ngIRCd - Next Generation IRC Server http://ngircd.barton.de/ (c)2001-2012 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~ It is not the goal of ngIRCd to implement all the nasty behaviours of the original ircd, but to implement most of the useful commands and semantics specified by the RFCs. In the meantime ngIRCd should be quite feature complete and stable to be used in real IRC networks. Implemented IRC-commands are: ADMIN, AWAY, CHANINFO, CONNECT, DIE, DISCONNECT, ERROR, GLINE, HELP, INFO, INVITE, ISON, JOIN, KICK, KILL, KLINE, LINKS, LIST, LUSERS, MODE, MOTD, NAMES, NICK, NJOIN, NOTICE, OPER, PART, PASS, PING, PONG, PRIVMSG, QUIT, REHASH, RESTART, SERVER, SERVICE, SERVLIST, SQUERY, SQUIT, STATS, SUMMON, TIME, TOPIC, TRACE, USER, USERHOST, USERS, VERSION, WALLOPS, WEBIRC, WHO, WHOIS, WHOWAS. III. Features (or: why use ngIRCd?) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - well arranged (lean) configuration file - simple to build/install, configure and maintain - supports IPv6 and SSL - 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 the ngIRCd: . V. Download ~~~~~~~~~~~ The homepage of the ngIRCd is: ; you will find the newest information about the ngIRCd and the most recent ("stable") releases there. If you are interested in the latest development versions (which are not always stable), then please read the section about "GIT" on the homepage and the file "doc/GIT.txt" which describes the use of GIT, the version control system used by ngIRCd (homepage: http://git-scm.com/). VI. Bugs ~~~~~~~~ If you find bugs in the ngIRCd (which might be there :-), please report them at the following URL: There you can read about known bugs and limitations, too. If you have critics, patches or something else, please feel free to post a mail to the ngIRCd mailing list: (please see for details) or join the ngIRCd IRC channel: .