kire@net:~$ uptime since 1997 ddos: armed vhosts: loaded identd: on

$./vhosts

Show up as a joke, not an ISP.

A vanity vhost is a real address with a PTR we set on purpose. Your bot or client appears as cant.get.it.up.anymore.net instead of dhcp-pool-3.isp.example. That is the whole trick. DNS, not a cloak someone else owns.

/whois lamer
lamer is ~ident@cant.get.it.up.anymore.netircname  : just a lamer
server   : some.irc.net
vhost    : cant.get.it.up.anymore.netidle     : 3d 4h (not your cable modem)
lamer End of /WHOIS list.

$ls vhosts/

69 IPv6 · 54 IPv4. Same list as vhosts.kire.net. Click a name to copy it. Addresses with no PTR are omitted.

see the live list or type vhosts from the shell