The following tables compare general and technical information including the differences in feature sets between popular IRCds. Please see the individual products' websites for further information. This article is neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up-to-date. An IRCd (Internet Relay Chat daemon) is a computer program to create an IRC server on which people can talk to each other via the Internet. ...

General information

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A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ...

Operating system support

The operating systems the daemons can run on without emulation. Also supported socket engines (see IRCd for further information). An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... An IRCd (Internet Relay Chat daemon) is a computer program to create an IRC server on which people can talk to each other via the Internet. ...

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Technology

Various networking and IRC technology implemented to date.

Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks. ... Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet. ... Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet. ... zlib is an open-source, cross-platform data compression library. ... In computer networking, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP (IPA: ), is a networking protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP. A directory is a set of information with similar attributes organized in a logical and hierarchical manner. ... IRCX (Internet Relay Chat eXtensions) was and is a working-draft by Microsoft to extend the IRC protocol. ... Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for authentication and authorization in Internet protocols. ... Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. ... Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is a network layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks. ... Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet. ... Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS), its successor, are cryptographic protocols which provide secure communications on the Internet. ... zlib is an open-source, cross-platform data compression library. ... In computer networking, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, or LDAP (IPA: ), is a networking protocol for querying and modifying directory services running over TCP/IP. A directory is a set of information with similar attributes organized in a logical and hierarchical manner. ... IRCX (Internet Relay Chat eXtensions) was and is a working-draft by Microsoft to extend the IRC protocol. ... Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for authentication and authorization in Internet protocols. ...

Features

IRC server features, mostly extensions to RFC 1459. Probably also implementations of RFC 2810, RFC 2811, RFC 2812, RFC 2813, and possibly IRCX. IRCX (Internet Relay Chat eXtensions) was and is a working-draft by Microsoft to extend the IRC protocol. ...

• +channels (In early IRCds, these were simply named channels. At least one modern IRCd (IRCD) uses the + prefix for modeless channels, ie no chanops and channel mode forced to +nt. This is described in RFC 2811.)
• #channels ("+channels" were later replaced with "#channels" in version 2.7, numeric channels were removed entirely and channel bans (mode +b) were implemented.)
• &channels (irc2.8, those that exist only on the current server, rather than the entire network)
•  !channels (irc2.10, those that are theoretically safe from suffering from the many ways that a user could exploit a channel by "riding a netsplit"; IRCds using timestamping provide (most of) this functionality on #channels)
• %#channels (#channels whose name are in UTF-8 for IRCX)
• %&channels (&channels whose name are in UTF-8 for IRCX)
• %!channels (!channels whose name are in UTF-8 for IRCX)

In computer security, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. ... In computing, a regular expression (abbreviated as regexp or regex, with plural forms regexps, regexes, or regexen) is a string that describes or matches a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... Microsoft Exchange Server is a messaging and collaborative software product developed by Microsoft. ... In computer security, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. ... In computing, a regular expression (abbreviated as regexp or regex, with plural forms regexps, regexes, or regexen) is a string that describes or matches a set of strings, according to certain syntax rules. ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...

Notes

See also

• IRCd
• IRC services
• Internet Relay Chat
• IRCX
• Comparison of IRC clients
• Comparison of IRC services
• Comparison of instant messaging clients
• Comparison of instant messaging protocols

An IRCd (Internet Relay Chat daemon) is a computer program to create an IRC server on which people can talk to each other via the Internet. ... IRC services is a common name for a set of features implemented in most modern Internet Relay Chat networks. ... Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is a form of real-time Internet chat or synchronous conferencing. ... IRCX (Internet Relay Chat eXtensions) was and is a working-draft by Microsoft to extend the IRC protocol. ... This is a comparison of Internet Relay Chat clients. ... The following tables compare general and technical information including the differences in feature sets between various IRC services packages. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of instant messaging clients. ... The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of instant messaging protocols. ...

External links

• IRCd features compared to InspIRCd
• History of IRC
• IRCD distribution
• IRC numerics and modes from major IRCds