Revision as of 12:24, 23 July 2008

Login-on-Connect (LOC)

General

The Login-on-Connect (LOC) feature allows you to pre-login while connecting to DareNET. Using Login-on-Connect bypasses you from RBL scans and hides your hostname before anyone can see your real IP address. We recommend everyone give it a try.

To use Login-on-Connect, you must first have an DareNET NickServ Account. Register for one here if you don't already have one.

Login-on-connect uses the “server password” feature built into most IRC clients. All you do is put your specially formatted login information into the server password box like this:

/username/password (slash, your username, slash, your password)

for example, my username is NiTeMaRe, and if my pasword was mysecretpass I would put the following into my password box:

/NiTeMaRe/mysecretpass

When you connect to DareNET using the new password, you should see a message like the following:

*** Attempting service login to NickServ
*** AUTHENTICATION SUCCESSFUL as NiTeMaRe

Client Specific Instructions:

Detailed instructions for mIRC users.

Detailed instructions for XChat users.

Troubleshooting

• Make sure you can login the normal way to NickServ: /ns auth username password
• If you get a message about /QUOTE PASS that means your username, or password is wrong, or maybe NickServ is down?
• Some people reported having to close mIRC and re-open it before LOC started working.
• You no longer have to have a *@* host (default) set in NickServ since LOC is now aware of your hostname.
• The 'server group' must be the string “DareNET” exactly. mIRC wont send the password if the name doesn't match what the server announces itself as.
• Try typing the password string into notepad so you can see it. Then paste it into the password box.