MaxSendQ Limit and ChanServ Floods

LIQUID_NiTrO · none Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 34

OK, so I got Anope for Windows and figured out how to use it in not too long. Registered my nicks and channels, had all my opers register, blah blah blah.

Worked great for a while.

But after about 3 days, it started to exceed the MaxSendQ Limit and the server automatically started SQUIT'ing services.

After puttering with IRCd config and increasing the server MaxSendQ limit, services still exceeded them, always by 2, 7, or 30.

After a while of doing this, services connects and immediatly ChanServ starts flooding me with "This channel has been registered with ChanServ" messages. I can't get it to stop.
I tried /killing ChanServ but it causes a clash with the other services and it ends up connecting again and worsens the flood (now the server is send me messages about Q:Line clashes and stuff).

Also, I've noticed that since this has started happening, it likes to reset the topic a lot. Not nearly as much is it likes flooding me with notices, but it does it some:

TroyBoy · none Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 12

LOL we meet again LIQUID_NiTrO

Im running unreal 3.2 and Anope 1.7.3 on linux (same box).
I had the same flooding/MaxSendQ problem today.
Except it was happening after I did a /msg botserv assign

Ashen · Idler Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Posts: 284

I must remind you, that there is NO official version of anope for windows, and that what you are running is a port of anope to windows which is in no way whatsoever supported by the official anope team.
If you want to run anope, I highly, highly suggest you ditch windows and run it on a *nix machine as it is intended to be run on.

With regard to your problem, I would suggest running anope in -nofork and -debug modes, and watching the output carefully to find out what it is trying to do and why. Then stop it trying to do that.

Beyond that, I'm not sure what is going on.... 1.7.3 is a development version (the most recent
development version, I think) of the development stream of anope. If you're running a windows
port of that, you seem to be begging for bugs.

There is one suggestion I would make, however, and that is to make sure you don't tell services
to send PRIVMSGs instead of NOTICEs. The reason for this is that sending privmsgs to
channel residents upon their joining an empty channel can cause a privmsg'ed reply from bots,
and thus cause an endless cycle of bots privmsging each other back and forth which results
in a flood.

I'd suggest you follow the debug instructions above, report this to anope, and
if stability is crucial to you, do not run dev versions (in fact, most developers reccomend
that dev versions should not be run on any production system).
Sorry I can't be more specific, but really, sometimes the best thing you can do is to use
*nix, with a stable version of the software and file detailed bug reports if bugs occur.

-Ashen

TroyBoy · none Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 12

Well from a previous topic, LIQUID_NiTrO said he was using anope-1.5.10-r5.
Im using 1.7.3 on Linux.
Hes using Windows, and im using Linux.
Hes using a stable release, and im apparently not (I didnt know 1.7.3 was a dev release ;( )

The common link being that we both have the exact same problem.
So I would imagine that its a setting that could be causing it - like you suggested, it could be PRIVMSGs instead of NOTICEs.

Do you know how to tell services to send notices instead of privmsgs?

Im running my irc in prod now.
Since this problem crashes services, I wont be playing around with this any further. So I guess i've lost the use of BotServ until this problem is resolved by someone else ;(

uchat · Idler Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 335

TroyBoy · none Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 12

#UsePrivmsg

Its commented out by default. So I guess its only sending as a notice.
So this shouldnt be an issue.

I was running 1.6.2 but had problems, so I installed 1.7.3.
LIQUID NiTrO is running an older/stable version than I am, and hes still having the same problem. So I wont be downgrading from 1.7.3.

ozafy · Guest

i have the exact same problem.

i run anope 1.6.2 and unreal 3.2 on debian, all stabel releases.

as long as u don't add a bot to a channel nothing happens, as soon as i add the bot, chanserv and botserv go in conflict.

it keeps opping, deoping, dehalfopping the bot, over and over. and obviously then maxqsends itself off.

i posted this over at the anope forum, they suggested it was the ulines, but i don't see any problem with them :/

and the anope server is now down for me so i can't check back.

this problem makes botserv totally useless :/

thx in advance

ozafy · Guest

soz for dubble post, but i just found my original message in the google cache, thought it may be of use, it's the anope debug stuff

basicly it keeps doing this:

[Jun 12 14:56:41.909037 2004] debug: Sent: :O MODE #feds +o O
[Jun 12 14:56:41.909138 2004] channel: MODE #feds -h for nonexistent user O
[Jun 12 14:56:41.909323 2004] debug: Received: :irc.oberjaeger.net MODE #feds &-o O 1087038939

O being my bot.

thx in advance

uchat · Idler Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 335

ozafy · Guest

so it is a config problem :/

any idea what so ever what might cause it?

i had it working properly on hybrid before, but switched to unreal to be able to use hostserv, but now i lost botserv :/

i have no idea what causes it and becoming rather desperate :p

uchat · Idler Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 335

The most probable cause is incorrect U:Lines ... however if chanserv can affectively akill, set channel modes and set JUPEs without crashing ... then the U:Line is correct.

I find it odd that my works and 2 others don't and the only difference thus far is the OS (which shouldn't have any bearing in tthe issue.)

Now, if the m_svsnick.so module was deleted then the SVSNICK command wouln't work but that won't cause ChanServ and BotServ to fight. Especially since they use the same db and process to authenticate a user. Meaning that they, in theory, should AWAYS agree.

ozafy · Guest

yeah, all other services work great. the svsnick thing doesn't work either, tried it once for the fun, didn't work, and cba to find out why, i don't see it's use anyway.

botserv does also work, i can create a bot without a problem, it's the seccond i add it to a channel they start doing there loopthing, the odd thing is, if i'm not mistaken it's the server itself, and not services, deoping the bot, so i think it's actually the server and services fighting, which would indicate a uline problem. But chanserv/operserv can do all there things without problems :/

just in case:
unrealircd.conf:
ulines {
services.oberjaeger.net;
};

services.conf:
ServerName "services.oberjaeger.net"
ServiceUser "services@oberjaeger.net"

i really have no clue what causes it :/

uchat · Idler Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 335

another possibility is that secureops is on and ChanServ don't see your BotServ bot on the xop list.

UPDATE: I just helped fix oberjaeger.net .. secureops was on ... secureops has to be off for a BotServ bot to populate the channel since it is an unregistered nick and trying to get ChanOps.

ozafy · Guest

thx alot for the help m8 Smile

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