Check hosts/names on the server

[sege]

Is it possible to go through all nicknames/hostmasks on the server with some random interval to find something specific?

I havent been coding eggie-TCL for a while but i remember that i didn't find that when I was coding like a year ago or something. I only found channel-function for this.

Can anyone give me a little example on how to find a nick and how to find a hostmask online on the server. The bot wont be in any channel (i want it hidden).

Thanks!

[user]

Is it possible to go through all nicknames/hostmasks on the server with some random interval to find something specific?

Like what? Someone to spam? Most users are invisible nowadays and can't be seen unless you're on a channel they're on or know their nick already.

If your bot is a privileged user on the ircd, you can make it list all users and catch the response from the server using a couple of raw binds.

[sege]

No no no, not to spam.

My bot will be ircop on the server and it's for finding a lovely person using like a billion different proxies to harass our users. We dont have ircops awake all the time and when he know someone is there he'll DDoS us far away from this planet, so I want a hidden bot to find him and hunt him down.

[user]

"NAMES" will give you all the nicks and "WHO" will give you hosts and more

Check the irc rfc for the numerics needed to fetch the response and the format of the messages.

[ppslim]

The who command will return every user on the server.

While there will not be a code loop, due to the way the data is returned, your bot will be flooded with MB's of data.

I would sugest staggering the lookups with soemthing like "WHO a*", and rotating through the alphabet and numerics.

[sege]

I started with a ISON, so now I have a trigger on nickname at least.

Its only around 200 users online so it'll probably work anyway i think.