IRC in Turing

[Mackie]

As a curiosity I tried connecting to an IRC server through Turing, now it wants an "ident" of sorts. To be honest I don't know what that is or what I'm supposed to do... What do I do now?

Turing:

View.Set ("text") var ip : string := Net.HostAddressFromName ("irc.afternet.org") var line : string var ircStream : int := Net.OpenConnection (ip, 6667) if ircStream <= 0 then     put "Connection Error"     return end if loop     get : ircStream, line : *     put line end loop

Output:

code:

NOTICE AUTH :*** Looking up your hostname NOTICE AUTH :*** Checking your IP against DNS ban lists NOTICE AUTH :*** Checking Ident NOTICE AUTH :*** Found your hostname NOTICE AUTH :*** DNS ban list check passed NOTICE AUTH :*** No ident response

[rizzix]

Ah there are some very qualified individuals who can answer this: Cervantes and Hikaru. Wherever the hell they are...

[Saad]

Learn about the IRC Protocol first (A good link is here). Its much better you understand how IRC works rather then asking what comes next

[Tony]

Both are currently on UW campus. If you feel like tracking them down in person... I saw them both there last week.

[TheGuardian001]

as far as i know, ident is used by irc servers to check if somebody is who they say they are. its generally in the form of user @ connection . host

eg: bob @ CPE-29 . myhost . net

if keeps track of this information, which is used for things like bans.
as for how you could get turing to find and send that info, Ive got no idea. hope that helped a bit.

[Nick]

code:

* Looking up us.afternet.org * Connecting to north-america.afternet.org (72.36.252.163) port 6667... * Connected. Now logging in... * *** Looking up your hostname * *** Checking your IP against DNS ban lists * *** Checking Ident * *** Found your hostname * *** DNS ban list check passed * *** No ident response * Welcome to the AfterNET IRC Network, Nick

straight from x-chat

[rdrake]

Doesn't Turing have some sort of Net module? Use that to send and receive the plain text commands the IRC clients expect.

A few of us wrote Rubidium a while back. It's an IRC client written in Ruby. The source code is there somewhere, you can look at it to see how the protocol is implemented.

[Mackie]

Thanks Saad and rdrake, I'm looking into RFC 1459 (Internet Relay Chat Protocol) and RFC 1413 (Identification Protocol). I'm also looking through the Rubidium source code, hopefully I can patch something together soon enough. I good intro to Networking, I'm learning a lot actually.

<request> ::= <port-pair> <EOL>

<port-pair> ::= <integer> "," <integer>

<EOL> ::= "015 012" ; CR-LF End of Line Indicator

According to those, to request an Ident, I need to get a port pair. As in:

<port-on-server> , <port-on-client>

I have the server port, which would be 6667. What would I use as the Client Port, I haven't been assigned one yet? Do I need to set up a listen server. I haven't found the solution in Rubidium yet, but I'll keep looking!