IP to name

Okilian · Post by **Okilian** » 2004-08-25 21:55

Ok, I know how to set up a hub with an IP, but since I am at a college and I would like to keep a semi low profile, I know there are hubs out there that don't show anything but a name. What way is there to do that? Hopefully, if there is, it's free. That would help someone poor like me.

Xan1977 · Post by **Xan1977** » 2004-08-25 22:04

A name... a DNS? Such as yourhub.dyndns.org? Yes, www.no-ip.com or www.dyndns.org will do that for free.

Of course, a simple ping will reveal your IP address. There is 0 level of security there

A real option for laying low is to set your hub software to not register to the public hublists and only give the address out to people you know.

Okilian · Post by **Okilian** » 2004-08-25 22:06

I knew a hub, let's just call the name....Joseph

instead of www.joseph-ispn.com, it was...Joseph to get his hub.

When u logged on it would show like Joseph (Joseph)

Is that possible to do with anything?

Here is what it looked like with the person's hub (it did exist, I just changed it for privacy)

PseudonympH · Post by **PseudonympH** » 2004-08-25 22:23

Can be done by adding an entry to your hosts file, but that would need to be done on every person's machine.

TheNOP · Post by **TheNOP** » 2004-08-25 22:28

Okilian wrote:I knew a hub, let's just call the name....Joseph

instead of www.joseph-ispn.com, it was...Joseph to get his hub.

When u logged on it would show like Joseph (Joseph)

Is that possible to do with anything?

in DC++ title bar also ?
i think /fav use what the hub is sending with $HubName <NEW TOPIC STRING>|
then what your looking for is a feature call "change topic", if your hub is scripts able.
the script should send $HubName <NEW TOPIC STRING>| to all clients when they log.
$HubName is already sent with the title you see in DC++, this would change it to what you want.
i think yhub also have an option to change what the hub send.

Okilian · Post by **Okilian** » 2004-08-26 06:30

so would a person then be able to find my hub just by puttin in the name?

Todi · Post by **Todi** » 2004-08-26 06:41

No. They would still need an adress to connect to it.

Okilian · Post by **Okilian** » 2004-08-26 08:16

hmm weird. I didn't need to actually use the ip to get to it, i just typed in the name.

Todi · Post by **Todi** » 2004-08-26 08:30

You can use either an IP number or a DNS adress to connect to. DNS = myhub.com or myhub.no-ip.com.

Post by **GargoyleMT** » 2004-08-26 12:10

Okilian wrote:I knew a hub, let's just call the name....Joseph

instead of www.joseph-ispn.com, it was...Joseph to get his hub.

When u logged on it would show like Joseph (Joseph)

Only for users who have the same set of suffixes as you in their DNS resolution setup. Depending on your setup, your computer or resolver will try to look up Joseph, then Joseph.ISP.NET (or Joseph.WORK.COM).

What you want isn't possible. Even if it were, you would only be fooling non-computer savvy users, not anyone who you might have a genuine reason to be fearful of.