[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
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 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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