I followed the directions to setup the botnet but it doesn't look like the leaf bots are talking to the main. I am running the main and 1 bot from the same machine and same dir (using 2 different configs).
I do not see any errors from with the DCC session of the bot. I will look at the logs and see
.whois from xyzbot:
7:32am 12<xyzbot12> [07:30] #Encino# whois en
7:32am 12<xyzbot12> HANDLE PASS NOTES FLAGS LAST
7:32am 12<xyzbot12> ABCbot no 0 b never (nowhere)
7:32am 12<xyzbot12> #XXX s never
7:32am 12<xyzbot12> #XXX-pre s never
7:32am 12<xyzbot12> BOT FLAGS: ghp
7:32am 12<xyzbot12> ADDRESS: xxx.xxx.net
7:32am 12<xyzbot12> users: 4455, bots: 4455
.whois from abcbot (hub)
8:28am 12<ABCbot12> [08:26] #Intel# whois a1pbot
8:28am 12<ABCbot12> HANDLE PASS NOTES FLAGS LAST
8:28am 12<ABCbot12> a1pbot no 0 bflo never (nowhere)
8:28am 12<ABCbot12> #XXX s never
8:28am 12<ABCbot12> #XXX-pre s never
8:28am 12<ABCbot12> BOT FLAGS: gs
8:28am 12<ABCbot12> ADDRESS:
8:28am 12<ABCbot12> users: 3333, bots: 3333
your bots obviously don't recognize each other, so you have made a mistake somewhere, most likely with the hostmask. Follow the directions laid out here exactly to link your bots
I know. I followed the directions and even redid the whole thing and its the same thing. Again, I am running both bots from the same computer and same dir. I am loading them using 2 different config files. For abcbot I do ./eggdrop abcbot.conf and for xyzbot I do ./eggdrop xyzbot.conf
I am behind a router (linksys) but I put the IP address in the DMZ zone.
Is there a command I can run when I dcc chat the bot to see why it cant connect?
yes it is: .link botname
but I don't see any address in your both bots, xxx.xxx.xx.net I dont think it is a proper adddress and second bot is missing the whole address as well.
There's a difference between "normal" flags (set by .chattr) and "botflags" (only applies to bots, set by .botattr). Flags regarding linking and sharing are botflags, not normal flags.