Ok so we have this 3 bot botnet up and running for our irc channel. What we've done is created 1 hub and 2 leaves. Everything is running fine but after an outage on the computer running hte hub we decided to add another hub on a different network/pc.
So now there are 4 bots. 2 hubs, 1 main, 1 backup and 2 leaves. The problem comes into play, which is that, if the main hub goes down and the two leaves connect to the backup hub then they aren't using the same user/channel files. If on the backup hub only 5 users are listed whereas on the main hub all the users to date are available.
What I want to know.. how do we get the two hubs to communicate to eachother their user/channel files?? Right now they are both limbo hubs, ie. neither are on a channel/network although for testing I do have the backup bot, atm, on the irc network the bots are on.
Also, I've been searching and have yet to come up with an answer, although the occasion hasn't risen until the first issue is solved, but how do we get the two leaves to connect to the _main_ hub once it is backup? And disconnect the bots from the backup hub? We just want the backup hub in use when the main is down but we want the backup hub's user/channel files up-to-date. If this can't be done that's fine. As long as the *real* user/channel files are in circulation with the botnet, things will be fine. Thanx in advance for any help as reading this alone is worth a thanx.