UnrealIRCd
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 A screenshot of UnrealIRCd running on Windows XP |
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| Latest release | 3.2.7 [1] / July 14, 2007 |
| Preview release | 3.3 [2] |
| Platform | Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows [3] |
| Genre | IRCd |
| License | GPL [4] |
| Website | www.unrealircd.com |
UnrealIRCd is an open source IRC daemon which was originally a fork 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 IRC servers.[9] The largest IRC networks,[10] however, do not use it.[11][12][13][14][15]
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[edit] History
UnrealIRCd was originally based on 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, currently an UnrealIRCd developer,[17] joined the UnrealIRCd developer team.[16]
Later, Syzop, also currently a developer,[17] 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]
[edit] Future
On July 13, 2007 Stskeeps announced that the future Unreal4.0 would be a fork of InspIRCd.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ a b Stskeeps. Strategy Change, Unreal3.2.7 Release, New Website (HTML). UnrealIRCd Forums. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ nate. Unreal 3.3 (HTML). UnrealIRCd Forums. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
- ^ a b c d About UnrealIRCd (HTML). UnrealIRCd's official website. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ UnrealIRCd License (TEXT). UnrealIRCd. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ Dalila; drosdow (2006-12-15). DALnet History (HTML). DALnet's website. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ a b IRCd:DreamForge (HTML). Anope wiki. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ a b codemastr. codemastr on the origins of UnrealIRCd (HTML). SearchIRC Forums. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
- ^ Piccard, Paul; Baskin, Edwards, Spillman (November 2005). in Sachs: Securing IM and P2P Applications for the Enterprise. Syngress. ISBN 1-59749-017-2.
- ^ a b IRCD version overview (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ The largest IRC networks (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ QuakeNet (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ Undernet (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ IRCNet (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ EFnet (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ freenode (HTML). SearchIRC. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
- ^ a b c d e f g h Stskeeps, Lead Developer. irc.unrealircd.com, #unreal-support (IRC). UnrealIRCd's IRC Support Channel. Retrieved on 2008-05-23.
- ^ a b UnrealIRCd Staff/Contributers (HTML). UnrealIRCd website. Retrieved on 2008-05-29.
