[ale] irc server on intranet

[Collin Pruitt]

On 2/28/2012 11:13 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:
> Friends:
>
> I would like to setup an IRC server on our intranet.  Has anyone in 
> this mailing list done it ?  Are there generic guidelines for this ?
>
> -Narahari
>

I like IRC. I still use it regularly as well, in addition to helping run 
a IRC network. However, IRC doesn't have much use unless you're planning 
on running a network similar to the ones that already exist (open, 
unmoderated), or you want to do some testing. There are better solutions 
for intranet communications. Take a look at Jabber, or Bonjour, or any 
of the many other solutions.

If you're still determined to do this, then I could walk you through the 
steps off-list on setting up a IRC server of your flavor of choice 
(ircd-hybrid, Unreal, ircd-seven [what freenode runs], etc). It's not 
that it's especially hard, it's just that there's a lot of places where 
it could go wrong and IRC servers are *extremely* picky about that.