How to solve this problem?

LinkinPark · Post by **LinkinPark** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 2:38 am

[LP@shell]$ ./eggdrop -m eggdrop.conf

Eggdrop v1.6.21 (C) 1997 Robey Pointer (C) 2011 Eggheads
[09:34:16] --- Loading eggdrop v1.6.21 (Wed Dec 7 2011)
[09:34:16] * Hostname self-lookup failed. Please set 'my-ip' in the config file.

Thanks

Post by **nml375** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:58 am

As the error suggests, your eggdrop is unable to figure which host IP to use for outgoing connections as well as listening sockets. The solution is to properly set the "my-ip" setting in your config-file as suggested.