Help! I would like someone to take a look at my irc settings and tell
me what I am doing wrong. I am tryin to set up a basic IRC server to
be used as a chat room on our website. We will be using a java client
which is automatically configured to connect to the server.
I installed IRCD from source. I created the ircd.conf file and ircd
appears to start sucessfully. It's running under an ircd account and
the group ID and user ID is set up for it.
I believe I am missing something in the conf file that is preventing
the server from working.
I'll just list the active lines in the ircd.conf file below:
# A: [MANDATORY]. This line lists your administrative information
# (contact address, etc). To view this information, /admin (server) will
# show it to you.
#
# A:<Your Name/Location>:<Your E-Mail Addr>:<other info>::<network name>
# Note that <network name> *must* be one word.
#
A:Alan Owen, Hermon School Department:Daemon
<Alan_Owen@brittany-snow.com>:IRC Server::IRCnet
# P: [MANDATORY]. This field allows the server to listen on various ports
# for connections. Any internet domain port that is below 1024 means the
# ircd has to be run as root, or from inetd. The server can listen to ports
# in the UNIX domain or the internet domain. If you wish to create a port
# in the UNIX domain you must compile with UNIXPORT defined in config.h.
#
# P:<YOUR Internet IP#>:<*>::<Port>:
# P:<Directory>:<*>:<*>:<Port>:
#
# Note that it's a good idea to open some more ports than 6667 for
# server-server connections and local clients in case some running wild
# client blocks the default 6667.
#
# The default, an internet domain socket on port 6667 listening on all
# ip addresses of the machine running ircd
#P::::6667:
#
# an internet domain socket listening on port 6668 on address 206.252.192.20
# (again useful if you're running virtual interfaces)
P:66.186.176.230:::6667:
#
# This line is an example of a UNIX domain socket in /tmp
P:/tmp/.ircd:*::6668:
# This would allow access for any client reaching this line which doesn't
# already have at least one connection to the net. if you run an open server
# in a net this might be the right choice, talk to your uplinks first anyway.
# resolving clients matching this line would be shown as user@host since
# the field <TARGET Hosts NAME> is empty.
# Note listing this i: line first, it will be checked *last*, meaning it is
# the "fall-through".
i:*@*::::
# O:<TARGET Host NAME>:<Password>:<Nickname>:<Port>:<Class>
#
# If the person in "Nickname" is not coming from the hostname defined in
# the first field then the person will get the error message "No O: lines
# for your host".
#
# Note that you don't need to use 'Nickname' to become operator, if you're
# using some other nick at that moment '/oper Nickname' will do also.
#
#O:*.bu.edu:Zaphod:Trillian::10
O:*:(operator access password removed for security, but exists in conf file):*::*
All the other options in the conf file to my knowledge don't apply to
me because I'm not acting as a "hub" or a "leaf". I'm trying to run as
an independent IRC server.
Running on Fedora Core I kernel 2.4.22-1.2188.nptlsmp
IRC Version 2.11.0a8
If we need to, we can both schedule a time and connect to the server
via ssh and redo the configuration together, which I will pay an
additional $20 to do if it's neccisary. |
