forum, have you checked that?
If you set $my-ip to a IP eggdrop don't know as an internal IP it might refuse to start (I think...).
I can chat to my bot behind NAT using linux 2.4 irc conntracking module built in. I haven't set any specific variables in the configuration file. The module does it for me.

dehd · Post by **dehd** » Sun Jan 20, 2002 2:57 am

set nat-ip "x.x.x.x"

no connection as well.
considering i only have a shell account on the boxes. i know nuthing about the setup of these boxes, or about NAT or any of his operating systems. and considering the amount of info i can pull from his teeth... it's a losing battle.

at least for now. thanks for trying to help.