Archive for December, 2009

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IRC bouncer comparison

Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009

A bouncer (BNC for short) is a piece of software used to relay the communication between an IRC client and the network it is connected to, acting as a Proxy.

So, whats the point you ask? The reasons and benefits of using a bouncer are many and include hiding the real IP you are connecting from, protecting your nickname and channel from being taken on networks that don’t provide channel-/nickname registration and most of the time they’ll also notify you of private messages that came in when you’ve been disconnected – of course only when the bouncer can stay online being connected from a server.

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Tags: IRC, muh, psyBNC, sBNC, Software, ZNC
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KVIrc 4.0 RC2 tagged [Updated]

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Just a few minutes ago, HelLViS69 has released RC2 of the IRC-client KVIrc.

He writes that they “are proud to release the next release candidate. This release contains a huge amount of bugfixes, a cleaner and readable code, some new features including the new ISO standards for file sizes and datetimes format and a new automagical wizard to create addons.”

For now, there is only the possibility to checkout your copy from their SVN repository but he writes that “snapshots for the different OSes/arches will follow in the next days.”

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Tags: IRC, KVIrc, Software
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WeIRCd 0.7.5 released

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

Elmaron of Eloxoph updates WeIRCd to version 0.7.5.

The update includes nifty new things like a settings pane for the Windows-based version where you can change settings without having to edit the config-file and it now supports INVITE. He also added a line to WHOIS, showing the IP you’re connecting from.

WeIRCd settings pane

WeIRCd settings pane

He notes that though there are no security fixes in this release but a memleak has been fixed so “updating is still advised.”

The download can be found here.

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Tags: IRC, Software, WeIRCd
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IRC bouncer ZNC releases new stable version 0.078

Friday, December 18th, 2009

The IRC bouncer project ZNC has a new stable release, version 0.078.

ZNC is an advanced bouncer that has module support, can encrypt all traffic between the servers and clients with SSL and also has a nice webinterface for easy configuration and administration.

Other features are detaching from the BNC with playback support, it has a partyline, can bounce DCCs too and you even can connect with multiple clients to one user, sharing the same username on IRC then.

The changelog is rather long and includes fixes, feature additions and a few internal changes.

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Tags: IRC, Software, ZNC
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Freenode under DDoS

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

What many have suspected has now been confirmed – the root cause of the many netsplits on the freenode IRC network during the last days have been caused by ongoing DDoS attacks on their sponsors.

Freenode staffer JonathanD writes in their blogpost that they are experiencing a “heavy DDoS against several locations at which some of our servers are hosted. The attack is ongoing and cause a lot of disruption, both to users of the network and unfortunately to projects/companies/individuals whos infrastructure is hosted at the same locations as us” but also writes that they are “working hard to try curb the attacks as best they can.”

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Tags: DDoS, freenode, IRC
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