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# Ergonomadic
Ergonomadic (anagram of "go IRC daemon") is an IRC daemon written from scratch
in Go. Pull requests and issues are welcome.
Ergonomadic is an IRC daemon written from scratch in Go. Pull requests and
issues are welcome. Discuss it here or on Freenode in [#ergonomadic][irc].
Discussion at:
* host/port: irc.skub.club:6697, use SSL
* password: smellyoulater
* #darwin
## Some Features
# Features
- follows the RFCs where possible
- UTF-8 nick and channel names
- [gcfg][gcfg] gitconfig-style configuration
- server password (PASS command)
- channels with most standard modes
- IRC operators (OPER command)
- haproxy [PROXY protocol][proxy-proto] header for hostname setting
- passwords stored in [bcrypt][go-crypto] format
- channels that [persist][go-sqlite] between restarts (+P)
- messages are queued in the same order to all connected clients
* follows the RFCs where possible
* UTF-8 nick and channel names
* [gcfg](https://code.google.com/p/gcfg/) gitconfig-style configuration
* server password (PASS command)
* channels with most standard modes
* IRC operators (OPER command)
* haproxy [PROXY protocol][proxy-proto] header for hostname setting
* passwords stored in [bcrypt][go-crypto] format
* channels that [persist][go-sqlite] between restarts (+P)
* messages are queued in the same order to all connected clients
## Users
If anyone is running and using this software, I'd love to link to you here with
any details you deem appropriate.
## Why?
I wanted to learn Go.
## What's with the name?
"Ergonomadic" is an anagram of "Go IRC Daemon".
## What about SSL/TLS support?
# What about SSL/TLS support?
Go has a not-yet-verified-as-safe TLS 1.2 implementation. Sadly, many popular
IRC clients will negotiate nothing newer than SSLv2. If you want to use SSL to
protect traffic, I recommend using [stunnel][stunnel] version 4.56 with
haproxy's [PROXY protocol][proxy-proto]. This will allow the server to get the
client's original addresses for hostname lookups.
protect traffic, I recommend using
[stunnel](https://www.stunnel.org/index.html) version 4.56 with haproxy's
[PROXY protocol][proxy-proto]. This will allow the server to get the client's
original addresses for hostname lookups.
## What about federation?
# What about federation?
IRC federation solves a problem that was more likely to occur on the internet of
1991 than today. We are exploring alternatives to federation that avoid nickname
and channel sync issues created during netsplits.
## Installation
# Installation
```sh
go get
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ergonomadic initdb -conf ergonomadic.conf
```
## Configuration
# Configuration
See the example [`ergonomadic.conf`](ergonomadic.conf). Passwords are base64-encoded bcrypted byte
strings. You can generate them with the `genpasswd` subcommand.
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ergonomadic genpasswd 'hunter2!'
```
## Running the Server
# Running the server
```sh
ergonomadic run -conf ergonomadic.conf
```
## IRC Documentation
# Credits
- [RFC 1459: Internet Relay Chat Protocol](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1459)
- [RFC 2811: IRC Channel Management](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2811)
- [RFC 2812: IRC Client Protocol](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2812)
- [RFC 2813: IRC Server Protocol](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2813)
- [IRC/2 Numeric List](https://www.alien.net.au/irc/irc2numerics.html)
* Jeremy Latt, creator, <https://github.com/jlatt>
* Edmund Huber, maintainer, <https://github.com/edmund-huber>
* Niels Freier, added WebSocket support, <https://github.com/stumpyfr>
* apologies to anyone I forgot.
[conf]: blob/master/ergonomadic.conf
[gcfg]: https://code.google.com/p/gcfg/
[go-crypto]: http://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/go.crypto
[go-sqlite]: https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3
[irc]: irc://chat.freenode.net/#ergonomadic
[proxy-proto]: http://haproxy.1wt.eu/download/1.5/doc/proxy-protocol.txt
[stunnel]: https://www.stunnel.org/index.html