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- ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server
- http://ngircd.barton.de/
- (c)2001-2019 Alexander Barton and Contributors.
- ngIRCd is free software and published under the
- terms of the GNU General Public License.
- -- README --
- I. Introduction
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- ngIRCd is a free, portable and lightweight Internet Relay Chat server for
- small or private networks, developed under the GNU General Public License
- (GPL; please see the file COPYING for details). It is simple to configure,
- can cope with dynamic IP addresses, and supports IPv6 as well as SSL. It is
- written from scratch and not based on the original IRCd.
- The name ngIRCd means next generation IRC daemon, which is a little bit
- exaggerated: lightweight Internet Relay Chat server most probably would be a
- better name :-)
- Please see the INSTALL document for installation and upgrade information!
- II. Status
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be used as daemon in
- real world IRC networks.
- It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviors of the
- original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics
- specified by the RFCs that are used by existing clients.
- III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?)
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- - Well arranged (lean) configuration file.
- - Simple to build, install, configure, and maintain.
- - Supports IPv6 and SSL.
- - Can use PAM for user authentication.
- - Lots of popular user and channel modes are implemented.
- - Supports "cloaking" of users.
- - No problems with servers that have dynamic IP addresses.
- - Freely available, modern, portable and tidy C source.
- - Wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX,
- IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
- - ngIRCd is being actively developed since 2001.
- IV. Documentation
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- More documentation can be found in the "doc/" directory and the homepage of
- 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.
- Visit our source code repository at GitHub if you are interested in the
- latest development version: <https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd>.
- VI. Problems, Bugs, Patches
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- Please don't hesitate to contact us if you encounter problems:
- - On IRC: <irc://irc.barton.de/ngircd>
- - Via the mailing list: <ngircd-ml@ngircd.barton.de>
- See <http://ngircd.barton.de/support.php> for details.
- If you find bugs in ngIRCd (which will be there most probably ...), please
- report them to our issue tracker at GitHub:
- - Bug tracker: <https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/issues>
- - Patches, "pull requests": <https://github.com/ngircd/ngircd/pulls>
- There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too.
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