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I've heard of malicious players using IP masquerading to avoid sitebans and such, but what is it exactly? How does it work, and how does one foil it? I am guessing that it's fairly easy to evade IP name-based bans by setting up a bogus reverse DNS server or something, but can you hide your numerical IP? Our mud isn't open yet, and won't be for some time, but I'd like to squash this sort of nonsense before it can get started.

IP Masquerading is a way for more than once machine to share the same IP, usually used to allow several computers to access the same internet connection. It's something that can easily be done using a linux machine as the gateway, I'm not sure if that is what you mean though.

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Brian Graversern

You mean IP spoofing??

/Fredrik

I think he really means players having access to an AOL disk and logging in on any one of several million randomly assigned class B IPs. :-P

IP spoofing? Yes, that was it. And thanks for the link.

There are a couple of ways to avoid using your own IP address. A real old and effective trick is to telnet into a remote machine and then telnet to the target machine from there. The target machine (in this case, running the MUD) would get the machine in the middle's IP address and not yours. I'm not sure if you can get the originator's IP address unless you happen to have access to the middle machine.

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