How does hostname spoofing/customization work on IRC networks?
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Mar 15, 202653223 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I've used IRC for a long time and I've seen people with really unique hostnames. I'm wondering how they are able to have those? My theory is that one sets up a server as part of the efnet/freenode network and somehow masks his real identity behind that custom server. Could someone explain layman's …
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There are two types of "vhosts": real and fake. Real vhosts are usually called "reverse DNS" (also called rDNS)—it's basically a DNS record for your IP address, pointing to some domain name with a record, which is looked up by the server upon connec…
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