is there a limit to amount of netbots?

TurboChicken · Post by **TurboChicken** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:37 pm

hi, me again.

is there smoe kind of limit to the amount of bots there can be on a netbots botnet....

i have 25 there atm... as soon as i add the 26th... and it linked... i get transferring userfile... (DG hub and PH leaf)

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[18:29] <DG> [13:35] Linked to PH.
[18:29] <DG> *** Linked to PH
[18:29] <DG> [13:35] Creating resync buffer for PH
[18:29] <DG> [13:35] Sending user file send request to PH

then disconnected and bot gets input/output error

and on PH

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18:29] <PH> [12:26] Linked to DG.
[18:29] <PH> *** Linked to DG
[18:29] <PH> [12:26] Downloading user file from DG
[18:29] <PH> [12:26] Lost bot: DG (lost 25 bots and 1 user).
[18:29] <PH> *** Lost bot: DG (lost 25 bots and 1 user)
[18:29] <PH> [12:26] (Userlist download aborted.)

but that one stays online.

it's weird....

any help would be great

Turbo

if there is a limit... is there a way found it?? coz i need 34 bots on it atm... possibly a few more.

demond · Post by **demond** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:03 pm

just out of curiousity... what do you need 25 netbots for???

I can't think of a reason other than guarding channel(s) on a network with no services - but on EFnet you have ChanFix (which requires no more than 5 static IP clients to score points for ops), and on IRCnet... well, it must be IRCnet, they got nothing

TurboChicken · Post by **TurboChicken** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:22 pm

basically they are all dedicated servers in datacentres.... and i use them to monitor the bwusage.... as you will see in previous posts that's the script i've been creating...

but i'm using netbots as a way to update the script as i go... and add new ones to all the bots.

it's actually on an unreal server with services. so no need for chan protection at all.

so is there a way around it?

YooHoo · Post by **YooHoo** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:23 pm

i have 78 netbots linked and sharing....so i would presume the answer to your question is there a limit... would be no.

TurboChicken · Post by **TurboChicken** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 3:37 pm

so is there something special i need to do... i saw something about alternate hubs etc. is that what i need to do???

i would prefer just 1 hub bot personally coz i really can't be bothered logining into all the shells to update the files if i change them.

demond · Post by **demond** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:44 pm

set console to +th (log botnet traffic, share traffic) and see what's happening on bot link

TurboChicken · Post by **TurboChicken** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:02 pm

well setting +th didn't seem to change anything

but....
i've checked in the eggdrop.log.... and found something interesting

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[16:01] Telnet connection: ******I've hidden this*****/38352
[16:01] Timeout/EOF ident connection
[16:01] * Last context: tclhash.c/688 []
[16:01] * Please REPORT this BUG!
[16:01] * Check doc/BUG-REPORT on how to do so.
[16:01] * Wrote DEBUG
[16:01] * SEGMENT VIOLATION -- CRASHING!

that's the last thing in there???

does this help?

demond · Post by **demond** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:20 pm

it might help the eggdrop developers in fixing the problem, that's why they are asking you to report it

unfortunately, that particular error (last context in tclhash.c, that means last passed execution checkpoint was in tclhash.c, which handles scripts) seems to be all too common, and related bug(s) not fixed for years now

all you can do is try to unload some possibly unnecessary scripts

TurboChicken · Post by **TurboChicken** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 6:11 pm

so in effect we're saying that the netbot.tcl is causing the problem.. and that there is not way around it.

i only say that because that is only script that would be being used at the point of connection....

so maybe a script fix??? is there a way of working around it script wise??

coz i've tried adding lots of different bots so it's not certain bots that are doing it.

someone here said that they had lots of bot's.... how do you do it?

demond · Post by **demond** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 7:24 pm

netbots may be causing the problem, but your bot crashes not because of the netbots script but because of a bug in eggdrop, possibly triggerred by netbots - which is basically the same for you, but nevertheless an important distinction

YooHoo · Post by **YooHoo** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:39 pm

i sincerely doubt netbots has anything to do with this. Rather, I would look towards other third-party scripts, or increasing the several conf file variables that controls 'timeout', such as set ident-timeout or set connect-timeout...
hope this helps...

TurboChicken · Post by **TurboChicken** » Sun Mar 13, 2005 9:40 pm

well after advice from folks on freenode... i've setup minhubs... and it's working fine now.... thanx for the help anyway