Forums Connection Issues Displaying real name

Hi

I've recently moved to another country, and I've noticed that when first arriving and connecting to IRC from a hotel on my laptop, and now in my own apartment, my real name is being displayed as my ident. I have not used my name anywhere in the settings and even with blanking them out or putting something else in there, it keeps going back to that. It appears mIRC is finding my real name from the name of my computer (which is my real name).
Anyone have any ideas on how to resolve this so I can put the ident I want in there?

Thanks in advance.

p.s. the reason I mention moving to another country is that perhaps the ISP's here is forcing a connection to IRC using this info? just a theory...

Either your ISP or your network admin is responding to ident
requests with your real name. You could ask them if it could
respond with your username instead for security purposes. It
would be a reasonable request imo.

thanks Rock for that...will give it a go.

Is your real name in the email address you entered into mIRC's settings? mIRC has an option to use the first part of your email as your ident.

-genius_at_work

hi - no...havn't used my name anywhere in the program...

You say that you had the same problem in the hotel and in your apartment. That suggests to me that the source of the problem is your laptop (and not the ISP). If you try searching the mirc.ini file for your name, you may find that it somehow got in there. If it isn't in mirc.ini, you may have an ident server replying with your name (somewhere).

-genius_at_work

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That suggests to me that the source of the problem is your laptop (and not the ISP).

He could be using the same isp or wap that he was using
at the hotel. One way to tell would be to close port 113
at his software firewall and if it stops then it's on the
laptop. If not then close 113 on the network if it exists.
If neithor of those stop it there's only one more point
that would respond and also have his real name info, isp.