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    On 14/05/2012 13:08, Shazz of TRSi wrote:
    <blockquote cite="mid:20120514100807.132010@gmx.com" type="cite"><span
        style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">I
          "fixed" the issue in adding the reverse connect statement in
          the hybrid2 conf<br>
          But does it mean to connect it is REQUIRED that both servers
          know each other ? It is impossbile that a new server connects
          to an existing one without being configured/restarted (in the
          existing one) ?<br>
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    As far as I recall, two ircds must know each other in order to link.
    IRCD<->IRCD links require<br>
    a trust relationship, unlike for example SMTP or HTTP, since each
    server holds a state of the<br>
    network and can seriously fuck the network up (unlike smtp and http
    which is client->server).<br>
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    Quoting from IRC history (search Google):<br>
    <br>
    <br>
    <div class="subtitle" align="left">"EFnet </div>
    <p>In August 1990 the first major disagreement took place in the IRC
      world. The "A-net" (Anarchy net) included a server named
      eris.berkeley.edu. It was all open, required no passwords and had
      no limit on the number of connects. As Greg "wumpus" Lindahl
      explains: <i>"it had a wildcard server line, so people were
        hooking up servers and nick-colliding everyone"</i>. </p>
    <p>The "Eris Free network", EFnet, made the eris machine the first
      to be Q-lined (Q for quarantine) from IRC (wumpus' words again: <i>"Eris
        refused to remove that line, so I formed EFnet. It wasn't much
        of a fight; I got all the hubs to join, and almost everyone else
        got carried along."</i>). A-net was formed with the eris
      servers, EFnet was formed with the non-eris servers. History
      showed most servers and users went with EFnet. The name EFnet
      lived only shortly, as soon as ANet had died, the name EFnet
      became void too. There was one and only IRC left again."<br>
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      Ariel<br>
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                  Original Message -----</span></span></p>
            <p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;"> <span
                style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">From:
                  Shazz of TRSi</span></span></p>
            <p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;"> <span
                style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">Sent:
                  14/05/12 11:30 AM</span></span></p>
            <p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;"> <span
                style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">To:
                  <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hybrid@lists.ircd-hybrid.org">hybrid@lists.ircd-hybrid.org</a></span></span></p>
            <p style="margin:0px; padding:0px;"> <span
                style="font-family:Verdana"><span style="font-size:12px">Subject:
                  [hybrid] Issue while connecting 2 hybrid servers</span></span></p>
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              <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                  style="font-size:12px">Hello,<br>
                  <br>
                  I have installed 2 hybrid servers
                  (hybrid1:192.168.22.132 and hybrid2:192.168.22.131),
                  that works.<br>
                  Then I'd like the 1st one to connect to the 2nd one
                  (to share channels and users)<br>
                  <br>
                  so in hybrid1 conf I have added :</span></span><br>
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              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">connect {</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        name = "hybrid2.log";</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        host =
                    "192.168.22.131";</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        send_password =
                    "password";</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        accept_password =
                    "anotherpassword";</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        encrypted = no;</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        port = 6666;</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        hub_mask = "*";</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        class = "server";</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        autoconn = yes;</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        #compressed = yes;</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        #lazylink = yes;</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">        #fakename = "*.arpa";</span></span></div>
              <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">};</span></span></div>
              <div> <br>
                <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                    style="font-size:12px">but as oper when I do
                    /connect hybrid2.log I've got :</span></span><br>
                <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                      style="font-size:12px">*** Connecting to
                      192.168.22.131[hybrid2.log].6666 <br>
                      *** Notice -- ERROR :from
                      hybrid2.log[<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:unknown@192.168.22.131">unknown@192.168.22.131</a>] -- Closing
                      Link: 192.168.22.132 (Invalid servername.)</span></span></div>
                <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                      style="font-size:12px">*** Notice -- Server
                      hybrid2.log[<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:unknown@192.168.22.131">unknown@192.168.22.131</a>] closed the
                      connection</span></span></div>
                <div> <span style="font-family:Verdana"><span
                      style="font-size:12px">*** Notice -- hybrid2.log
                      had been connected for 0 days,  0:00:00<br>
                      <br>
                      The 2 servers can ping each other so no network
                      issue, no firewalling, users can connect to both.<br>
                      <br>
                      So I guess that's a conf issue ? Where
                      should send_password and accept_password need to
                      be set on the hybrid2 server ?<br>
                      <br>
                      Thanks !<br>
                      <br>
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