I think that's not how IRC does it.. What IRC hackers do is scan ports like 23, 3128 etc which is open and they relay through it and appear as that machine rather than themselves.. Some IRC server now check your ports when you connect on IRC for these ports and if they are open it'll lot allow you to connect to the IRC server..
I've seen this happen. thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L " IIRC the way some providers are set up you can steal the IP addresses of machines on the same subnet as you if you have the right tools(software). " -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
