[IRCServices] tri-ircd5 and ircservices-5.0.14

[Fireman]

Hey Finny,

How's it hangin ?

Mr. Church,

I tried the hostname change and it fixed it.  Considering it was giving me a
password error, I would have never dreamed it was an IP problem.  Thanks to
all for the help.

Ken

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Church" <achurch at achurch.org>
To: <ircservices at ircservices.za.net>
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] tri-ircd5 and ircservices-5.0.14


>      Combined reply:
>
> >> I have encrypted the password on the server side, put the plain text
> >> password into the services config file.  Doesn't work.
>
>      This is the way it should be (assuming you compiled your ircd with
> encrypted passwords)--Services has to have the password in plaintext.
>
>      One possibility that springs to mind is that the OS you're using is
> rewriting IP addresses behind your back.  I know that at least Linux seems
> to do this under some circumstances, and it causes me no end of grief.
Try
> setting the hostnames in the ircd and Services config files to 127.0.0.1
> and see if that works.
>
> >all I can think of doing is running ircservices on the highest debug
level
> >to see what data is being sent over the connection. Wipe your log file,
> >start services once and see if the log file contains any useful info...
>
>      Just for the record, debug level 1 is sufficient to get
>
> >If you can't see anything, send a copy of the logfile to me
> >(griever at t2n.org)
> >(I'm not sure if you're supposed to send it to the list or not) and I'll
> >attempt to decipher it.
>
>      In general, entire log files shouldn't be sent to the list (snippets
> like the one in the original post are fine), because they (1) take up
> people's inbox space, (2) take up bandwidth on the list server machine,
> and (3) might contain passwords and other sensitive information.  There is
> in any case, or at least was in the past, a 40kB limit on post size as
> well.
>
>   --Andrew Church
>     achurch at achurch.org
>     http://achurch.org/
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