DCC Chat outgoing port - not possible to specify ?

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:23 pm

Hi,

I have setup my eggdrop on a unix redhat 9 machine with APF firewall. My firewall blocks incoming and outgoing ports. I have setup everything correctly in the config file of the bot, but apparently it is not possible for the bot to establish a DCC chat connection without blocking the outgoing ports scanning of the firewall.

I have specified the reserved portrange, opened the ports in the firewall, but this didn't help, as I suppose the reserved portrange is only for file transfers.

So, isn't there a way to specify a limited amount of outgoing ports the bot uses to connect to the user? I can't turn outgoing ports blocking off in the firewall. I have been asking this question in all eggdrop help channels on IRC, and nobody seemed able to help.

Thank you!

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:00 pm

set this in your config to a port to listen on and allow it to pass through your firewall

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# You need to un-comment this line and change the port number in order to open
# the listen port. You should not keep this set to 3333.
listen 3333 all

this should allow you to /dcc chat <botnick> or /ctcp <botnick> chat depending on how stuborn your firewall is

DirtyHarry · Post by **DirtyHarry** » Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:07 pm

Sadly I already tried! It doesn't seem to help with DCC chat, at least not in output.

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 3:14 am

did you try my last suggestion using

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/ctcp botnick chat

because that will be an incoming connection rather than an outgoing?

De Kus · Post by **De Kus** » Sun Jan 30, 2005 10:08 am

If you want to change the outgoing port, you must make the bot to connect to one that is reserved.
in exp., if the bot may make a conntion to 21000-21020 then set your mIRC dcc port ranges to these values, so you client will give your bot a port from this range when doing a /dcc chat

. As DooM said, another work around would be to use the ctcp command, so the connection initiation is done from your irc client using one of the in .conf reserved dcc ports.