ngIRCd project is an Open Source server for the Internet Relay Chat (IRC). ngIRCd means "next generation IRC daemon", it's written from scratch and not deduced from the "grandfather of IRC daemons", the daemon of the IRCNet.
Installation:
./configure
make
make install
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Here are some key features of "ngIRCd":
· no problems with servers which have dynamic IP addresses
· simple, easy understandable configuration file,
· freely published open-source C source code,
· ngIRCd will be developed on in the future.
· wide field of supported platforms, including AIX, A/UX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Mac OS X, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and Windows with Cygwin.
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· The manual pages and documentation have been updated.
· A bug in the DNS error handling code that could prevent the daemon from establishing new server-links has been fixed.
· Support for numeric 329 "channel creation time" has been added.