Translations:Cloaking/1/en

Cloaking is a way to hide the real hostname of users on IRC. For example if your real host is d5142341.cable.wanadoo.nl then without cloaking a join will look like this: *** User (~none@d5142341.cable.wanadoo.nl) has joined #test With cloaking enabled users will see: *** User (~none@rox-2DCA3201.cable.wanadoo.nl) has joined #test As you can see the host is cloaked (disguised, partially hidden) so other people don't get to see your real hostname nor your IP. This feature is useful to prevent users from flooding/attacking each other, they can't flood the other party without knowing their real host/IP. The host is not just cloaked in JOIN's, it's also hidden in PART, WHOIS, etc.. every command that would otherwise have exposed your real host or IP to another user.