DCC Sends Time Out

mabus · Post by **mabus** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:20 pm

Tried just about everything i can think of, am totally at a loss.
Read every faq i could get my hands on, and have scoured this message board. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:34 pm

firewall problems

search the forum again for "dcc firewall", it should come up with many articles, I personally have commented on this at least dozen of times

mabus · Post by **mabus** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 6:55 pm

Thanks for the reply, it doesn't work for anyone. I've tested it with a good dozen+ people thusfar, and they all are unable to recieve from it. Definately not a firewall issue

^DooM^ · Post by **^DooM^** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 7:54 pm

mabus wrote:Thanks for the reply, it doesn't work for anyone. I've tested it with a good dozen+ people thusfar, and they all are unable to recieve from it. Definately not a firewall issue

I think demond was refering to a firewall on the shell.

demond · Post by **demond** » Fri Jun 17, 2005 8:00 pm

what makes you think it's not your firewall which prevents people receiving files from you?

if they all can't receive a file from you via DCC, that means it's you that are unable to serve them - most likely because your app (bot or IRC client) can't open a random listening port for them to connect to (which is required by DCC protocol) - and the usual suspect is your firewall

mabus · Post by **mabus** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 9:46 am

Ah ok i misunderstood. Well the reason is that it's running off a commercial shell, and they are assuring me that the problem isn't with them. So it's definately a problem with the eggdrop itself somewhere. Any other suggestions?

demond · Post by **demond** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 11:06 am

post a log

use console +d

mabus · Post by **mabus** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 12:17 pm

This is what i get when i type .Console +d and try to initiate a DCC Send

<Zeis> [09:13] WARNING: open_telnet_raw() is about to block in gethostbyname()!
<Zeis> [09:13] net: connect! sock 9
<Zeis> [09:13] net: eof!(read) socket 9

Any thoughts what this could mean?

demond · Post by **demond** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:00 pm

that log doesn't show anything relevant.. where's the timeout?

anyway; you need to do 2 things:

ensure that you can open a listening port; talk to your shell admin about that - he/she has to allocate such port(s) for you in the system firewall's configuration (if there is a firewall)
include that port(s) in your reserved-portrange (see eggdrop.conf)

then you should be able to initiate DCC from your shell

(you = your bot)

mabus · Post by **mabus** » Sat Jun 18, 2005 5:02 pm

thank you for the suggestion. I'll talk to my admin about doing that