problem with DNS module/identing to irc servers...

|BeeR| · Post by **|BeeR|** » Sun Mar 24, 2002 6:03 am

I have a problem. My Egg wont/cant do DNS look ups on IRC servers. It gets an error about bad password, and cant do DNS lookup on server. I had it running 2 days ago and it was fine ... HELP

stdragon · Post by **stdragon** » Mon Mar 25, 2002 5:31 pm

What does dns lookup have to do with a password?

Phooka · Post by **Phooka** » Thu Jun 13, 2002 12:49 pm

ok i think i know the problem find the line in your eggdrop.conf file (wtf u named it):
loadmodule dns
add a # in front of it so it looks like
# loadmodule dns
then restart the bot then try again

ppslim · Post by **ppslim** » Fri Jun 14, 2002 8:47 am

phooka, as stdragon stated, what has that got to do with a password.

Besides, eggdrop does not need the dns module loaded. It can do lookup's perfectly fine without it, it just locks the bot for, about 1 to 2 seconds while doing it.

stdragon · Post by **stdragon** » Fri Jun 14, 2002 4:42 pm

If you think about it, if he got a "bad password" error from the server, that means he connected to the server, so the dns lookup is already over.

Maybe the error from the server said "DNS error: could not resolve your hostname" or something and he thought it was eggdrop saying it.

Petersen · Post by **Petersen** » Fri Jun 14, 2002 5:42 pm

or maybe someone rewrote the tcp sections of his kernel to need passwords for dns lookups (that would be an interesting project - acl's taken to the extreme)