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ngIRCd IRC server.
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This patch enables ngIRCd to handle IRC services as real services, and not as "fake users": - Set correct client type CLIENT_SERVICE for services, - Change log messages to include correct client type, - PRIVMSG: allow users to send messages to services, - Send services nick names to other servers (as users). Please note that this patch doesn't announce services as services in the network, but as regular users (as before). Only the local server knows of services as services (see LUSERS command, for example). It is up to one of the next patches to fix this and to introduce the SERVICE command in server to server communication. The propagation of services as regular users between servers doesn't limit the functionality of the IRC services and will be the fallback for servers that don't support "real" services propagation in the future. |
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ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
(c)2001-2007 Alexander Barton,
alex@barton.de, http://www.barton.de/
ngIRCd is free software and published under the
terms of the GNU General Public License.
-- README --
I. Introduction
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
ngIRCd is an Open Source server for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which
is developed and published under the terms of the GNU General Public
Licence (URL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html). ngIRCd means "next
generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the
"grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
II. Status
~~~~~~~~~~~
It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviours of the
original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics
specified by the RFCs.
In the meantime ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be
used in real IRC networks.
Implemented IRC-commands are:
ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, HELP, INVITE, ISON,
JOIN, KICK, KILL, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE,
OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, SQUIT,
STATS, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, VERSION, WALLOPS, WHO, WHOIS,
WHOWAS.
III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses
- simple, easy understandable configuration file,
- freely published open-source C source code,
- ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
- wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
IV. Documentation
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
the ngIRCd: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>.
V. Download
~~~~~~~~~~~
The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>; you will find
the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent ("stable")
releases there.
If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not
always stable), then please read the section about "GIT" on the homepage and
the file "doc/GIT.txt" which describes the use of GIT, the version control
system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git.or.cz/).
VI. Bugs
~~~~~~~~
If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
them at the following URL:
<http://ngircd.barton.de/#bugs>
There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.
If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a
mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@arthur.ath.cx> (please see
<http://ngircd.barton.de/#ml> for details).