Is there a way to locate somebody by his nick or IP address on the internet's IRC servers?I guess the protocol doesn't seem to support it! Still... can it be done? like crawling the web for IRC servers and injecting bots to query about if that nick/IP is online on one of the channels?Is there a simpler way?
locating somebody on IRC servers over the Internet
irc;privacy;ircd
search enginesThe simplest way I've ever seen is to use a service such as searchirc.com.http://searchirc.com/whois    web frontendsSome of the IRC servers provide web frontends to the /whois command so if you know someone frequents a particular IRC server you can search for them using those. For example:DALnet IRC NetworklistsLastly there are lists of servers so you can go through the various servers and look for users in a brute force kind of fashion.IRC Networks and Server Lists