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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: 1, Flamebait) by pk on Monday February 24 2014, @03:15AM
Maybe you should stick to USENET. You know the admins can see your IP address on this site... ;)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @03:37AM
Methinks you are trolling. If you read my comments closely, you won't see me specifically requesting a way to be totally anonymous. I.e. my intent was to use my SN username, but merely have my IP address not (even partially) broadcast publicly. Also, I may just be ignorant of a more educated defense of the issue that the freenode admins might give. I'm not claiming to be a professional network security expert like you are on your homepage- darkcalf.com-
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Information security is a very serious business. With sites like Wikileaks divulging secrets, and...
We also provide Social Management options that allow you to build and define your online image just by giving us basic guidelines on what you would like to see posted. Essentially we shine the spotlight and generate social media trafic..."
Wow. Just Wow. What a sockpuppet. And why am I not surprised that your troll of a response had nothing to do with treating information security as a very serious business.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 24 2014, @04:19AM
Someone call the BOFH, he broke rule #1.
(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.
(Score: 1) by pk on Sunday March 09 2014, @06:01AM
Sez Anonymous Coward with stinging, stinging words. IRC isn't for the feint of heart, even with your IP address cloaked. Plus, if you're that concerned about people seeing your IP address on IRC, I would suggest a VPN anyway. You shouldn't be depending on someone else's application configuration for your defense, and that's what I was mocking you for.