[hybrid] Clients can't connect (register) on Ubuntu 12.04LTS system

[Jack L.]

Have you tried on another machine? Maybe it's a client side firewall?

On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 7:28 PM, rjvahc at googlemail.com
<rjvahc at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I know this problem, but there is no solution in few words. You must dig
> deep to get out what's the problem this day, reading logs, modifying
> configs in small steps and so on. I could try to help going into machine
> if it is clean with no sensible data, but no idea what it could be with
> the text you provided. By the way, sentences with "...Ident response"
> are kinda only thing an IRC server says when having problems, it's like
> "* Ident response" = "I got problems", with no details what problems it
> could be.
>
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> В Чтв, 11/07/2013 в 21:43 +0100, David Smith пишет:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having a headache of a time building a PC to replace my previous
>> server box, which has been running ircd-hybrid for many years.
>>
>>
>> The new box is a 64bit machine, with Ubuntu 12.04LTS 64-bit server
>> edition installed.
>>
>> I've installed ircd-hybrid, and moved my old config across, but when
>> that failed to work, I went back to basics, and used the provided
>> ircd.conf, with only the server IP and the "havent_read_conf" setting
>> changed (i.e. no server passwords or any other obvious gotchas).
>>
>> The problem is that whenever any client connects, I get the following:
>> 21:20 -!- Irssi: Connection to 10.9.2.1 established
>> 21:20 !hybrid7.debian.local *** Looking up your hostname...
>> 21:20 !hybrid7.debian.local *** Checking Ident
>> 21:20 !hybrid7.debian.local *** No Ident response
>>
>>
>> ....but then *nothing* else.  I can leave it for many minutes, (5...
>> 10...), after which the connection sometimes drops out, sometimes
>> doesn't, depending on the client.
>>
>>
>> I have tried through the 127.0.0.1 address, and through the eth0 LAN
>> address.  I have tried clients on other machines.  There is no
>> firewall in the way (nothing in "iptables -L").
>>
>>
>>
>> Don't be fooled by the "No Ident response" final line... I have tried
>> installing an ident server, so that it DID get an ident response, and
>> it halted at just the same point.
>>
>>
>>
>> The version installed here is the stock from Ubuntu12.04LTS,
>> 7.2.2.dfsg.2-6.3 but I have tried other versions from ealier/later
>> Ubuntu distros.  I think I've also tired an 8.x version (..I've tried
>> so many things, I've lost track..), and all of those that I have
>> managed to install/compile successfully have behaved the in the same
>> way.  My original attempt was a self-compiled .deb with SSL enabled,
>> but, again, that did not work, although the very same .deb did work on
>> another 12.04LTS 64-bit machine.  I've even formatted the box, and
>> done a fresh OS install followed by an apt-get install of hybrid-ircd,
>> and still get the same results!
>>
>>
>> I have only found a handful of posts describing this problem on
>> Google, and of those, one ended in the advice of "use another ircd",
>> and the other threads just went cold, or never got a first response.
>> I cannot use another ircd, since I'm joining this to other
>> hybrid-ircds on other boxes.
>>
>>
>> (eg http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1432177  and
>> http://bit.ly/18QqdHs  both sound like my problem, but with no
>> solutions).
>>
>>
>>
>> So.. have you guys come across anything like this?  Or, what can I do
>> to help diagnose the problem?
>>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>>
>> --Dave
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