A friend of mine is having a similar issue with his bot. The bot (v. 1.6.18 ) is running on a home server, I believe it is connected via cable-modem. The server is running Ubuntu. The bot continually pings out (And the timeout is
always 260 seconds). The bot times out at least 10-15 times per day.
It doesn't seem to have any patterns on how often it disconnects, but is usually every hour or two. However, the bot never disconnects from the botnet, only the IRC server. Also, the owner also runs an IRC client on the same machine, connecting to the same IRC servers the bot uses, and doesn't experience any connectivity issues. He has tried the server ping tcl script, to no avail, and also has the realname variable set. He has tried disabling all TCL scripts, and the bot still times out.. Any ideas?
Thanks!