Re: Players IP Addresses

From: Patrick J. Dughi (dughi@IMAXX.NET)
Date: 07/17/97


>
> > G'Day All.
> >     one of my players has an IP address of aurora.cc.monash.com.au.
> > Now, a mate of his logged on with the same IP address. Is there ANY
> > way of determining that they are different people?
> > It will happen for most universities (the only example i can think of
> > right now).
>
> You may be able to get the usernames of the players involved.  Try
> telnetting to port 113 of that site.  If it doesn't refuse the connection,
> you can get their usernames while they're logged in, either with the ident
> patch, or manually entering the port pairs.
>
        As is stated above, you can get the ident patch, and just use it
to  gather the information for you.  Usernames (if they're provided) will
come up just fine.

                                                PjD


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