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Dropkick Punt

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Apr 11, 2007, 9:31:50 AM4/11/07
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Hi. I've written a bot in python, using the irclib by Joel Rosdahl.

Works fine from my linux box at home, but when I upload it to my shell at
veritynet.net, can't seem to get it to connect to an irc server.

It doesn't report any errors.

Anyone have any idea how I might go about at least diagnosing the problem?
Any suggestions might help.

Thanks in advance.

Paul Boddie

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Apr 11, 2007, 9:46:14 AM4/11/07
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On 11 Apr, 15:31, "Dropkick Punt" <notrealaddr...@all.com> wrote:
> Hi. I've written a bot in python, using the irclib by Joel Rosdahl.
>
> Works fine from my linux box at home, but when I upload it to my shell at
> veritynet.net, can't seem to get it to connect to an irc server.

It may well be the case that your hosting provider has blocked various
IRC ports and/or traffic.

> It doesn't report any errors.
>
> Anyone have any idea how I might go about at least diagnosing the problem?
> Any suggestions might help.

Check your provider's usage policy and documentation.

Paul

Dropkick Punt

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Apr 11, 2007, 10:15:48 AM4/11/07
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:46:14 +0000, Paul Boddie wrote:

> On 11 Apr, 15:31, "Dropkick Punt" <notrealaddr...@all.com> wrote:
>> Hi. I've written a bot in python, using the irclib by Joel Rosdahl.
>>
>> Works fine from my linux box at home, but when I upload it to my shell at
>> veritynet.net, can't seem to get it to connect to an irc server.
>
> It may well be the case that your hosting provider has blocked various
> IRC ports and/or traffic.

Thanks but no. The shell is generally used for eggdrops, and port 6667 is
open. They even installed python specifically so I could run this bot.

Cousin Stanley

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Apr 12, 2007, 3:53:58 AM4/12/07
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Dropkick P ....

For a bit of inspiration you might take a look
at Supybot which is a Python-based irc bot ....

http://supybot.com

It's designed to run from your local machine
and connect to a remote irc server ....

I ran it from home 24/7 with virtually no problems at all
for several months from a very modest and old Compaq box
running Debian Gnu/Linux Sarge which connected via aDSL ....

A brief description from the Debian package manager ....

robust and user friendly Python IRC bot Supybot
is a robust (it doesn't crash), user friendly
(it's easy to configure) and programmer friendly
(plugins are *extremely* easy to write) Python IRC bot.
It aims to be an adequate replacement for most existing
IRC bots. It includes a very flexible and powerful ACL
system for controlling access to commands, as well as
more than 50 builtin plugins providing around 400 actual
commands.


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Stanley C. Kitching
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Phoenix, Arizona


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