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That's a good idea, thanks. Unfortunately, it didn't change anything for me. I even added *!*@* to both bots' host lists. *sigh*

Just wanted to mention that I'm having the *exact* same problem. I'm running both the hub and leaf bots on the same machine, which I have complete control over. The firewall is open for needed ports, and I even tried it with the firewall completely disabled. All other botnet features function correc...