IRC-Junkie.org – IRC News

After more than 2 years of silence the DALnet Coding Team released a new version of Bahamut, an IRCd mainly used on DAL.net.

First being released as version 1.8.5 there was a bugfix-release shortly thereafter as a bug has been found in channelmode +c which sometimes not only prevented control-characters as bold and underlined being sent but also stripped legitimate messages that contained certain arabic and hebrew characters.

We took the time to ask Epiphani – the Coding Teams Team-Leader – a few question about his IRCd and the history of it:

“This website is temporary down because the idiot admin (i.e. me) didn’t update phpBB to a non exploitable version” webmaster Doc stated on the Bahamut-community.org website.

Bahamut-community.org is a website with got started to help users with this popular IRCd, and to relieve the support channel #bahamut on DALnet from FAQ’s.

The website is based on the popular phpBB forum software, which recently saw an important update due to a serious exploit. Webmaster Doc stated in a  reaction to IRC-Junkie: “I had been warned about it soon after it came out by several people, however I’ve recently just got a job and a new girlfriend, so I’ve had very little time for the internet :. I guess this has taught me a lesson.”