From owner-freebsd-isp Tue May 28 9:12:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from front1.chartermi.net (24.213.60.123.up.mi.chartermi.net [24.213.60.123]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6EB637B404 for ; Tue, 28 May 2002 09:12:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [24.247.40.60] (HELO danrc) by front1.chartermi.net (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 3.5.3) with SMTP id 107043166 for freebsd-isp@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 May 2002 12:12:17 -0400 Message-ID: <002f01c20662$6ffba680$0b01a8c0@fear.wrath.net> From: "Brian" To: References: <3CF3A22E.9040606@digitaldaemon.com> Subject: Re: IRC server choices & setup Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 12:12:17 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jan Knepper" To: "FreeBSD ISP" Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 11:28 AM Subject: IRC server choices & setup > Did anyone of you ever setup an IRC server? > If so, which would you prefer? Well, Hybrid and Bahamut are probably the best two out there. Undernet's IRCd (does it even have a cool name like the rest?) is pretty popular too. There are all sorts of variations out there based on these main three. For example, Bahamut is actually a blending of dreamforge and hybrid but isn't much like either one. I'd recommend DALnet's daemon (Bahamut - http://bahamut.dal.net/) because the support is out there and it's well documented anyway. The latest official release (mandatory upgrade for DALnet's servers) is 1.4.34 and was released about a week ago (ftp.dal.net). On the Bahamut site they tell you all sorts of things and how to install. They even used to have several tutorials on how to secure FreeBSD for IRCd and how to modify FreeBSD to get the most out of the daemon. I can't find all of them but I have found this one http://www.dal.net/admin/vote/seceval.php3 which is relatively new. If you search around you might find some different ones prepared by other DALnet admins/coders. On another note, as you probably know, running an IRC server opens a large can of worms. Unless it's completely private it will get attacked regularly. A lot of people don't plan for this. > Thanks! > Jan -Brian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message