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Changing your VHOST on sinister's IRC nettwork - Pikami - 01-02-2019

[Introduction]
Sinister is moving it's primary communication from Discrap to IRC
This tutorial is going to show you how you can change your vhost

[Why should you change your vhost]
In traditional sense irc users used vhosts to hide their IP addresses, you can still see this in action on the freenode irc nettwork
[Image: 2S4q7eb.png]
^ This is a user without a vhost, anyone can see his IP address (This may or may not be my real IP, be gentle)
[Image: f81WWum.png]
^ This is a user that has their vhost set to `unaffiliated/pikami`, in this case nobody but the network operators can see their IP address

On Sinister's network users won't have this problem because the server masks user's IP addresses, example:
[Image: QrdOOLQ.png]

[So why are we doing this again?]
To keep the traditions and because vhosts look awesome, look at this:
[Image: R62qk92.png]
^ This is so hot!

[Preconditions]
Your IRC nick must be registered with NickServ

[Choosing a vhost]
Just pick something that you like but remember it must have a dot in it.
Oh and there's this quote from Oni:
Quote:If someone refers to other sites, is racist, or refers to kiddy activity they'll be banned.
Could give a shit if they mimic government orgs.
I'd just say "follow site rules". We're pretty reasonable. There's a pretty thick line between being funny, and being a dick.

[The process]
  • {Requesting a vhost}
    You can request a vhost by using this command
    Code:
    /msg HostServ REQUEST some.vhost
  • {Wait for your vhost to be approved}
    The vhost request must be manually approved by an operator (a.k.a. Oni)
  • {Enable the new vhost}
    After your vhost gets approved you can enable it by typing:
    Code:
    /msg HostServ ON
    After this your vhost will automatically apply after identifying with NickServ

[Final notes]
Vhosts are a nice way to express yourself and get rid of that awful looking `F8F8606E.D106C848.26B0859.IP` or `Clk-75D65E7B.irccloud.com` and replace with something sexy like `pikami.org` (please don't use my domains as your vhosts, thankyou)

[Source links]
https://sonichu.com/cwcki/IRC:Vhost

RE: Changing your VHOST on sinister's IRC nettwork - Cr3aTor - 01-03-2019

Great initiative, since we're moving to IRC and maybe not all of us are familiar with it.