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    Do any IRC clients show when you've been whois'd?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by nemt, Nov 15, 2010.

  1. nemt

    nemt Notebook Deity

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    and by whom?
     
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    No. A whois query does not involve your IRC client at all.

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Nov 15, 2010
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    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    I'm sure that some do. Someone got annoyed with me recently about that.
     
    namaiki, Nov 15, 2010
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    How should this work? :confused:
    Imagine, you'd make me upset for some reason, and I am able to see your IP. To get the whois information behind your IP, either I run a whois client on my PC or I am using a web based whois service. The whois client is communicating with the whois servers in question and finally displaying the results.
    On that communication chain, the the other person is not involved at all.

    EDIT: there seems to be some internal form of whois in IRC. This is something else than the whois I was thinking of.

    Michael
     
    michael_recycled, Nov 15, 2010
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  5. namaiki

    namaiki "basically rocks" Super Moderator

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    Hmm.. perhaps it was because I poked other things on that user, like: ping, version, time, user-info.
     
    namaiki, Nov 15, 2010
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    KLF NBR Super Modernator Super Moderator

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    I'm pretty sure it needs support from server, I've used a custom server where one of the OP's always woke up when I did /wii on her :D
     
    KLF, Nov 15, 2010
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