Can people see my host or IP? Can I see others?

On WyldRyde all our users' IP addresses and host masks are privatized upon connection to prevent others from determining your IP address or full hostmask.

Only WyldRyde Staff and YOU can see your own IP address and full host. So when YOU "/whois your-own-nick" you will see it. However, when others whois you they will only see a privatized IP address or hostmask.

Other users may still see your ISP (e.g: privatehost-E6919581.hsd1.vt.comcast.net) but they won't be able to determine your IP address and make a direct connection to your computer from the information they get from your /whois.

Do not be tricked into allowing others to see your IP address or full host:

• Never type "/mode your-nick -x" as it will allow others to see your IP address or full host mask.
  
• Do not accept DCC chat or file transfers requests as either will allow a direct connection to your machine and will allow someone to determine your IP.
  

There has recently been a lot of questions and insistences by a few that Colloquy can determine the IP addresses of everyone. This is absolutely not the case. Colloquy performs a dns of the vhost address, and if it's a real domain name, it provides the IP address that the domain name is associated with. It does not provide the actual IP address that the user is using because it cannot, nor can any client, get the IP address of any privatized hostmask or IP.