Bah, I got banned from WyldRyde's Network.

[Human No More]

Are you on a dynamic IP address? That might be one reason, if someone else got banned while using that IP.

[Sight Unseen]

Originally Posted by Human No More

Are you on a dynamic IP address? That might be one reason, if someone else got banned while using that IP.

Originally Posted by Lyra

WEIRD. I can still connect using mibbit, and my account still logs in fine

Yeah, if you have internet through cable (or some ADSL services) you could power cycle your modem and see if that fixes your problem, as banning is IP based, which is why you could log in through mibbit. If none of that works, you could set up a cache at a friends house, find a cache list, or use tor (not sure if WyldRyde will play nice with tor)

(if you want instructions just ask )

[weka]

Originally Posted by Xynth

Doesn't matter if you were the channel operator or not, but if an ircop wasn't preset in the channel, that means you must've triggered one of the previously mentioned killwords / killphrases.
Also, I edited out the URL you linked earlier because it contained your IP adress.

I don't want to be a purist but here goes.

People can't do anything with an IP address. The worst they can do (with success) is find out your ISP, host name, and the location the IP is hosted on.

They can't hack your computer. They can try but 99.99% of the times -- they fail. I know this and I hate it when people go like "OMG MY IP ADDRESS IS SHOWING!!!1111!1". But they can hack because your Firewall is open and you have open ports. Usually most computers warn you when your Firewall is open and most users do good and close it.

This myth of having someone's IP address was created as a "scare-tactic" in games from server administrators who collect the incoming IPs of players who join the game on their server. So if they messed up big time they would shout out "Hey player 1, I got your IP - don't mess with me or break the rules." Now a days you cannot see another person's IP because most game developers hide it before the vanilla software comes out. But for most popular games, that are not built by big game industries, that require a TCP Client/Server -- you can.

[Eltu]

Well said.

[Davy Jones]

With ones IP, you can DDoS, find out personal info, etc.
I don't really see a reason to keep it there, it's not like it'll help figure the issue out, better safe than sorry?

[weka]

Of course they can find out your personal information. It's pretty hard now a days to keep it a secret because of social networking, yellow pages, and well being an adult. And DDoSing is an illegal crime activity. You can report it.

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by weka

I don't want to be a purist but here goes.

People can't do anything with an IP address. The worst they can do (with success) is find out your ISP, host name, and the location the IP is hosted on.

They can't hack your computer. They can try but 99.99% of the times -- they fail. I know this and I hate it when people go like "OMG MY IP ADDRESS IS SHOWING!!!1111!1". But they can hack because your Firewall is open and you have open ports. Usually most computers warn you when your Firewall is open and most users do good and close it.

This myth of having someone's IP address was created as a "scare-tactic" in games from server administrators who collect the incoming IPs of players who join the game on their server. So if they messed up big time they would shout out "Hey player 1, I got your IP - don't mess with me or break the rules." Now a days you cannot see another person's IP because most game developers hide it before the vanilla software comes out. But for most popular games, that are not built by big game industries, that require a TCP Client/Server -- you can.

True in theory, assuming you aren't running anything vulnerable. Really though, the main risk in publicly displaying an IP address is either DDOS, or attacks via social engineering (primarily fake abuse reports to the ISP), although some may have other ideas, such as an obvious attack/portscan against people who WILL trace it, spoofing the sender IP as yours. Depending on the ISP, physical location and other details MAY be available, although this is not something just anyone could get from one.
It may not be as bad as some people think, but I'd still never give out my IP address publicly.

As for open ports, it depends... Without a good router and firewall, it IS possible, especially if any software is run with known exploits (even keeping things fully up to date isn't perfect as a zero-day (new) exploit COULD be used, but in order for that to happen you would really need to go out of your way to get some of the best to attack, it is definitely not something every script kiddie has access to). Realistically though, it's a lot easier to just DDOS someone.
Reporting a DDOS is different to actually finding the people though, if they are sensible (not launching it themselves but using botnets, even spoofing the sender IP is enough to avoid identification by almost everyone)
Trust me, I know plenty on this and have seen more than most people first hand.

Not saying anything WILL happen, but I'm always careful with my details like that.

[Davy Jones]

Yeah well, the people DDoS:ing usually use botnets or such; and are often behind seven proxies.

Bottom line being, they obviously know it's illegal, and they obviously know how to defend themselves against legal actions

We "avatarians" or whatever to call us aren't very... popular here n there around the interwebz

Basically... what HNM said.

[Lyra]

Bah, That IP isn't even really mine, Im given it 1/3 times i connect to the internet, and as it's still banned from wyldryde i just unplug my dongle and reconnect it.