IRC Server

aquanius · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 1

How would you go about setting up a irc server, what would you need?

vakuum · Joined: 01 Nov 2004 Posts: 10

A computer to run it on, an internet connection and the software.

This post may interest you, http://www.irc-junkie.org/viewtopic.php?t=144

If you dont have a computer to run it off, you can get a shell account pretty cheap, where you can run an ircd. www.egghelp.org has a list of many shellaccounts.
Explanation for what a shell account is: http://www.egghelp.org/shell.htm

And for the software, there's a bunch of them.

http://www.unrealircd.com/
http://bahamut.dal.net/

If you arent satisfied with the software on those sites, you can google for ircd, and you'll find other ircds too.

ShelLuser · Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 38 Location: Amersfoort, Holland

I think you forgot the most important part of them all: the time and the patience to learn how to operate & configure the software. The most important thing would really be to invest some time into making yourself completely familiar with the things you're doing before inviting users over.

Ofcourse there are many people who don't take this approach but I think they'll make a fool of themselves sooner or later anyway. For example; anyone witnessed the UnderNet 10 year celebration where an IRC Oper (out of all people) wasn't familiar with the /ignore command ?
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Strike · Joined: 11 Apr 2005 Posts: 3

Also take a look at:

http://www.srvx.net - SRVX Services
http://www.gnuworld.org - GNUWorld Services
http://coder-com.undernet.org - IRCu IRC Daemon

Both of these services sets (srvx and gnuworld) are phenomenal, and the better of largescale production networks use one of the two. GNUWorld, however, is a bit of a resource hog. SRVX, on the other hand, is easy to setup, run, and even contains runtime-configurable commands. IRCu is the server that both of these run on; there are several alternates around with improvements from stock IRCu. If you're interested in them or even need help installing other services/ircds, give me a shout on irc.elitistfaction.net in #ElitistFaction and I will help you further.
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ShelLuser · Joined: 02 Apr 2005 Posts: 38 Location: Amersfoort, Holland

Bah, gimme Anope anytime over GNUWorld Wink

GNUWorld maybe nice when it comes to big networks but if you're still small you may really benefit from specific features, for example Anope's defcon.

I guess what I'm basicly trying to say is "don't use the big guns if you can get something custom sized instead".
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katsklaw · Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:32 am?? ?Post subject:

lummy_al · Joined: 02 May 2005 Posts: 1 Location: Edinburgh

hey guys I was about to answer the same question, but I figured I should look for a similar thread first. I read "IRC HACKS" and I was hooked, I've started to write my own client in Python, damn that book it's a gateway drug, lol Smile

Stefano · Joined: 01 May 2005 Posts: 33 Location: Beirut

srvx are good services, bugged a bit but very good services for small/average networks. its just like a mixture of the good of dalnet with undernet. use ircu Nefarious wich has lot of nice features.
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Alpha · Joined: 01 Apr 2006 Posts: 5

Its not recommened to run an IRCd from a home connection Smile

Our server uses Charybdis IRCd and Atheme services both fast and reliable no nonsense combo Smile

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