Date: Thu, 5 Sep 2002 11:37:56 -0400 From: Bob Wright <bwrig@zdgt.com> To: Redmond Militante <r-militante@northwestern.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, 'Rob O'Donnell' <robert@aphnet.co.uk> Subject: RE: Forging identd while chatting in IRC channel Message-ID: <F28DF05657ADD211B6140008C73354C152EAAC@ZELTD1>
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You may also want to consult some of the different IRC version. Enterthegame network I believe blocks the last oclet of an ip from public view. Other networks offer free Vhosts (ex. Bob@bob.loves.BSD.com). Really the problem has already been solved, the answer just needs to be used ;) Vhosts are the most logical answer to protecting your IP on IRC if your not the one controlling the network. Or you could use a free isp to chat on irc with.. Te-hehe. Sorry had to. I dont know the IRCD versions which these servers are using. Hope this helps. > ---------- > From: Rob O'Donnell > Sent: Thursday, September 5, 2002 11:29 AM > To: Redmond Militante; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Forging identd while chatting in IRC channel > > > At 09:48 05/09/2002 -0500, Redmond Militante wrote: > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >hi > > > >this looks cool > > > >is there any way to get it forge a hostname, versus a username > >i tried the -s option, didn't seem to work. -m option works fine > > > > > >thanks > > > >redmond > > > >On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 07:27:53PM -0700, Adam Weinberger expatiated with > > >great perspicuity: > > > security/liedentd > > > > > > -Adam > > > > > > Since the IRC server needs to know a real IP address in order to talk to > you, you'll > never be able to hide completely. AFAIK most servers echo the RDNS for > address you > connected from. If you have access to the reverse-DNS for your IP, then > you could > manipulate this; put something more to your taste in there, but unless you > > have your > own IP range, and are not merely a user of some random ISP, you are > unlikely > to be able to do this. > > In any case, a lot of servers (irc & ftp particularly) will also check > your > forward-DNS > matches the reverse-DNS and block if it doesn't, so you can end up > shooting > yourself > in the foot anyway, if you try and hide by putting the name of someone > else in your > RDNS. > > Basically, if you don't want someone to know where you're connecting from, > > don't > connect to them. > > You could try using one of the publicly accessible (some accidentally so) > proxy > servers, but then you get into all sorts of issues with DCC. > > (If anybody knows how to set mIRC on a xp box up to work through a FreeBSD > router running ppp's NAT + socks5 proxy server such that DCC works > perfectly in > both directions, I'd love to know!) > > HTH > > Rob. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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