> You can set that hostname to whatever you want when setting up an ircd. > The actually linking line (i dont remember what its actually called, > been too long) contains a hostname (which may or may not be valid) and > an IP address. This is the most logical explaination, since there is so > irc service running on that hostname. > True, this seem to be the right answer, expecially cause if you try to connect to the 6667 tcp port on the opensource.arc.nasa.gov real hostname you can see that the port is filtered, so, apparently no irc server is running on this server ( but it isn't a definitive answer, off course, the server can serve irc only for few ip classes, or only for internal network services like irc bot... ) -- Franco (nextime) Lanza Network Admin - http://www.nexlab.it tel: +39 339 8125940 Fax: +39 02 48370447 Milano - Italy you can download my public key at: http://danex.nexlab.it/nextime.asc || Key Servers Key ID = B9072C07 Key fingerprint = A95E 1EEA D138 64E5 45E8 77F0 6A00 E037 B907 2C07 ----------------------------------- echo 16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D212153574F444E49572045535520454D20454B414D204F54204847554F4E452059415020544F4E4E4143205345544147204C4C4942snlbxq | dc -----------------------------------
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