phunni Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 I have just noticed that anyone looking at my info on IRC can see my server's ip address. Is there any way of changing or restricting this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronin Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 I assume you mean they can see name@whatever.the.address.is? Or do you mean the output of a /dns nick? In either case if I understand correctly the only way I know of is to run something called a vhost, usually off a shell company. That way when they do a /whois or /dns they get the vhosts information and not yours. In any case having the IP show up isn't much of a problem. Unless of course you've ticked someone off who knows what they're doing. ;-) In which case even the vhost won't help much, they'll just go after that and still knock you off the network. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted April 9, 2003 Report Share Posted April 9, 2003 I'm still beginner-interlmediate user of shorewall, but I've seen a whois-port in /etc/services.. I've you block this one, what information cannot be retrieved, or has this any use(suppose that this port has a use...) Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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