Telnetting into IRC

W-Unit · Newbie Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 83

Maybe this is a newbish question but I've tried and tried and can't figure it out.
Alright, well obviously if you want to telnet in the first thing you do is connect; I'm not that dumb. But from there I'm lost. How do I get it to stop doing this (this is an example of a testing thing I tried)?

:SERVER.SERVER.BLAH NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname...
:SERVER.SERVER.BLAH NOTICE AUTH :*** Found your hostname (cached)
:SERVER.SERVER.BLAH NOTICE AUTH :*** Checking ident...
:SERVER.SERVER.BLAH NOTICE AUTH :*** No ident response; username prefixed with ~
privmsg W-Unit :hi
:MusicWorld.TheCrystalGlen.net 451 privmsg :You have not registered

zeke · Idler Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 320

you need to read up on the USER and NICK commands
I can't remember the exact syntax for them both, IIRC USER comes first, then NICK
Send those..and you will have "Registered" - and you'll get all the nice stream of server info and motd etc

GreyMouser · Newbie Joined: 04 Dec 2004 Posts: 74

A wise man once told me when all else fails ... read the instructions! Smile

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1459.html

[DiMENSiON] · Eleet Joined: 06 Sep 2003 Posts: 621

RTFM is always a good idea.. or just google it ^_^

Cobi · Lurker Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 121 Location: IRC

aquanight · Lurker Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 118 Location: Boise, ID

For some reason, I do USER first, and technically, the second and third fields (the localhost and servername) are ignored, the second field is just pulled from the socket data (or the DNS reply), and the third field is pulled from config. Though I imagine IRC bouncers or virtual servers can use the third parameter to decide what server to connect to (similar to how HTTP/1.1 uses the Host request header).

zeke · Idler Joined: 04 Oct 2003 Posts: 320

IIRC, some hybrid servers (and maybe others) use the servername field when telling you what you've connected to.

{edit}
I just had a go connecting to EFNet. Aside from being constantly dc'd for lack of Identd:

aquanight · Lurker Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 118 Location: Boise, ID

The servername put in those first server notices actually came from mIRC. If you telnet irc.us.efnet.info:6667 you'd see that the authentication notices actually don't have a sender prefix, so mIRC makes a "best guess" and fills in the server it thinks it's connecting to. I've sometimes had the IP address appear in those notices because that's what I connected to and the server didn't have the sender prefix in the authnotices.

W-Unit · Newbie Joined: 29 Jul 2004 Posts: 83

Regardless, you would still have to send the second and third parameters so that you can send the fourth which IS required, right?

EqualSlashed_Brian · Lurker Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 222 Location: IRC

aquanight · Lurker Joined: 14 Jun 2004 Posts: 118 Location: Boise, ID