RE: anonymous irc connection via shell?

From: Security (security_at_platinum-hosting.net)
Date: 02/28/05

  • Next message: Michael LaSalvia: "RE: anonymous irc connection via shell?" 
    To: "'Dan Wozniak'" <dwozniak@exs.esb.com>, <security-basics@securityfocus.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:22:20 -0600

    Depends,

    Some use "bouncers" which bounce the connection off of shell servers.
    Others might use the built in IRC servers masking system, be it a
    userhost(users.irc.server.name.com) or masking(Prefix(Usually a "shortname
    for the network")-[0-9A-F](Repeasted several times) which can give a host,
    in my case, looking like WHT-BD9588AE.wp.shawcable.net. To enable the
    masking on the server I am on, it is "/mode <username> +x"

    Dan

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Dan Wozniak [mailto:dwozniak@exs.esb.com]
    Sent: Friday, February 25, 2005 4:20 PM
    To: security-basics@securityfocus.com
    Subject: anonymous irc connection via shell?

    I've been using IRC for a year or so and i've noticed certain users have
    "masked" or completely removed their sensitive host information such as
    the ip and hostname. Or else they're using an anonymous shell account
    (proxy?). My question is how do they do this?

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