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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004 12:18:30 -0700, GBloomberg <fin.ack@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've been tasked with building an IRC server for use amongst internal
> employee's. I don't know much about IRC but I've used Gentoo to build
> an interenal firewall and dns server, so I would think building an
> internal IRC server would'nt be too difficult.
>
> Does anyone know of a good "IRC server setup on Gentoo" howto?

Nope, but it shouldn't be too hard to do, especially if you're already
able to set up servers.

> Does anyone have or prefer one IRCdaemon over another?
>
> I would prefer an IRC daemon flavor that a lot of people use and has
> support in the form of an emailing list or IRC channel... Thanks for
> any suggestions.

My personal favourite is unreal (emerge -pv unrealircd;
http://www.unrealircd.com/). It's reasonably advanced though
("Description: aimed to be an advanced, not an easy IRCd"), so may not
exactly be what you're looking for. I've found the support to be good.
:)

Another option is dancer (emerge -pv dancer-ircd;
http://freenode.net/dancer_ircd.shtml), which is the IRC server we use
in the Computer Science Department at my Uni. It's also what Freenode
runs, so there is plenty of support out there.

Either of those should work well for you. :)

Max.

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