Internet Relay Chat daemon
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An IRCd, short for Internet Relay Chat daemon, is server software that implements the IRC protocol, enabling people to talk to each other via the Internet (exchanging textual messages in real time). It is distinct from an IRC bot that connects outbound to an IRC channel.
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- History
- Sidestream versions
- Features
- Ports
- Connections
- TLS (Transport Layer Security)
- IPv4 and IPv6
- Clustering
- IRCX
- P10
- TS6
- Configuration
- Jupe
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An IRCd, short for Internet Relay Chat daemon, is server software that implements the IRC protocol, enabling people to talk to each other via the Internet (exchanging textual messages in real time). It is distinct from an IRC bot that connects outbound to an IRC channel.
The server listens to connections from IRC clients on a set of TCP ports. When the server is part of an IRC network, it also keeps one or more established connections to other servers/daemons.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Internet Relay Chat daemon” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.