Cannot change ident

[f00ge]

Hi,

For some reason I can't change my ident.

This is how it looks on whois:
f00ge|afk is ***@IP.xx.xx.xx.xx. * f00ge

Now, no matter what I do, change email, change ident, enable ident server,
try both ways of lookup - even download another version of mIRC and install
from fresh - it still says ab@*

Even with another ISP. Another auth (using quakenet) and another mIRC.
It still says ab@*ip bla bla*

I cannot see anywhere in mIRC where this 'ab' is. It's simply not there.
Not even my computer's name is ab, or the windows user.

Can anyone tell my, how this can happen?
I used to be able to change the ident in just changing it in the options
screen in mIRC.

Any help is muchly appriciated.
Thanks.

[Joel]

Post by f00ge
For some reason I can't change my ident.
Now, no matter what I do, change email, change ident, enable ident server,
try both ways of lookup - even download another version of mIRC and install

Are you the only computer on your local network (with the same IP)?
If not, perhaps another one is receiving all the identd requests
(listening on port 113), and your own is never getting the chance to
reply with your own ident.

[f00ge]

Post by Joel
Are you the only computer on your local network (with the same IP)?
If not, perhaps another one is receiving all the identd requests
(listening on port 113), and your own is never getting the chance to
reply with your own ident.

There are three PC in the LAN. But only this one uses IRC.
And add to that that I run one of the mIRC's with a totally different ISP (I
have two DSL connections - don't ask :p).
And still it shows this ident. those two letters don't occur in the mIRC or
anywhere on this PC.
I simply don't get it.

[Joel]

Post by f00ge
There are three PC in the LAN. But only this one uses IRC.
And add to that that I run one of the mIRC's with a totally different ISP (I
have two DSL connections - don't ask :p).
And still it shows this ident. those two letters don't occur in the mIRC or
anywhere on this PC.
I simply don't get it.

Have you checked netstat to see if anything on your machine is
listening on port 113?

[f00ge]

Mistery solved.
I had another mIRC client running atthe same time - connected through a bnc.
For some reason, the 2nd mIRC client somehow used the ident of the client on
the bnc.
Odd.

Thanks anyway, Joel. :)

P.S. Nothing was listening on port 113.

Post by Joel

Post by f00ge
There are three PC in the LAN. But only this one uses IRC.
And add to that that I run one of the mIRC's with a totally different ISP (I
have two DSL connections - don't ask :p).
And still it shows this ident. those two letters don't occur in the mIRC or
anywhere on this PC.
I simply don't get it.

Have you checked netstat to see if anything on your machine is
listening on port 113?
--
Joel Crump