Wed 3 Jan 2007
I’ve spent the last couple of days at work setting up a new IRC server. We’ve been using a cobbled together BSD server running IRCd-hybrid for the last year and a half,but the old 9GB hard drive died the other day. Since I know Windows a lot better than Unix I set up a new server running UnrealIRCd on Windows2000. UnrealIRC is actually really easy to setup. There’s alot of options in the config file, but they all make sense. The tough part was getting services running.
As with so many things I’ve done at Zombie, I had never worked with an IRC server or a services system before. The programmers have been clammoring for channel services, so I decided to try Anope as it is still being developed and seemed to have the best windows support. This means I’m running two open source applications together, which always creates strange problems. Thankfully Anope is built to work with UnrealIRC, so all the problems were just in figuring out the nuances of each application’s config file. After spending about 5 hours researching and trying different configurations I finally figured out how everything was supposed to be setup, the big key was figuring out that the servername specified in the link section of the UnrealIRC config needed to be the exact same as the servername variable in the Anope config. Once I figured that out everything seems to be working as it should.