egghelp/eggheads community Discussion of eggdrop bots, shell accounts and tcl scripts. 2002-12-10T06:09:04-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/app.php/feed/topic/3212 2002-12-10T06:09:04-04:00 2002-12-10T06:09:04-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=14152#p14152 <![CDATA[Hostname self-lookup failed.]]>
You need access to the machine/node that the hostname resolves to (in this case, there is no IP so no node). As well as this, the IP this hostname resolves to, must also resolve back to the hostname.

EG
host newsup29.free-online.co.uk
newsup29.free-online.co.uk has address 212.159.100.245

host 212.159.100.245
245.100.159.212.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer newsup29.free-online.co.uk.
Unless you can acheive this, which you may well have to pay your ISP or shell provider for, and not all provider supply this, then it will not work.

Alternativly, simply set the value of my-ip, and ignore the my-host setting.

Statistics: Posted by ppslim — Tue Dec 10, 2002 6:09 am

]]> 2002-12-10T05:24:05-04:00 2002-12-10T05:24:05-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=14149#p14149 <![CDATA[Hostname self-lookup failed.]]>
* Looking up spam.ed.shawcable.net
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* Unable to resolve spam.ed.shawcable.net
Perhaps this host simply doesn't resolve to any numerical ip.
Maybe that's why the DNS lookup failed.
Check it out, I hope it helps.

z_one

Statistics: Posted by z_one — Tue Dec 10, 2002 5:24 am

]]> 2002-12-09T21:18:55-04:00 2002-12-09T21:18:55-04:00 https://forum.eggheads.org/viewtopic.php?p=14144#p14144 <![CDATA[Hostname self-lookup failed.]]> [06:19] --- Loading eggdrop v1.4.4 (Mon Dec 9 2002)
[06:19] * Hostname self-lookup failed.
[06:19] Attempt to kill un-allocated socket 0 !!

how would i go about fixing this?

ive tried....

hostname spam.ed.shawcable.net

can anyone help?

Statistics: Posted by Guest — Mon Dec 09, 2002 9:18 pm

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