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  1. ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
  2. http://ngircd.barton.de/
  3. (c)2001-2012 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
  4. ngIRCd is free software and published under the
  5. terms of the GNU General Public License.
  6. -- README --
  7. I. Introduction
  8. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  9. ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for
  10. small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License
  11. (GPL; please see the file COPYING for details). It is simple to configure,
  12. can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and supports IPv6 as well as SSL. It is
  13. written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd.
  14. The name ngIRCd means next generation IRC daemon, which is a little bit
  15. exaggerated: lightweight Internet Relay Chat server most probably would be a
  16. better name :-)
  17. Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
  18. II. Status
  19. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  20. It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviours of the
  21. original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics
  22. specified by the RFCs.
  23. In the meantime ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be
  24. used in real IRC networks.
  25. Implemented IRC-commands are:
  26. ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, GLINE, HELP, INFO,
  27. INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, KLINE, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD,
  28. NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT,
  29. REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, SERVICE, SERVLIST, SQUERY, SQUIT, STATS, SUMMON,
  30. TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, USERS, VERSION, WALLOPS, WEBIRC, WHO,
  31. WHOIS, WHOWAS.
  32. III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
  33. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  34. - well arranged (lean) configuration file
  35. - simple to build/install, configure and maintain
  36. - supports IPv6 and SSL
  37. - no problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses
  38. - freely available, modern, portable and tidy C-source
  39. - wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
  40. IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
  41. - ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001.
  42. IV. Documentation
  43. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  44. More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
  45. the ngIRCd: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>.
  46. V. Download
  47. ~~~~~~~~~~~
  48. The homepage of the ngIRCd is: <http://ngircd.barton.de/>; you will find
  49. the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent ("stable")
  50. releases there.
  51. If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not
  52. always stable), then please read the section about "GIT" on the homepage and
  53. the file "doc/GIT.txt" which describes the use of GIT, the version control
  54. system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git-scm.com/).
  55. VI. Bugs
  56. ~~~~~~~~
  57. If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report
  58. them at the following URL:
  59. <http://ngircd.barton.de/bugtracker.php>
  60. There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.
  61. If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a
  62. mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: <ngircd-ml@arthur.barton.de> (please see
  63. <http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php#ml> for details) or join the ngIRCd
  64. IRC channel: <irc://irc.barton.de/ngircd>.