/whois online feature now Online

zeke · Idler Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 312

i can see networks banning the bot for randomly connecting like that.....very...very...quickly....

Scoobs8 · none Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 1

The network I am ircop on banned your bot. I just have a stupid question....what client do your bots use? Cuz I am curious if it is something with a good version reply that doesn't get banned to often. Also....I love the /whois, but am I wrong or did it use to do a lot more networks when it was under IRC User Search? What happened? Sad

zeke · Idler Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 312

last i knew it was a php(?) bot written from scratch by Jason, last time I got a version reply out of one it was something like "SearchIRC Indexing Bot"

JohnB · Posted: Nov 10, 2004 1:21pm Post subject:

The indexer is written in php. It does not use mirc or anything similar and yes it was written from scratch by Jason.

Why did your network ban the bot Scoobs8?

JohnB
SearchIRC.com staff

ORenyRen · none Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 38

What about an option to pick 5 or 10 networks that you'd like to try the /whois on? As of now, the whois searches the same 10 networks for the nickname, but what if we know that the person who we are trying to do the /whois on is on one of __ networks, but we're not sure which one? Allowing 5 customizable networks for the /whois to search on would make this much more effective and useful I don't use any of the networks that the user search searches on.

katsklaw · Guru Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1095

IMO, you should go to ___ network and type: /whois <nick> for yourself. SIRC can save it's valuable bandwidth and other resources for something more productive. Hate to sound rude but the /whois feature lures the lazy people. /IMO

zeke · Idler Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 312

i agree katsklaw...besides....it wouldn't be too hard to build your own bot in mIRCscript, not that much harder in php or perl, use your own bandwidth to search for individuals, let SearchIRC focus on being slightly more general

Jason · Posted: May 08, 2005 9:00pm Post subject:

whois has been modified to dynamically sit on channels based on network size/channels (No, I'm not giving specifics). Right now, that amounts to around 35 networks.

czechplz · Guest

Why is it that ETG isnt included in the whois search...this was a VERY valuable tool i used often and i will miss it greatly. Sad

Jason · Posted: May 26, 2005 3:27pm Post subject:

I had to limit a lot of stuff when we had hardware issues. I will expand the robots back to being on all major networks (I guess the cutoff would be around 4000 users)

Jason · Posted: May 26, 2005 8:48pm Post subject:

ok, more whois bots are online.

bctrainers · Newbie Joined: 11 Mar 2005 Posts: 68 Location: kansas city

radius · Lurker Joined: 24 Aug 2004 Posts: 114

I think this is a valuable tool to ircops on any network - if a kiddie is causing trouble, it (user) can be traced on other networks and can be monitored. This is not a lazy feature ... do you know how long it would take to trace a user on each and evey network? This gives the admins/ircops a one stop trace.

I have discussed this option with some ircops from certain large networks and they agree that they found this tool to be valuable.

Thank you to the searchirc team ... for those of us who are not lazy and needed something easier to track some users wandering the larger networks.

Guest · Posted: Jul 20, 2005 11:07am Post subject:

I understand to save people 'flooding' the bots with requests you may cache results, but could you include an option [perhaps with one of those image-verification thingys] to reduce the cache time for a result to like 2 mins or to not cache it?

Sometimes I do one whois request, then want to do the same a few mins later to check things Smile

trystan · Eleet Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 756 Location: SLC Utah

thanks FreeIRC for the spam