egghelp/eggheads community Discussion of eggdrop bots, shell accounts and tcl scripts. 2011-09-16T12:48:01-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/app.php/feed/topic/18641 2011-09-16T12:48:01-04:00 2011-09-16T12:48:01-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=97742#p97742 <![CDATA[shell misconfiguration for host lookup]]> http://www.egghelp.org/faq.htm#114
When I try to start my bot I get the error Hostname self-lookup failed or Couldn't assign the requested IP. How do I fix this?

This means the bot isn't able to resolve its own hostname on the shell (possibly due to a server misconfiguration). Try setting the my-hostname and my-ip settings in your bot's config file to the correct hostname and IP of your shell (e.g. set my-hostname "shell1.niceshells.net" and set my-ip "555.43.254.133"). Alternatively, try using set my-hostname "localhost" and set my-ip "127.0.0.1" exactly as shown.
As it's my own shell....

How can I fix it?

(Debian Linux Lenny)

Statistics: Posted by desired — Fri Sep 16, 2011 12:48 pm

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