ngircd
★ 580A self-hosted alternative to Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord
About
ngIRCd is a lightweight IRC daemon intended for small or private networks. It is written in C, distributed under the GNU GPL, and aims to provide a simple, portable server that is easy to configure...
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Features
- IRC server
- single-node or networked operation
- IPv6 support
- SSL/TLS-protected links
- PAM authentication
- IDENT requests
- character set conversion
- channel and user modes
- user cloaking
- support for dynamic IP addresses
Details
- Last Updated
- Sep 28, 2026
- Created
- Jan 3, 2012
- Install Methods
- sourcepackage-manager
- Requirements
- C compilerPAM (optional)IPv6 (optional)SSL/TLS (optional)
- Authentication
- local
- Runtime / Stack
- Cdeb
- Privacy & Independence
- No Cloud RequiredOffline Capable
- User Model
- Multi-User
- Deployment
Deployment: Container image available
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