Comparison of Internet Relay Chat daemons

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The following tables compare general and technical information including the differences in feature sets between popular IRC daemons. Grey entries in the list represent supposedly unmaintained daemons.

Please see the individual products' articles or websites or the cited references for further information. This article is neither all-inclusive nor necessarily up-to-date.

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[edit] Servers

IRC daemon Creator/network Basis Programming language First public release Latest version (numeric 351) Software license Website
Asuka[1] QuakeNet Dev Team ircu C Unknown 1.2.1 (now replaced by snircd) GPL Unknown
Austhex AustNet Development ircu2.9 C, Scheme Unknown ? (now replaced by inspircd) GPL Unknown
Bahamut[2] DALnet DreamForge, IRCD-Hybrid C 1999[3] bahamut-1.8.6 GPL [2]
bIRCd[4] DAMnet DreamForge C 1999 bIRCd-2.1.0rc4 GPL [3]
beware ircd[5] beware from scratch Delphi Unknown beware1.6 GPL [4]
Charybdis[6] atheme.org (nenolod, jilles, dwr, gxti) ircd-ratbox, IRCD-Hybrid, ircu, ShadowIRCd C 2005 charybdis-3.3.0 GPL/BSD [5]
ConferenceRoom WebMaster Incorporated from scratch C++ 1996 ConferenceRoom/3.5 Proprietary [6]
csircd Comstud from scratch C 1998 csircd-1.14 GPL Unknown
dancer-ircd freenode Hybrid 6 C 1999 ? (replaced by hyperion) GPL Unknown
DreamForge DALnet irc2.8.mu3 C 1994 (dal), 1997? (df) ? (replaced by bahamut) GPL Unknown
Faerion IRC Server[7] vhex DreamForge C, C++ 2003 1.17.7.1[8] GPL [7]
hyperion[9] freenode dancer-ircd 1.0.35+pre2 C 2005 ? (replaced by ircd-seven) GPL [8]
InspIRCd [10] InspIRCd Development Team from scratch C++ 2002 2.0[11] GPL [9]
ignitionServer[12] The Ignition Project Pure-IRCD (VB6 version) Visual Basic 2004 ignitionServer-0.3.6-P1[13] GPL[14] [10]
IRCd[15] Jarkko Oikarinen, IRCnet[16] from scratch C[17] 1988 2.95 GPL [11]
IRCD-Hybrid Hybrid Development Team, EFnet irc2.8 C 1997 7.2.3 GPL [12]
ircd-ratbox Aaron Sethman, Lee Hardy, EFnet Hybrid 7-rc1 C 2002 ircd-ratbox-3.0.7 GPL [13]
ircd-seven freenode charybdis 3.1.x/trunk C — stable GPL [14]
ircu[18] Undernet Coder Committee irc2.7[19] C[20] 1991 u2.10.12.14[21] GPL Unknown
IRCXpro Server IRCXpro, Paul Heinlein IRCPlus Visual Basic 2002 1.2 (build 1572) (now replaced by OfficeIRC) Proprietary Unknown
ithildin[22] Chip Norkus from scratch C 2006 1.1[23] BSD[24] [15]
Nefarious IRCu Evilnet Development, AfterNET ircu2 C 2004 u2.10.11.07+Nefarious(1.2.0)+[2212 2008-08-03] GPL [16]
ngIRCd[25] Alex Barton from scratch C 2001[26] ngircd-17.1[27] GPL [17]
OfficeIRC Server Office IRC Inc, Paul Heinlein from scratch VB.NET 2006 2.2 Proprietary [18]
pircd Jay F Kominek from scratch Perl 1999 ? (now unmaintained) Open Source (custom) [19]
PleXusIRCd Rizon, thaprince, static Hybrid 7.2.3 C 2005 hybrid-7.2.3+plexus-3.0.1(20090612_0-523) GPL [20]
pureIRCd Dennis Fisch aka Diligent from scratch C 2002 Unknown GPL Unknown
IRC server PTlink IRC Software Hybrid 6 C 2001 (v.6) 5.4.0 (now unmaintained) GPL [21]
QuakeIRCd QuakeIRCd Team, Tiburon, blackcomb UnrealIRCd C 2003 (v1.1) ? (now unmaintained) GPL [22]
RockIRCd[28] Mike Chambers from scratch QuickBASIC[29] 2009 1.0.0-testing GPL [23]
ShadowIRCd[30] Taros, jdhore, jilles, nenolod Charybdis[30] C 2003 shadowircd-6.3.1 GPL [24]
snircd QuakeNet ircu2.10.12[31] C[31] Unknown 1.3.4a[1] GPL[31] [25]
solid-ircd Toshi Morita, Juan Baez,Gabriel Baez Bahamut C 2004[32] solid-ircd 3.4.8 GPL [26]
SorIrcd SorceryNet dal4.4.10 and irc2.8.mu3 C 1996 ? (replaced by Charybdis) GPL [27]
Synchronet IRCd[33] Randy E. Sommerfeld from scratch JavaScript 2003 SynchronetIRCd-1.3a(1.151) GPL [28]
TR-IRCd [34] Yusuf Iskenderoglu, Ekim Engin, Dimitris Ginosatiris, Maksut Cagil, Burak Cifter Hybrid 7 and Bahamut C 1999 5.6.1 GPL [29]
UltimateIRCd ShadowRealm Creations DreamForge 2.8 C 2001 3.0.2 [35] (now unmaintained) GPL [30]
UnrealIRCd[36] UnrealIRCd Team EliteIRCd (potvin)[37] C 1999 Unreal3.2.9[38] GPL [31]
Viagra IRCd[39] Chris Schiffner Titan C 2003 1.3.3 (now unmaintained) GPL [32]
WeIRCd Eloxoph IRC Network[40] from scratch C 2007 WeIRCd 0.8.2[41] GPL [33]
NeoIRCd Tom Mcloughlin (Macs/XentOS) charybdis C 2011 NeoIRCd 0.1[42] GPL [34]

[edit] Operating system support

The operating systems the daemons can run on without emulation; also supported event dispatch facilities for network sockets (see IRCd for further information).

IRC daemon Windows DOS Mac OS Linux BSD Solaris HP-UX AIX select() poll() epoll[43] kqueue[44] RT signals[45] /dev/poll[46] Windows IOCP[47] Solaris IOCP[48]
Bahamut No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
bIRCd Yes No Unknown Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Yes Yes No No No No No No
Charybdis No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No Yes
ConferenceRoom Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes No
InspIRCd[49][50] Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes Yes Yes
IRCD[51] Yes No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No
ircd-ratbox Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
ircu No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
ithildin No No No Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown Yes Yes No Yes No No No No
Nefarious IRCu No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
ngIRCd Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
OfficeIRC Server Yes No Yes Yes Yes No No No Unknown Unknown No No No No Yes No
PleXusIRCd No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No
pureIRCd Yes No No No No No No No Yes No No No No No No No
RockIRCd No Yes No No No No No No No No No No No No No No
ShadowIRCd No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes
snircd No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
solid-ircd No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
Synchronet IRCd Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No
UnrealIRCd Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Yes No No No No No No No
WeIRCd Yes No Yes Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown Yes No No No No No No No

[edit] Technology

Various networking and IRC technology implemented to date.

IRC daemon Modularity Remote includes IPv6 Client SSL SSL linking Zip linking Hostmasking, cloaking Services integration (built-in services) LDAP authentication IRCX support SASL support Server protocol
Bahamut Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No No No No TS5 with extensions
bIRCd No No Yes Yes Yes No No No No No No RFC 1459 and TSpre8
beware ircd No No Yes No No No Yes No No No No P10
Charybdis Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes TS6 with extensions
ConferenceRoom No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No Proprietary, binary
InspIRCd Yes[52] Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes No Yes TS6-based Spanning Tree
IRCD No No Yes No No Yes No No No No No RFC 2813 with IDs
IRCD-Hybrid Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes (contrib module) Yes (contrib module) No No No TS6
ircd-ratbox Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No No TS6
ircu No No Yes No No No Yes No No No No P10
ithildin Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Module-dependent
Nefarious IRCu No No No Yes Yes No Yes No No No No P10 with extensions
ngIRCd No No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No RFC 2813
OfficeIRC Server Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Compatible with DreamForge and UnrealIRCd
PleXusIRCd Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No Yes No No TS5/TS6
pureIRCd No No No No No No No No No No No No
RockIRCd No No No No No No Yes No No No No No
ShadowIRCd Yes No Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No Yes TS6 with extensions
snircd No No Yes No No No Yes No No No No P10 with extensions
solid-ircd No No No Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No TS5 with extensions
Synchronet IRCd No No No No No No No No No No No TS5 with extensions
UnrealIRCd Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes No No No No DreamForge/TS5 with extensions
WeIRCd Partial No Yes No No No Yes Yes (module) No No No No

[edit] Features

IRC server features, mostly extensions to RFC 1459. Probably also implementations of RFC 2810, RFC 2811, RFC 2812, RFC 2813, and possibly IRCX.

  • +channels (In early IRCds, these were simply named channels. At least one modern IRCd (IRCD) uses the + prefix for modeless channels, i.e. no modes are supported other than +t, which is forced. Since no user can become a chanop, no topic can be set. 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)
IRC daemon Channel types Halfop support

(+h %)

 Admin/protect support

(+a/+u &/!/*)

 Founder/owner support

(+q ~/.)

 Operator prefixing[53] Advanced operator ACL Operator "levels"[54] vHost via I-line (or equivalent) i18n nicknames[55] RDBMS integration (SQL)
Bahamut # No No No No No No Partial No No
bIRCd # & No No No No No No Partial No No
Charybdis # & No No No No Yes Yes Yes No No
ConferenceRoom # & No No Yes No Yes Yes Yes Partial Partial
InspIRCd # Yes Module Module Module Yes Module Yes Module MySQL, SQLite & PostgreSQL: Authorization, Services Integration, Logging, Operaccess
IRCD # & ! + No No No No Unknown No No No No
IRCD-Hybrid # & Yes No No No No No No No No
ircd-ratbox # & No No No No No No Yes No No
ircu # & No Yes No No Yes No No No No
ithildin # No No No Yes Yes Yes No No
Nefarious IRCu # & Yes No No No Yes No Yes No No
ngIRCd # & + No No No No No No No No No
OfficeIRC Server # %# & %& No Yes Yes Yes Partial Yes Yes Yes Partial
PleXusIRCd # & Yes Yes Yes No No Unknown Yes Unknown No
pureIRCd # No No Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
RockIRCd # No Yes Yes Unknown Unknown Yes No Unknown No
ShadowIRCd # & Yes Yes No No Yes Yes Yes No No
snircd # & No Yes No No Yes No Yes No No
solid-ircd # Yes No No No No No Partial No No
Synchronet IRCd # & No No No No No No No No No
UnrealIRCd # Yes Yes Yes No Third party module[56] Third party module (netadmins)[57] Yes, vhost block in conf iso8859-1/2/7/8-I/9/16, windows-1250/1251, Multibyte MySQL & PostgreSQL: Third party modules [58]
WeIRCd # Yes No No No No No No No SQLite in services module
IRC daemon Connect-flood detection Channel flood controls
basic / advanced		 Join throttling Spamfilter
regexp / glob		 Channel censor
IRCd config / chanop-controlled		 Variable per-channel banlist size Timed bans DNSBL CGI:IRC/WEBIRC host spoofing
Bahamut Yes Yes / No Yes No / No No / No No No No No
bIRCd No No / No No No / No No / No No No No No
Charybdis Yes No / No Yes No / No No / No Yes Yes[citation needed] Yes Yes
ConferenceRoom Yes Yes / Yes Yes No / Yes Partial / No No Partial Yes No
InspIRCd Yes Yes / Yes Yes Yes / Yes Yes / Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
IRCD Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown No
IRCD-Hybrid Yes No / No No No / No No / No No No No Yes (contrib module)
ircd-ratbox Yes No / No No No / No No / No No No No Yes
ircu Yes Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown No No
ithildin Module No / No No No / No No / No No No Unknown Unknown
Nefarious IRCu Yes No / No No Yes / No No / No No No Yes Yes
ngIRCd No No / No No No / No No / No No No No Yes
OfficeIRC Server Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Unknown
PleXusIRCd Yes No / No No No / No No / No No No Unknown Unknown
pureIRCd Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown Unknown
RockIRCd No Yes / No No No No No No No Unknown
ShadowIRCd Yes No / No Yes No / No No / No Yes Yes Yes Yes
solid-ircd Yes Yes / No Yes No / No No / No No No No Unknown
Synchronet IRCd Yes Yes / No Yes No / No No / No No / No No No Unknown
UnrealIRCd yes / NO Yes Yes Yes / No Yes / third party module[59] No No Third party module[60] Yes
WeIRCd Partial No / No No No / No No / No No No No Yes

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ a b The official website for the QuakeNet IRC network
  2. ^ DALnet: Bahamut project page
  3. ^ Linux Help - Bahamut Setup Guide
  4. ^ Official bIRCd website
  5. ^ beware ircd
  6. ^ Jilles' IRC page: charybdis
  7. ^ Faerion - ircd
  8. ^ Browse Faeron Software Components Files on SourceForge.net
  9. ^ freenode: hyperion-ircd
  10. ^ Inspire IRCd - The Stable, High-Performance Modular IRCd
  11. ^ SourceForge.net: InspIRCd - The Modular C++ ircd: Files
  12. ^ The Ignition Project : ignitionServer
  13. ^ The Ignotion Project : Downloads
  14. ^ The Ignition Project | Get The Ignition Project at SourceForge.net
  15. ^ IRCD - the server
  16. ^ IRC history
  17. ^ Source code
  18. ^ Undernet Coder Committee
  19. ^ ServerWatch.com: Dalnet DreamForge Daemon
  20. ^ ircu2.10.12.12 source code (tar.gz)
  21. ^ [1]
  22. ^ Ithildin
  23. ^ Downloads - Ithildhin
  24. ^ Ithildin license file (1.1 branch in repository)
  25. ^ ngIRCd: Next Generation IRC Daemon
  26. ^ Initial ngIRCd git commit
  27. ^ ngIRCd download page
  28. ^ rubbermallet.org: RockIRCd
  29. ^ RockIRCd 1.0.0-testing source (.zip)
  30. ^ a b ShadowIRCd
  31. ^ a b c http://www.quakenet.org/development/releases/snircd.12.10.1.3.4a.tar.gz
  32. ^ SolidIRCd SourceForge Project Page
  33. ^ ircd.js : The Synchronet IRCd Service
  34. ^ TR-IRC Daemon and Services
  35. ^ Browse The Ultimate IRC daemon Files on SourceForge.net
  36. ^ About UnrealIRCd
  37. ^ unrealircd.doc
  38. ^ Download Unreal
  39. ^ Viagra IRCd (Unmaintained/Orphaned)
  40. ^ WeIRCd - the simple & easy IRCd (IRC Daemon)
  41. ^ Index of /weircd/releases/
  42. ^ Index of /neoircd/files
  43. ^ epoll. xmailserver.org. (Linux since 2.6) - I/O event notification facility. Has a much better performance than select() and poll() system calls.
  44. ^ kqueue (FreeBSD since 4.1) - asynchronous event dispatch mechanism.
  45. ^ "POSIX.4 Real Time Signals" (Linux since 2.4) - special class of Linux system signals used for notification of events on file descriptors. Deprecated in favour of epoll.
  46. ^ Acharya, Shridhar (March 2002). "Using the devpoll (/dev/poll) Interface". Sun.com. Archived from the original on 2007-02-02. http://web.archive.org/web/20070202231908/http://access1.sun.com/techarticles/devpoll.html. 
  47. ^ "CreateIoCompletionPort function". Microsoft MSDN Library.
  48. ^ "The Event Completion Framework for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris IOCP)". Sun.com.
  49. ^ "Supported Operating Systems" . InspIRCd.org.
  50. ^ "InspIRCd FAQ - Which socket engines are supported by InspIRCd?". InspIRCd.org.
  51. ^ [ 50 ]
  52. ^ Modules - Inspire IRCd (InspIRCd)
  53. ^ Operator prefixing: The ability for network staff (not channel ops, but ircd opers) to be denoted in a channel with a special prefix.[citation needed]
  54. ^ Operator "levels": protect "higher" opers from being killed and/or z, k, or g-lined by "lower" opers[citation needed]
  55. ^ "Features: nickchars". Vulnscan.org.
  56. ^ "custom coding: RestrictedOper". vulnscan.org.
  57. ^ "Modules". unreal.x-tab.org.
  58. ^ "Custom coding: SQLMod". Vulnscan.org.
  59. ^ "Modules: TextBan". Vulnscan.org.
  60. ^ "Modules: DNSBL Block". UnrealIRCd.com
  • [50]To run on Windows, IRCD/Services should be compiling the program Cgwin. / But the restricted versions Based on the hybrid versions. / The last-released versions require the updated version of MySQL.

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