[hybrid] Clients can't connect (register) on Ubuntu 12.04LTS system
rjvahc at googlemail.com
rjvahc at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 12 04:33:28 EDT 2013
Congrats and thanks for info on the solution.
В Птн, 12/07/2013 в 09:22 +0100, David Smith пишет:
> FIXED!
>
> Thank you Amrit! Although I had a handful of hosts in my /etc/hosts
> file, I seemingly hadn't correctly set up resolv.conf (although I
> don't understand why 127.0.0.1 didn't work). I'm sure I'd done this
> the first time around, but since I did a complete re-install of the
> box to try and get this working, I had literally installed ircd-hybrid
> as the first thing I did, and hadn't checked the basics (I case of
> making the machine run before it could walk, perhaps.. although my
> first attempt definitely did have DNS working, but we'll never know
> why that didn't work).
>
>
> The give-away, now that it's working is that after the previously
> stalled "No Ident response" line, I now get
> 09:16 !copstick4 *** No Ident response
> 09:16 !copstick4 *** Found your hostname
> 09:16 -!- Welcome to the debian Internet Relay Chat Network Dave_
>
>
> ...showing that hostname lookup was what was halting it. (For the
> record Amrit, I couldn't find an option in the config to disable
> hostname lookups).
>
>
> This is all working with a very basic stock config file, and without
> SSL compiled in... now that is working I will start piling on the more
> complex stuff when I get home from work tonight.
>
>
> Finally, for any newbies googling this, the complete fix was just a
> case of adding:
> dns-nameservers 10.9.2.99
>
> ...to the eth0 section of my /etc/network/interfaces file and
> rebooting, so that /etc/resolv.conf got the right nameserver written
> to it when networking came up.
>
> Thanks everyone for your help and suggestions. I'm almost embarrassed
> at what a basic error I had made. I'll go back to building up a more
> complex config later on.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --Dave
>
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> On 12 July 2013 08:37, Amrit Panesar <apanesar at 4195tech.com> wrote:
> I've had a similar issue before and if my memory serves me
> correctly, there is an option to disable hostname lookups, my
> recommendation is to perhaps disable hostname lookups or
> ensure that your system-wide DNS settings are set correctly.
> Google DNS works well for me (8.8.8.8/8.8.4.4)
>
>
> -AP
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 12, 2013, at 12:23 AM, David Smith <dfluff76
> +hybrid at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> > I have tried several machines, including connecting locally
> > from the problem machine on 127.0.0.1. All fail in the same
> > way. All machine are able to connect to other irc servers
> > without problem, both on the local LAN and out on the
> > internet.
> >
> >
> > --Dave
> >
> >
> >
> > On 12 July 2013 03:46, Jack L. <xxjack12xx at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > 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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