Luigi Auriemma

This was posted after talking about using IRC to enter game lobbies instead of using GSA. We were hurassed about changing the topic or else a ban. Then this happend.....
<L|Qu|DRav3r> lol

<Admin> This lobby has now been moderated due to your inability to listen

15min later...

<Admin> I will restore chat, but change the subject

Forced to talk about something else but mean while in the terms & rules there was nothing in there stating about it.

I have been banned from their service aswell with a dozen others just for that & its stupid. I tried using ur peerchat_irc.exe but it keeps saying disconnected after i changed mac. For some reason i can only connect through GSA by opening your peerchat_proxy first then loading Aphex.exe

Any suggestions?

Hey, seems that Gamespy doesn't like to have people using their IRC server (peerchat) used just like... an IRC server as it is.

Anyway the latest version of peerchat_irc (0.3a) works very well so I don't know why you receive errors, probably the admin has banned your IP address (I hope it's dynamic).
When you use peerchat_irc, in what moment you are disconnected? when you join the server or a specific room?

Right when i try to connect it throws a list of games & the keys, then it repeats disconnected over & over. Im on static :-( I did have a dynamic ip before which i noticed was easier to get around from a mute/gag

Just today when i loged on...


ADMIN (10/13/07 09:48 AM)
Notice: Your chat privileges have been revoked from this service for violation of our acceptable use policy (http://www.gamespyarcade.com/software/s ... ules.shtml). The reason given is: L|Qu|DRav3r-gs Posting invalid links. This will expire on: 10/15/2007 18:1. You can continue to use the service to play games, but will not be allowed to chat with other users.

ADMIN (10/13/07 09:48 AM)
Notice: Your chat privileges have been revoked from this service for violation of our acceptable use policy (http://www.gamespyarcade.com/software/s ... ules.shtml). The reason given is: Using unauthorized client. This will expire on: 10/14/2007 6:45. You can continue to use the service to play games, but will not be allowed to chat with other users.


I only get this message when i join through the arcade.
I checked the peerchat_irc version & i do have the newest one.

Uhmmm there is something strange here.
Naturally yesterday before replying to your post I have tried peerchat_irc here and no ban or other unusual things.
The server identifies you, which means two things:
- IP address: if you are NATted, and this happens with some ISP (check your real IP address on the web), your IP remains the same
- strings in your IRC clients: some mods or special IRC clients send additional strings which could be identified by the peerchat server

peerchat_irc
[15:28] *** Connecting to 127.0.0.1:6667
[15:28] *** Connected
[15:28] *** Using Identity "user", Nick HyDraSpy-gs
[15:28] *** Socket Error (10053: The connection was terminated due to a time-out or other failure)
[15:28] *** Socket Disconnected
[15:28] *** Disconnected (2007-10-14 15:28:06)
[15:28] *** Connect attempt 1 of 110 failed, delaying retry for 30 seconds (Click "Disconnect" to cancel)

peerchat_proxy
[15:30] *** Connecting to 127.0.0.1:6667
[15:30] *** Connected
[15:30] *** Using Identity "user", Nick HyDraSpy-gs
[15:30] Welcome to the Matrix HyDraSpy-gs
[15:30] Your host is xs4, running version 1.0
[15:30] This server was created Fri Oct 19 1979 at 21:50:00 PDT
[15:30] s 1.0 iq biklmnopqustvhe
[15:30] - (M) Message of the day -
[15:30] - Welcome to GameSpy
[15:30] End of MOTD command
[15:30] HyDraSpy-gs=+HyDrA@71.53.239.66
[15:33] #gsp!peerchat - Cannot join channel (+b)

Both are the ones that u updated on the site

They are banning you by both your nick and IP.

You should check what peerchat_irc tells you, not what your IRC client does.

Then peerchat_proxy is only for servers not for clients.

i found another irc ip and port back in the day that the admins & vip's use to use 207.38.8.36:20000

witch was gpsp.gamespy.com:20000



this was about 3 years ago

Hi Guys,


I fiddled with Tor/sockscap (or freecap) but couldn't get it to run stable on win32. (I needed a solution for my ip-ban on gamespy)

After a while i found this solution http://janusvm.peertech.org/. Basically, it's TOR/PROXIFY in a Vmware machine, so you do need Vmware player for it to work.

After installing, you just open up a VPN connection to your virtual machine and routes all traffic through TOR. Changing your public ip is done by a simple keypress. DNS leakes are taken care of too (for my purposes this wasn't necessary)

Not very fast, but fast enough for my purposes.

And to Luigi: I admire your work, thumbs up!

Dont know wtf were you doing, but sockscap + Tor works perfectly on windows.

I have sockscap, Vidalia bundle (tor + vidalia and no extras) and custom windows xp. Everything works just fine. I will choose the program in sockscap and specify the parameters and run it. Oh yeah and ... in sockscap i also chose TOR (127.0.0.1:9050) .. its slow, but its working.