ngIRCd: Next Generation IRC Daemon

ngIRCd

ngIRCd is a free open source server for Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which is being developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). It has been written from scratch and is consequently, unlike most other IRC daemons, not based on the originator, the daemon of the IRCNet.

Hint: at freshmeat.net there's an entry for the ngIRCd project. You can inform about new releases and get update notifications via E-Mail.

BTW: Von dieser Seite gibt es auch eine deutsche Version.

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Advantages

Why you should be using ngIRCd? For these and other reasons:

no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses
well arranged (lean) configuration file
freely available, modern and tidy C-source
ngIRCd is being actively developed since 9 years.

ngircd --help

ngircd 13-SYSLOG+ZLIB+SSL+TCPWRAP+IDENT+IRCPLUS+IPv6-x86_64/pc/linux-gnu Copyright (c)2001-2008 Alexander Barton (<alex@barton.de>) and Contributors. Homepage: <http://ngircd.barton.de/> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. -f, --config <f> use file <f> as configuration file -n, --nodaemon don't fork and don't detach from controlling terminal -p, --passive disable automatic connections to other servers -t, --configtest read, validate and display configuration; then exit -V, --version output version information and exit -h, --help display this help and exit

Simplicity

ngIRCd supports a whole range of platforms: Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, but ngIRCD also runs on Solaris, HP-UX, AIX and other Unices.

After the installation of ngIRC, which is executed via packet installation or configure-make-make-install, and once you have edited the ngircd.conf, you can get started after 5 minutes. – only a few lines need adapting, the rest is purely optional.