Bot unable to connect (time outs)

Lostelei · Post by **Lostelei** » Fri Sep 15, 2006 5:19 pm

I've set up the eggdrop and everything seems to be working now - no error messages anymore.
But the bot doesn't show up on IRC. If I start eggdrop with -n I'll see that the bot tries to connect to the server, but then after a minute gets a time out. He cycles through all three servers I've set and will time out on every try.
The servers do work, so they are not to blame. (irc.link-net.org, irc.discostars.de, and irc.hell.at - if you want to check for yourself)
As far as I know there was an eggdrop set up before on the server I'm using and it worked. So maybe it's something about permissions (I'm not admin) or in the .conf? I tried not to mess anything up, that could affect connecting though.

and another thing... is there a permanent way to set the TCL library path?
The export command doesn't seem to be permanent.

ac1d · Post by **ac1d** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:21 pm

i'm having same problem.
exactly same except privileges on shell. (i have root)
anyone have idea?

Alchera · Post by **Alchera** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 6:15 pm

Checked your firewall/router settings?

Post by **nml375** » Sun Sep 17, 2006 9:38 am

you could put your "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=..." into your .bashrc or .profile (depending on which shell you're using); or, if you're starting it from crontab, put it in your crontab-file (without export tho).

kugar · Post by **kugar** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 8:13 am

tried adding that to my bash.bashrc but still timeouts to the server. No firewall setup on dedicated debian server.

rosc2112 · Post by **rosc2112** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:30 pm

# Set here how long Eggdrop should wait for a response when connecting to # a server before giving up and moving on to next server.
set server-timeout 60

Possibly need a longer timeout?

Lostelei · Post by **Lostelei** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:42 pm

As far as I know there's no firewall. at least I can run other services from my user account that require online connectivity without problems.
Also I doubt that my time out setting has something to do with it, I mean 60 seconds is pretty long time. And usually I can connect to those server with my own IRC client in like one or two seconds.

rosc2112 · Post by **rosc2112** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:47 pm

Another idea, my shell provider *requires* us to use a vhostname to connect to irc. Perhaps your shell provider does the same?

kugar · Post by **kugar** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:36 pm

its actually a dedicated unix server that I have in canada. No vhosts just ip's which I bind to but it doesnt work.

kugar · Post by **kugar** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:37 pm

[13:24] main: entering loop
[13:24] Trying server irc.gamesurge.net:6667
[13:24] DNS resolved irc.gamesurge.net to 213.247.51.21
[13:25] Timeout: connect to irc.gamesurge.net
[13:25] Trying server irc.gamesurge.net:6667
[13:25] DNS resolved irc.gamesurge.net to 213.247.51.21

Alchera · Post by **Alchera** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:44 pm

IRC requires IDENT via port 113 if there is no valid response then I believe you will have dramas.