Help after installing IRC ZNC - How to hide my ZNC server's IP with my
domain name?
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socopoco12 · 2020-07-02 02:53

Hello,

I managed to install ZNC on my raspberry pi server and it works fine
and also lets me connect to it through MIRC from my windows machine -
But, for the life of me, I haven't been able to find any tutorials or
guides as to how I can now replace/mask my ZNC's IP address with my
domain name (like if someone whois's my nick, they'd see my domain
name instead of IP - like so many other people do using PSYBNC etc.).

p.s. I managed to point my domain's A value to my ZNC server - but how
do I configure ZNC to display my domain name instead of IP add?

Please consider me a noob, and your help is very very welcome :)

Thanks!!

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htepO · 2020-07-02 04:32

I think reverse DNS (used by servers to resolve the IP to the domain)
also requires a PTR record.

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killerj666 · 2020-07-02 04:32

You should configure your reverse DNS as well via your domain
registrar so your domain points to your IP.

DNS: ip to domain

rDNS: domain to ip

Hope this helps.

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sim642 · 2020-07-02 04:36

It's not something you can configure in ZNC. The IRC server knows your
IP anyway and it's up to it where or how much it is shown. Some show
the IP to everyone, some mask it, some show custom masks (e.g.
HostServ).

Some make a rDNS lookup instead of showing the IP and rDNS is the only
thing *you* can change there, but that's outside of ZNC.

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OMGItsCheezWTF · 2020-07-02 06:47

Other way around.

DNS maps domain names to an IP address (A record for IPv4, AAAA record
for IPv6)

rDNS maps IP addresses to domain names (PTR record)

You can usually set DNS records through your domain registrar. You
would have to set rDNS with your server host or ISP as they control
the IP address range. If they don't offer a web form for it you may
have to contact them directly.

IPv6 PTR records look ridiculous.

    1.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.b.d.0.1.0.0.2.ip
6.arpa. 1h IN PTR host1.example.com.

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killerj666 · 2020-07-02 12:24

I stand corrected. Hope the above solves this for you OP.

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socopoco12 · 2020-07-04 06:01

Thanks everyone and thanks OMGItsCheezWTF - Seems there's no hope. My
ISP will never let me do that. Thanks again!