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What is IRC? It stands for internet relay chat, and despite being developed in 1988, it is still a very useful means of low-bandwidth communication, serving hundreds of thousands of users daily across the world. We have created our own IRC Server at irc.sylnt.us, port 6667. Won't you join us?
"Some have asked why we run our own servers instead of using a public one such as freenode.net. We did this to have control of the TOS, copyright, DMCA, and other legal issues. I like freenode (and their TOS) a lot, but we're building a community and we should make our own choices.
Landon, our overlord of IRC, set this up with a lot of help from his team. He also set us up a link-shortener sylnt.us domain for the Twitter account: that rocks! So send him some love if you see him on IRC - he's doing a bang-up job!
Speaking of Twitter, Bender, our IRC bot, posts the headlines to our Twitter account, so feel free to follow us there."
(Score: 5, Informative) by xlefay on Monday February 24 2014, @04:44AM
Agreed, what you're asking is not ridiculous at all and I _will_ look into the matter more closely, as it stands Charybdis masquerades the first part of your hostname/ip but not the entire thing which makes sense from one perspective.
Generally, to cloak one segment is enough in case it isn't, you can apply for a cloak, however I do understand your point. I'll post my findings _and_ possibly my fix in the journal when I've looked more into it (just peaked earlier). I'll link back here. Also, feel free to PM me on IRC to get an update.
Hope this is more satisfying.
~ xlefay.