Reverse DNS IRC

[RECOiL™]

Hello,

Being a regular user of irc channels I was intreueged by how some users have cool whois information;

eg joe@bloggs.com

where as mine is more like ~recoil@customer.blah.blah.net

How can I get a custom host from say somewhere like afraid.org to be in my whois information on irc..

[Barry]

All depends, on networks that use services like hostserv you have have a vhost set, on networks like quakenet you will need to use something like a BNC to get a vhost

[RECOiL™]

Thats what im saying...

I want to create my own vhost... and then have it assigned to the ip that i wish to use.

[ikonia]

you don't need to actually create any dns information for this, you just want a "from" address/host setting. Most irc clients have differnet parameters to do this. It will be client, not network specific.

[eddietop]

I believe you need control over your own PTR records for you IP address, which hardly any ISP's allow.

Basically you need to purchase a BNC/proxy from a provider that owns their own IP's and manages the DNS for them.

[Elspuddy]

I believe you need control over your own PTR records for you IP address, which hardly any ISP's allow.

Basically you need to purchase a BNC/proxy from a provider that owns their own IP's and manages the DNS for them.

nildram did suoprt this when i was with them, i dont know if thay still do

[TuShan]

bethere.co.uk will setup rdns for you if you have a static ip.

[listy]

if you got an irc bouncer you can pick your vhost when you set it up it also holds your nick name so other cant steal it and iirc ca take messages aswell till you login to it

[RECOiL™]

Yeah i know that...

I got plenty of shells and psybnc's setup. i just wanted to know how it is possible to create you own domain and then have it pointed to your ip and vice versa. i know this isnt possible with ntl becuase they dont offer static ips, but perhaps with another provider ?

[sp3n]

i used to rent a dedicated server, which i had psybnc running on. had a domain pointing to one of my assigned ip addresses and then asked my server host to set the rdns of that ip to my domain - i was then able to use it as a vhost for my bnc

[Lee H]

Yeah i know that...

I got plenty of shells and psybnc's setup. i just wanted to know how it is possible to create you own domain and then have it pointed to your ip and vice versa. i know this isnt possible with ntl becuase they dont offer static ips, but perhaps with another provider ?

In a nutshell - Yes. However the availability of this depends on your ISP and whether they allow you to do this.

I did this with Nildram - changed all my IP range to refer to my old goodclan.co.uk domain.

I am in the process of getting Be to change my static IP from x-x-x-x.bethere.co.uk to my lovely laser chasing related domain as well.

So yes it can be done - it just depends on ISP really.