On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 07:11:29PM +0930, Rob Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Just a quick question before I think of sending this to bugs@.
>
> Just playing on IRC and I am identified as '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Maybe it
> because I dont understand the workings of identd but it surely answered that
> I am user65, but why doesnt it tell my hostname?
Rob,
Ident's got nothing to do with hostnames at all. What an IRC server
usually does is sees your address in the connection, resolves that to
a hostname, and then resolves that back to an address. If any fail or
don't match, you appear with the address, not the hostname. All of
that's from the perspective of the IRC server.
-Rich
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