Forums Connection Issues Just wondering

Is it possible to make mirc just use my ip and not my normal host mask, I noticed this happens once and awhile and Id prefer it to work off of the ip

No, that happens when the "host name" dont resolve to your IP-address, so you cant do it like that all the time.. if you want another host or somthing, then you need a bouncer or somthing like it..

Bouncers are illegal tho arent they?

No they are not. But, you do have to pay to use them.

Some nets dont like bouncer for the simple reason that the bouncer can keep you alive.. and that means allot of idle time, so the dont like them cos of this.. if you read the motd on irc-net they explain it there.. "Excessive idling may result in that your client is thrown off from the server" but the reason ppl using bouncers is to hide there hosts.. so if they get atacked by somone, then they arent the target its the computer having the bouncer on it that gets the atacks..

So a bouncer is basically a legal Proxy then?

Yes you can call it that.. but a bouncer arent that easy to get, you can find a proxy by scanning a channel.. and they arent password protected, but a bouncer are password protected "most of them", and often more security fetures too, but i wont go in to that here

Bouncers arn't illegal. What they are is a pain in the backside (when used with a vhost) if the use of them is for the purpose of ban evasion because you can simply log out, change the vhost and then log back in again. Some networks, including mine do not allow them for that reason.

Your IP or Hostname, whatever aplies at the time, is provided by and assigned by your ISP, there is no normal subscriber based control over this. ISPs quite often have many IP ranges that they assign hostnames to, while some if their IP ranges will not resolve.

A bouncer is more an "IRC proxy". The term proxy doesn't have to just mean IRC, for example there are HTTP proxies. Also a regular SOCKS proxy is not itself illegal. The illegal part is when you use it without the owner's permission. Since you're paying for a bouncer, you obviously have the owner's permission to use it, so it is 100% ok.