Topic: Those cool address thingos in mirc
started by: Neophyre
Posted by Neophyre on Jan. 02 2002,08:46
On irc i've noticed a few people with really cool address, such as im@high.mother.Fucker, etc..now i'm told this has to be done with a shell account or some shit, but you have to pay.
Now here's my problem. I want one.
explains away. Money is an object.
Edit: i'm@s.high.as.a.kite.motha.fukka!
Posted by kornalldaway on Jan. 02 2002,15:58
i might be very wrong on this one but i think those things are done with BNCs. u can try searching google for BNC to get some info and perhaps find someone offering some accounts.
Posted by Spydir on Jan. 02 2002,19:40
it can be done as a ircop, or using a vhost on a shell provider. Most the popular/good shell hosts have them. By using a vhost, you can get it using a BNC, bot, or your basic irc client, you just have to configure them to. Look around on the net for a shell provider, I recommend www.egghelp.org's list, and then figure out how much you want to play. I've seen some for as little as 5 bucks a month. I'd get a few of these, I just don't like paying monthly because that usually requires a credit card, which I don't have 
edit: as for the ircop stuff... you're gonna have to figure out how you're gonna be an ircop, and I've never ircop'ed on any of the popular networks so I can't really tell you.
Posted by incubus on Jan. 02 2002,23:11
I distinctly remember cr0bar having the vhost HI.IM.A.GIANT-ASSHOLE.NET or something like that lol
Posted by uncreative on Jan. 03 2002,03:53
Yes, you can set it up through a shell or BNC, but those usually cost money. You could register a domain (which also costs money) and look into if your isp offers reverse domain resolution that would get you what you want.
Posted by incubus on Jan. 03 2002,04:25
| Quote (uncreative @ Jan. 03 2002,03:53) |
| Yes, you can set it up through a shell or BNC, but those usually cost money. You could register a domain (which also costs money) and look into if your isp offers reverse domain resolution that would get you what you want. |
Buying a domain is actually a lot easier than getting reverse dns delegation. Basically forward DNS (like typing www.detonate.net) into a browser is easy, or making a hostname point to an IP. The reverse dns is regulated at places like the IANA in america or RIPE in europe.
They hold a table of netblocks and the mapped reverse addresses - you see, when you buy a hostname you don't buy an IP <-- important. An IP can only have one reverse dns record associated with it - IP addresses are a very contended commodity these days and you're not likely to get rdns resolution to your spec unless you're very friendly with your ISP.
RIPE, IANA etc., don't like handing out IPs - there's only so many to go around and there aren't many left. Also people are wasteful with them, people write bad net-code into software so it won't work without a public IP, and way back when IPs were not contended, they were handed out like candy (Ford motor company got a class A IP block! wtf) ... that's 254*254*254 IP addresses...
Any network only needs 1 IP address (4 if subnetting is used) UNLESS it needs to run servers ... and even port forwarding can take care of the need for that if done correctly, and if the software at the other end is written properly.
Summary: Until IPv6 is adopted properly, everyone should think twice before wanting their own rdns
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That is all.
Posted by veistran on Jan. 05 2002,03:37
That is pretty fucked, wtf does ford need a class A for?