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[Achilles]

I am running a botnet with 5 eggdrops. I have been running for for over a year now but recently had to move the eggs to another machine. I have been trying to setup the eggs on a new machine and all works fine until they start sharing files and they time out.


These are echo's I get from the hub:

[demond]

hmm it's about time for someone to come up with DCC/userfile transfer (and possibly NAT/firewall) FAQ

you likely have firewall problem, talk to your shell admin, tell them you need at least one port open and listening, and refer to reserved-portrange in eggdrop.conf

[Achilles]

I have the reserved portrange set:

set reserved-portrange 5900:5950

And I have ports 5900 to 6000 open and listening.

[demond]

Failed connection; aborted userfile transfer. -- that means the leaf can't connect to hub's port, 5900:5950 or whatever (technically, in eggdrop's terminology, that's EOF, i.e. write() on that DCC socket has returned < 0, meaning either reset or never established connection), a typical firewall problem

[Achilles]

All of the bots are on the same box, all using local (behind the nat/firewall) ips (ie. 192.168.1*) Would the firewall issue still be an issue? Should they not be all local IP?

[demond]

on the same box but using different local IPs? that doesn't make sense at all

anyway, make sure you have my-ip set properly on all bots (and bot userrecords of course)

[Achilles]

Sorry, I wrote that wrong, they are all on the same local IP, differant ports.

[demond]

if the problem persists, set your console to +thd and show us the log from the moment of linking, also the output of .dccstat

[Achilles]

It would appear that it is working now. I had my-ip set to the external IP and not the internal and it seems to have fixed it. Way to go me.

Thanks for your help