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Internet Relay Chat is a realtime group text messaging protocol.

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IRC server for Windows?

I would like to run an IRC server for users of my LAN, and my best option would be to do so on a Windows XP box. Is there a decent Windows/Cygwin IRC server that you have used and would recommend? If so, any configuration pointers would also be…
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How can I configure a private (friends only) IRC Server?

I am trying to setup an IRC server on my machine for a bunch of friends and me to use. This is an ubuntu box and I have installed dancer-ircd and dancer-services and gotten everything up and running according to the Ubuntu Docs. I would like to now…
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Send message to IRC channel from bash

I have installed ircd-hybrid on my Ubuntu Server (192.168.1.2, example.com). We use #teamchannel to communicate inside the team. The question is: how can I send some short message from example.com to #teamchannel from the bash script? e.g.…
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Best lightweight linux IRC server for a team

I'm looking for suggestions for an extremely lightweight IRC server for linux. It does not need a bunch of features or bloat. It's is for just our internal team (50- people), and small footprint is important. I've been looking at InspireIRC, but…
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Why do hosting companies regularly disallow IRC?

IRC is a handy tool at all sorts of levels: Team communication User community participation Building customer service chat bots on an established protocol For these reasons and more I've come to love irssi+screen. Why do hosting companies love to…
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How to set up a IRC server that logs all messages?

I want to set up a corporate IRC server to use for project discussions. How can I make the IRC server keep a archive of all messages that are sent through the server? I want the messages available for browsing (also preferably searchable) over HTTP…
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Why does data sit in Send-Q? TCP sessions freezing

Issue I run an IRC server for 20-50 users. We sometimes have issues with messages not arriving in a timely fashion or at all. After some packet captures we determined that messages sit in the server's "Send-Q". When a message doesn't arrive I'll…
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irc2-ircd NickServ and ChanServ

I just set up an IRC server on my laptop for the local network. however, ChanServ and NickServ don't seem to be installed/available. How might I get them?
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Require authentication for IRC connections (InspIRCd)

We're trying to move our team chat from Skype to a private IRC server (InspIRCd) and we need to require some sort of authentication to prevent public access. I know we could have a global server password but that doesn't allow us to control who has…
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Matrix Synapse matrix-appservice-irc messages only travel from IRC to Matrix

My irc bridge has connected the rooms i wanted, except messages are only passed from irc to matrix! Also the matrix[m] users are not appearing in the irc chatroom. Here are my configs: $ cat config.yaml # Configuration specific to AS registration.…
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Remote access of Linux over IRC

I have been tasked with setting up and supporting some computers for some people who have sociological problems. Troubled teens/adults and the like. They need computers to do very basic tasks like web browse, but they know little about computers and…
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What's the most stable IRCD?

In general I'm looking for an opinion on what's the most stable (and secure) battle tested IRCD out there that's still actively maintained.
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Switch from Skype to IRC

In our company (web company, 35 people, engineering and business, OS X clients, linux servers), we're evaluating alternatives to Skype which we use mostly for group and user-to-user chat. I've looked into IRC but saw two problems: when my IRC…
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Only tunnel certain applications via OpenVPN

I've purchased a VPN solution, it works correctly when I have "redirect-gateway def1" in the configuration file (routing all traffic through the VPN). However when I remove that line from the configuration file, I am still able to ping-out of the…
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How to offer searchable IRC logs?

How can I offer indexed, searchable (full text search) IRC channel logs to my users? Also nice to have would be that users logging on to the channel could get a recap of what they missed since their last logon. Are there bots that provide this…
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