UnrealIRCd

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UnrealIRCd
Stable release
3.2.7 [1] / July 14, 2007
Preview release
3.3 [2]
PlatformLinux, BSD, MacOS X, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows [3]
TypeIRCd
LicenseGPL [4]
Websitewww.unrealircd.com

UnrealIRCd is an open source IRC daemon originally based off of DALnet's DreamForge IRCd and EliteIRCd.[3][5][6][7] Since development started on UnrealIRCd, around May 1999,[3] many new features have been added, modified, some of which include advanced security features[8] and bug fixes.

According to SearchIRC's statistics, UnrealIRCd is used on the largest number of servers.[9] The largest IRC networks,[10] however, do not use it[11][12][13][14][15] because they have their own IRCd's which they maintain themselves,[citation needed] so it may not necessarily be the IRC daemon with the largest number of users.[citation needed]

History

UnrealIRCd was originally based off of EliteIRCd,[7] which was founded from DALnet's DreamForge IRCd.[16] However, since the UnrealIRCd team rewrote most, if not all, of the EliteIRCd code,[16] it is commonly referred to as a fork of DreamForge[3][6] rather than EliteIRCd. UnrealIRCd started out as the IRCd for the mp3fans.net IRC network.[16] Later it was also used on the global-irc.net IRC network.[16]

About a year later, codemastr, now a respected UnrealIRCd developer[citation needed], joined the UnrealIRCd developer team.[16]

Later, Syzop, also currently a respected developer[citation needed], joined the developer team.[16]

As of May 24, 2008, nearly a decade after development first started, in May 1999, UnrealIRCd has come from EliteIRCd, a 15-year-old's IRCd,[16] to being in use on more than 1,500 servers, more than any other IRCd.[16][9]

Future

On July 13, 2007 Stskeeps announced that the future Unreal4.0 would be a fork of InspIRCd.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b Stskeeps. "Strategy Change, Unreal3.2.7 Release, New Website" (HTML). UnrealIRCd Forums. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  2. ^ nate. "Unreal 3.3" (HTML). UnrealIRCd Forums. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  3. ^ a b c d "About UnrealIRCd" (HTML). UnrealIRCd's official website. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  4. ^ "UnrealIRCd License" (TEXT). UnrealIRCd. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  5. ^ Dalila (2006-12-15). "DALnet History" (HTML). DALnet's website. Retrieved 2008-05-21. {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ a b "IRCd:DreamForge" (HTML). Anope wiki. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  7. ^ a b codemastr. "codemastr on the origins of UnrealIRCd" (HTML). SearchIRC Forums. Retrieved 2008-05-23.
  8. ^ Piccard, Paul (2005). Sachs (ed.). Securing IM and P2P Applications for the Enterprise. Syngress. ISBN 1-59749-017-2. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  9. ^ a b "IRCD version overview" (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  10. ^ "The largest IRC networks" (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  11. ^ "QuakeNet" (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  12. ^ "Undernet" (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  13. ^ "IRCNet" (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  14. ^ "EFnet" (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  15. ^ "freenode" (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved 2008-05-21.
  16. ^ a b c d e f g h Stskeeps. irc.unrealircd.com, #unreal-support (IRC). UnrealIRCd's IRC Support Channel. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.

See also

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