IRC Connection Hosts

[Josh]

Hello,

As it stands, whenever a user connects to the local IRC server (also
running Orbited), the clients show up as connecting from localhost. Is
there a way to force it to use their real IP address instead? Orbited
is aware of their real IP, so I'm thinking it has to be possible to
somehow spoof it (unless there is an option somewhere I am
overlooking).

Thanks!

[Niklas B]

Orbited is not allowed to Spoof the IP, however the IRC server is.
Make sure your IRC server has support for CGI:IRC (Unreal does this,
Inspircd IRCd can do it, more with modules). That allows for a certain
IP (orbiteds) to supply the clients IP via different techniques (such
as sending it as a password) and the IRC then sets it as the real
one.

The easy and ugly solution is to hack the Orbited core, but as you
probably figures, that's not really a good idea (however I must admit,
that's the way I'm doing it right now).

More information on
http://groups.google.com/group/orbited-users/browse_thread/thread/69e07f17058aa591/97a217c170ab6169?lnk=gst&q=orbited+internals#97a217c170ab6169

As Joboc is so rightly pointing out, a better solution would be to
create a simple proxy server as a stand in between. When I have the
time I guess I'll do it.

Regards,
Niklas