I'm running eggdrop 1.6.8, and I get disconnected from the botnet after a short amount of idle time(I narrowed it down to some 30 minutes).
The weird part is that it doesn't notify me that I'm being disconnected, i usually find out by trying to send something to the botnet and it comes out with that my connection is lost. Naturally, i checked if this were a problem with mIRC, but it also does it with a telnet connection.
I tried looking over the config file for a clue to this but i couldn't find any.
Hope some of you can help me.
you (or the bot) running behind a NAT router? routers that use NAT make dynamic rules about connections. If no data is sent between 2 connected hosts for a specified period, then it times out. telnet/dcc only send packets between each other when some form of input/output is sent. If you're connected to a bot and you send nothing, and it has nothing to send back at you, it may time out a NAT connection. simple way to fix this is by having a simple repeating timer for it to send you data, or vice versa (eg, you send .status to it every 5 mins)
yes, that seemed to do it! I added my eggy's telnet port to my router so it forwarded it directly to my comp. on the network, and it enabled me to use direct dcc chats(I hope it fixes the issue).
Thank-you for your quick response!