"Who.knows.com" ??? how?

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07-13-2007, 10:31 PM
slick99

"Who.knows.com" ??? how?

How did this guy make his ip address show up as...
"who.knows.com"

Thats pretty neat. hides ur ip. anyone know how?

http://i16.tinypic.com/63b653m.jpg
07-13-2007, 10:33 PM
hungdob

Re: "Who.knows.com" ??? how?

:)
07-13-2007, 10:41 PM
Daniel

Re: "Who.knows.com" ??? how?

Try google for reverse dns if you want to know how to set something like that up.
07-13-2007, 11:08 PM
optimus_prime

Re: "Who.knows.com" ??? how?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daniel

Try google for reverse dns if you want to know how to set something like that up.

maybe you made a mistake reverse dns is something else :)

@slick99
if you saw that on irc you should probably google for irc bouncer or irc vhost :D
07-13-2007, 11:19 PM
xmz

Re: "Who.knows.com" ??? how?

Quote:

Originally Posted by optimus_prime

Quote:

Originally Posted by Daniel

Try google for reverse dns if you want to know how to set something like that up.

maybe you made a mistake reverse dns is something else :)

@slick99
if you saw that on irc you should probably google for irc bouncer or irc vhost :D

It is a reverse DNS.
07-13-2007, 11:26 PM
Daniel

Re: "Who.knows.com" ??? how?

Actually, I meant what I said, optimus. A reverse DNS lookup is the process of fetching any kind of canonical hostname from a DNS server if all you presently have is an IP address.
07-13-2007, 11:43 PM
optimus_prime

Re: "Who.knows.com" ??? how?

well i knew you did, i just wanted to be polite :D

computers talk in ip addresses, not human readable names. so they talk "208.101.40.56" instead "filesharingtalk.com". because it's hard to remember dns lookup is used to turn filesharingtalk.com into numbers. when numbers need to be turned back to name, guess what's used - reverse dns lookup. all this happens between you and your hosts dns server and dns server up the line.

so you see, it absolutely has nothing to do with spoofing hostnames on irc.
07-13-2007, 11:55 PM
sperm

Re: "Who.knows.com" ??? how?

Quote:

Originally Posted by slick99

Thats pretty neat. hides ur ip. anyone know how?

http://i16.tinypic.com/63b653m.jpg

but if you untick the resolve ips in utorrent, it shows the true ip rather than spoof hostname :whistling

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/8303/fakeso1.jpg
07-14-2007, 03:45 AM
redcorvette

Re: "Who.knows.com" ??? how?

i would want to know too...just curious....;)
07-14-2007, 04:15 AM
eLucid

Re: "Who.knows.com" ??? how?

Quote:

Originally Posted by optimus_prime

so you see, it absolutely has nothing to do with spoofing hostnames on irc.

How did irc come up? I thought he was asking about a bittorrent client.
07-14-2007, 10:33 AM
optimus_prime

Re: "Who.knows.com" ??? how?

Quote:

Originally Posted by eLucid

How did irc come up? I thought he was asking about a bittorrent client.

probably because original poster removed image than returned it back, and my browser didn't update so what i was speaking was based on guessing :)

that means i owe daniel an apology for he is indeed right. as there is no way of spoofing your address to p2p client, hostnames they resolve to can only be changed by manipulating dns servers yourself or paying for reverse dns service at some dns provider like dyndns. so yeah, it has to do with reverse dns :)