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View Full Version : eggdrop and ircd ???


Ironlung
02-23-2001, 04:46 AM
I have saw a command for eggdrop and ircd. Can anyone tell me what this guys is doing. Is eggdrop a bot of some sort?

acetate
02-23-2001, 05:42 AM
yes, eggdrop is an irc bot..

akashik
02-23-2001, 06:22 AM
yep.

It sits on your server and keeps an IRC channel open and mods it while the real mods are away. There's been a lot of stories of people hacking it to shut it down (or just DOS attacking it), so they can take over a channel.

I hear Egg Drop is the safest of them all, but it's something your retail customers may feel threatened by. Just one of the problems of a shell account :)

Greg Moore

Cael
02-23-2001, 10:27 AM
You should beware of any clan war that your clients might be involving in. Your server might be DoS because of that...

allan
02-23-2001, 12:58 PM
What Donovan said...you may be opening yourself to all sorts of trouble by allowing these types of bots.