installing_irc_at_home
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| installing_irc_at_home [2020/07/04 01:03] – [inspircd.conf] waxphilosophic | installing_irc_at_home [2020/07/04 01:28] – [inspircd.conf] waxphilosophic | ||
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| Again, this is all just a made-up tribute to the FreeBSD mascot. You can enter whatever you like for your set-up. | Again, this is all just a made-up tribute to the FreeBSD mascot. You can enter whatever you like for your set-up. | ||
| + | === PORT CONFIGURATION === | ||
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| + | Most of the PORT CONFIGURATION section can be left as it is. However, the last two lines are used to open ports allowing other IRC servers to connect to ours. In a home LAN environment, | ||
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| + | So, find these lines: | ||
| + | |||
| + | < | ||
| + | <bind address="" | ||
| + | <bind address=" | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Comment them by adding a hash as the first character so they look like this: | ||
| + | |||
| + | < | ||
| + | #<bind address="" | ||
| + | #<bind address=" | ||
| + | </ | ||
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| === CONNECTIONS CONFIGURATION === | === CONNECTIONS CONFIGURATION === | ||
| - | No changes are needed for the PORT CONFIGURATION, | + | After commenting out the last two lines of PORT CONFIGURATION, |
| The reason for this is entirely because of DNS. Unless you are running a robust DNS infrastructure on your LAN, chances are good that your ISP's router (the typical home LAN DNS server) will not do reverse look-ups. Setting resolvehostnames=" | The reason for this is entirely because of DNS. Unless you are running a robust DNS infrastructure on your LAN, chances are good that your ISP's router (the typical home LAN DNS server) will not do reverse look-ups. Setting resolvehostnames=" | ||
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| It needs to be uncommented if you want to enable users to gain administrative privileges. If you don't remove the leading hash, any attempt to use the /OPER command will result in the message " | It needs to be uncommented if you want to enable users to gain administrative privileges. If you don't remove the leading hash, any attempt to use the /OPER command will result in the message " | ||
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| + | It should look like this when you're done: | ||
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| + | < | ||
| + | <include file=" | ||
| + | </ | ||
| === Sections left as default === | === Sections left as default === | ||
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| --- | --- | ||
| > email=" | > email=" | ||
| + | 225, | ||
| + | < <bind address="" | ||
| + | < <bind address=" | ||
| + | --- | ||
| + | > #<bind address="" | ||
| + | > #<bind address=" | ||
| 313c313 | 313c313 | ||
| < resolvehostnames=" | < resolvehostnames=" | ||
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| --- | --- | ||
| > resolvehostnames=" | > resolvehostnames=" | ||
| + | 497c497 | ||
| + | < #< | ||
| + | --- | ||
| + | > <include file=" | ||
| 1044c1044 | 1044c1044 | ||
| < #< | < #< | ||
installing_irc_at_home.txt · Last modified: 2020/07/13 01:01 by waxphilosophic