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Exterus · Voice Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 13

Hi!

I have a question that touches both the uptime module and the eggheads uptime contest. I know this site isn't directly involved in the contest, but the eggheads page links here, so I thought I'd give it a go anyway.

Alright, I loaded the module and the bot showed up at the uptime contest page fine at first, but after a few days it was labelled "untrustworthy". Plus, another entry with the same bot name showed up, with the exact same stats. On the info page for the bot, it also says it has only sent 1 packet, even though its uptime is at 10 days by now.

So, are there any known bugs in that module that might cause this? I know about the .restart bug in some earler versions of eggdrop, but that was resolved, right?

http://uptime.eggheads.org/?botnick=Pajsaren

starpossen · Op Joined: 10 Jan 2006 Posts: 139

Maybe it's because you got 3 eggs running?
Im no guru in this module, so i'm just guessing.

For me the module works just fine using version v1.6.18

YooHoo · Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject:

Exterus · Voice Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 13

I have one eggdrop running. No more.

And yes, I have read the entry about untrustworthiness on the uptime site. It does not explain WHY my bot has been marked as untrustworthy when I know I'm not cheating. That why I asked if there are any known bugs in the uptime module (except the restart bug, which I mentioned I knew about) that could cause this, or if I have somehow managed to screw it up on my end.

Soth · Voice Joined: 23 Aug 2008 Posts: 1

My bot just stops being listed at all over about a day or so of uptime. Anybody else have similar problems?

Joori · Voice Joined: 24 Mar 2006 Posts: 34 Location: Sydney

Bit of an old thread and sorry to bump it up, but yeah, I'm having the same problem. My eggdrop has been up a day less than my box's uptime ~58 day mark.. and despite a .restart it still shows my eggdrop as being untrustworthy and with no rank number! ...running eggdrop 1.6.19. I thought this bug was fixed? Rolling Eyes

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evilchen · Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2009 8:08 am Post subject:

Hi there,

i've got the same problem.
I'm running 2 eggdrops V 1.6.18

after an hard Restart of the Eggdrops, they are shown for a view days in the List.
after a couple of days they send only 3 or 4 uptime packets.
after maybe 2 or 3 weeks they aren't listet anymore.

i'm sad about this, bcaus my bots are mostly running for Jears without a reboot.
it wouldn't be a Problem to be on one of the highest places of the Score Wink

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ZubaZ · Voice Joined: 25 Oct 2007 Posts: 2

So in fact there are only problems and no solution.

I did some testing with tcpdump by grepping the ip of uptime.eggheads.org and find out that actually the port on which the module should send the packet, is giving connection refused. There is any blacklist that we should know of? Or maybe there are some wrong parameters in the module souce.

nml375 · Revered One Joined: 04 Aug 2006 Posts: 2857

The uptime 'pings' are sent using UTP-packets, which are connectionless. As such, you cannot use the telnet application for testing.
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DOSman · Voice Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 2

I have an eggdrop bot v6.15 with v1.2 uptime module. This should meet the minimum requirements. My bot used to be on the list but now it is not.
A search on the site did not find it. My bot currently has an uptime of 415 days, and I have reached over a year on other occasions. I just think if might be fun to compete the next time I restart a bot.

That said, and having read and complied with the info page and checked the forums does anyone have any concrete suggestions on how to approach entering this contest? Is there a point of contact?

evilchen · Posted: Mon May 18, 2009 2:15 pm Post subject:

At this time i don't have any solutions.

I'm still in hope.
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DOSman · Voice Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 2

Thanks for the reply evilchen, We are boh hoping, just wish there was something we could do in the meantime.

grnbrg · Voice Joined: 08 May 2010 Posts: 1

I spent some time working with the devs early in the year, and the uptime contest is now working properly. The main issue was that the logging daemon on the uptime.eggheads.org host was for some reason losing it's connection to the MySQL database that records the contest.

Changes were made to the daemon to fix this, and to drop many bots that were behaving suspiciously. I also produced a patch to the uptime module that randomizes the time that the updates are sent. Originally (and for the foreseeable future, until the patch becomes more widely used) the uptime module sent it's update packets around the top of the hour, and the server would see a noticeable spike in traffic. The patch sends an update every 0-(12 hours * 3600) seconds, which averages out to once every 6 hours or so.

So, if you're running a bot with the uptime module enabled that has been started since around January, check the contest -- you're probably in it and up to date. If you've got an uptime of more than 6 months or so, you're probably flagged as "untrustworthy". Sad

Patch your uptime module, and restart your bot.

It's on!

grnbrg.

evilchen · Posted: Mon May 10, 2010 6:38 am Post subject:

thanks for the time u send.
I'll test the patches u made when i find the Time to do so.

I'll report here...
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