Recommended IRC server (ircd) for a small site? [closed]

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The situation:

I want to play around with IRC bots as general communications interfaces to other code I am investigating. The server hardware would be old and low-memory, but running on a relatively up-to-date Debian GNU/Linux install. I don't expect more than a hundred users at a time, tops, and probably in the single-digits most of the time. The interfaces are more of interest here than the server itself, so I'd prefer something relatively simple to maintain over something with a huge number of configuration and tuning options more useful to a larger site.

Referencing the Wikipedia comparison and the Google PageRank list against the available package list for Debian comes up with the following top contenders: Undernet (ircd-ircu), Ratbox (ircd-ratbox), and Inspire (inspircd). Unfortunately, I can't find any serious comparisons of them, so I'm hoping that asking here will provide a faster solution than just trying them one at a time until something frustrates me enough to move.

Wappes answered 27/9, 2008 at 17:17 Comment(0)

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During the past couple days I have been coding a bot with Python and IRCLib. Since I am coding the communication interface I needed to see the raw data transfered between the server and the client. So, I needed an IRC server which would support that. At first I was using IRCD, and it was totally fine. But after a while I realized that I was missing some features that IRCD did not have since it's outdated. So, after further research I found ngIRCd.

I compiled it from source with those options "--enable-sniffer --enable-debug". Now when I want to see the information sent between my bot and my client I only need to start the server with the -n and -s option. Like that : ngircd -n -s

Here is the website of the server : http://ngircd.barton.de/

Cleanly answered 27/9, 2008 at 17:18 Comment(0)

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Unreal IRCd is full featured if a little complex on the setup.

Serrato answered 27/9, 2008 at 17:25 Comment(3)

The groups I've chatted with always seemed to use Unreal. – Kibitz 27/9, 2008 at 17:29

I second Unreal as it's very feature-rich. I don't know how it scales or how secure it is, but it sounds like he won't have any of those issues anyway. My second vote [or true first] would go to ratbox. – Osculum 27/9, 2008 at 17:46

Thanks, Till. Can you say more about why you would go with ratbox? There's no package for Unreal on Debian, so I'd have to roll my own for that (which I can do, but it's extra work), and I'm not enthusiastic about the 'complex on the setup' part, either. – Wappes 28/9, 2008 at 16:26

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During the past couple days I have been coding a bot with Python and IRCLib. Since I am coding the communication interface I needed to see the raw data transfered between the server and the client. So, I needed an IRC server which would support that. At first I was using IRCD, and it was totally fine. But after a while I realized that I was missing some features that IRCD did not have since it's outdated. So, after further research I found ngIRCd.

I compiled it from source with those options "--enable-sniffer --enable-debug". Now when I want to see the information sent between my bot and my client I only need to start the server with the -n and -s option. Like that : ngircd -n -s

Here is the website of the server : http://ngircd.barton.de/

Cleanly answered 27/9, 2008 at 17:18 Comment(0)

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Unreal IRCd is what I finally picked for hosting an IRCD. Why? Halfop, admin/protect, founder/owner, advanced operator acl, vHost via i:line and etc...

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Iodoform answered 27/9, 2008 at 19:45 Comment(0)

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Use XMPP instead. IRC is not very well designed for your situation; it can be made to work, but it is a big pain.

Mentalism answered 27/9, 2008 at 17:53 Comment(1)

harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/xmpp – Floatfeed 3/2, 2014 at 15:6

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