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flyingbaobab · Voice Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Europe

Hi,

Whenever I try to /ctcp mybot CHAT i get no ctcp reply.

What I've tried so far:
- opened proper firewall port on my Suse Linux home OS
- logged in with different irc clients (kvirc, konversation & xchat)
- tried many different ports
- tried both connecting trough and without bouncer
- changed my vhost / IP
- logged in from a windows comp with mirc, addjusted the settings like I've found in the 'Help us to help you (and try to help yourself)' post in this forum.
- went 4 times trough the config file to find a setting i missed
- the ports on my shell aren't blocked, cause i've tried to connect through them via psybnc and that works fine

Other info

- Running Eggdrop 1.6.18
- I'm not on a LAN
- 1.6.17 used to work fine with same home configuration and on the same shell
- The bot appears fine on irc, and when opping him he does what he needs to do regarding channel management
- I'm on a private irc network using chanserv/nickserv
- When I telnet from the console to my bot and then try to ctcp him on irc i get following message in telnet:

*** X joined the party line.
[09:34] CTCP CHAT: from X (~X@X.users.X.com)
(where X is my nick and irc server)

- When I start the bot i get
Eggdrop v1.6.18 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2006 Eggheads
[09:18] --- Loading eggdrop v1.6.18 (Fri Sep 22 2006)
[09:18] Listening at telnet port 34567 (all).
[09:18] Module loaded: dns
[09:18] Module loaded: channels
[09:18] Module loaded: server
[09:18] Module loaded: ctcp
[09:18] Module loaded: irc
[09:18] Module loaded: notes (with lang support)
[09:18] Module loaded: console (with lang support)
[09:18] Module loaded: blowfish
[09:18] Module loaded: uptime
[09:18] Userinfo TCL v1.07 loaded (URL BF GF IRL EMAIL DOB PHONE ICQ).
[09:18] use '.help userinfo' for commands.
[09:18] Userfile loaded, unpacking...
[09:18] === flyingbao: 1 channels, 1 users.
Launched into the background (pid: 13976)

- In my logs I see

[06:09] CTCP hello: from X (~X@X.users.X.com)
[06:13] CTCP CHAT: from X (~X@X.users.X.com)

My question

Since I run out of knowledge cq ideas how to solve this: anyone a tip / tutorial / debug tool / etc for what I could do to fix this? Or at least know why it isn't working?

Thx in advance
F.B. Rolling Eyes

rosc2112 · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 6:51 am Post subject:

Checked your userfile for the +p flag to allow connecting to the partyline? Checked your hostmasks for your handle in the userfile? Smile

The other suggestions I have would be:

Most clients use "/dcc chat nick" not /ctcp (although I don't know if that even makes a difference..Never thought to look at the src for my irc client for that.)

I'm thinking that's the problem cos my log shows (and yours does not show the DCC):

[00:32] CTCP DCC: CHAT chat 3454983022 33069 from rosc (~rosc@xanadu.rush2112.vh)

The other idea that occurred to me, was to make sure you have the ip_conntrack_irc module loaded for your firewall in linux if you're using iptables.

flyingbaobab · Voice Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Europe

First of all thx for your reply and suggested help. When I tell my 'commercial' friends about the level of feedback and willigness of helping someone with opensource stuff, they never believe me Razz

rosc2112 · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 10:42 am Post subject:

Aha, you're only allowing telnet! Smile

I have these hosts for example, in my userfile:

--HOSTS -telnet!*@*
--HOSTS *!~rosc@xanadu.rush2112.vh

PS:
(Might wanna change your password now, cos I think that can be decrypted Wink

flyingbaobab · Voice Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Europe

Added that in my userfile, no difference Sad

(my password was just some random text btw, so no need to worry Razz

)

Anyhow, thinking of just reinstalling my Eggdrop (prolly older version) and see what happens ...

Edit = typo

Alchera · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 11:07 am Post subject:

Anyone with the nick -telnet gets recognised as the bot owner (nothing to do with telnet btw); no idea why this is added, maybe a hangover from the first eggdrop. I'd be removing it.

*!~rosc@ is best as *!rosc@
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rosc2112 · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject:

Alchera · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 7:15 pm Post subject:

You cannot simply DCC chat the bot?

Try *!rosc@ and you'll still be recognised.

If using *nix as your OS compile linux-identd to take care of your ident "problem".
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rosc2112 · Posted: Fri Sep 22, 2006 8:55 pm Post subject:

I can dcc chat it, was just noting that I could not telnet to it without that entry.

I have identd disabled on purpose, cos I think it's useless for anything (so easily spoofed it serves no legitimate purpose in this day and age) except possibly to show that an IP is connected to a particular port..which should already be evident by being connected! Smile

Alchera · Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:18 pm Post subject:

IRC networks require a response via 113 (AUTH); some will even refuse connection if there is none (is also a common problem when eggdrop cannot connect).

You need to do some reading up on the Gibson Research Corporation site.
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DragnLord · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 12:24 pm Post subject:

looking at the original post, this may be a simple matter to fix
it appears the bot was not correctly identified to

Alchera · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:23 pm Post subject:

flyingbaobab · Voice Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Europe

DragnLord · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 1:43 am Post subject:

other possibility is that your irc is not allowing it
(bot sends, your client ignores)
such things happen when you are behind a router and your LAN address is different then your WAN address
too many variables and not enough information to accurately assess the situation

flyingbaobab · Voice Joined: 22 Sep 2006 Posts: 8 Location: Europe

I was thinking of that one 2, but i usualy run kvirc. Cause it didn't work i tried both xchat & konversation. Even on a standalone windows box with mirc he won't reply (from another internetconnection) and yes, changed my stuff via telnet in my user file when I tried that.

But I'll learn to live with it Smile