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Eggdrops Wont Stay Linked

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Eggdrops Wont Stay Linked

Post by Talon »

Hi all I am having a strange problem with all versions of eggdrops that I run
If any one has the time or has seen this problem ...
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Information:
I have 1 hub bot running on my home machine
freebsd 5.3 stable

I have several bots on other servers that i would like to link to my hub bot
In this example i will stick to 2 bots _ hub and BSD the bot i want to link.
i use .+bot host:port on both bots like it says in the help file

My hub bot _ listens on port 50000
The bot BSD i want to link listens on port 40000

On the bot BSD i wish to link i type .link _ (_ is the hub bots name)

[08:58] #talon# link _
[08:58] Linking to _ at www.unix.org.au:50000 ...
[08:58] Received challenge from _... sending response ...
[08:58] Linked to _.
*** Linked to _

On the hub Bot _ I see this

[09:58] Telnet connection: BSD'sHOSTNAME/50230
[09:58] Timeout/EOF ident connection
[09:58] Challenging BSD...
[09:58] Linked to BSD.
*** Linked to BSD

Bottree looks good !!

[10:01] #talon# bottree
_
`--BSD
Average hops: 1.0, total bots: 2

Life is good :) everything is normal on both bots

[09:00] Writing user file...
[09:00] Writing channel file...

After about 5 minutes I see the following

On BSD the bot i want to link

[09:05] Ping timeout: _
*** Ping timeout: _ (lost 1 bot and 1 user)

On _ the hub bot I see The following

[10:05] Ping timeout: BSD
*** Ping timeout: BSD (lost 1 bot and 1 user)

I have no idea how to fix this :(
i have tried updating recompiling unloading all scripts etc etc
Its rather annoying i must say

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Could it be the time thing both bots are an exactly an hour out of sync
Daylight savings crap ??

Both machines block ICMP (Pings) ??


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Post by demond »

botnet's "Ping timeout" has nothing to do with ICMP, botnet's "ping" is simply a bot message over the TCP connection between bots which needs to be answered within a pre-defined period of time

apparently your TCP bot-to-bot connections have a problem, you need to investigate that (check your firewall, test with other network services, ask your admin if you have one, etc.)
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Post by YooHoo »

Try to increase set ident-timeout to a reasonable value, such as 30.
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Post by demond »

YooHoo wrote:Try to increase set ident-timeout to a reasonable value, such as 30.
ident-timeout is unrelated to the problem
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