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.SH DESCRIPTION
.BR ngIRCd
is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for small
is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server for small
or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
.PP
The server is quite easy to configure, can handle dynamic IP addresses, and
optionally supports IDENT, IPv6 connections, SSL-protected links, and PAM for
user authentication as well as character set conversion for legacy clients. The
server has been written from scratch and is not based on the "forefather", the
daemon of the IRCNet.
The server is quite easy to configure and runs as a single-node server or can
be part of a network of ngIRCd servers in a LAN or across the internet. It
optionally supports the IPv6 protocol, SSL/TLS-protected client-server and
server-server links, the Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) system for user
authentication, IDENT requests, and character set conversion for legacy
clients.
.PP
The name ngIRCd means
The name ngIRCd stands for
.IR "next-generation IRC daemon",
which is a little bit exaggerated:
.IR "lightweight Internet Relay Chat server"
most probably would have been a better name :-)
.PP
Currently supported platforms include AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, Hurd, IRIX,
Linux, macOS, Minix, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
As ngIRCd relies on UNIX standards and uses GNU automake and GNU autoconf
there are good chances that it also supports other UNIX-based operating
systems as well.
.PP
By default ngIRCd logs diagnostic and informational messages using the syslog
mechanism, or writes directly to the console when running in the foreground
(see below).