Ergonomadic

Ergonomadic is an IRC daemon written from scratch in Go.

Some Features

• follows the RFC where possible
• JSON-based configuration
• server password
• channels with many standard modes
• IRC operators
• TLS support (but better to use stunnel with proxy protocol)
• haproxy PROXY protocol header for hostname setting
• passwords stored in bcrypt format

Why?

I wanted to learn Go.

What’s with the name?

“Ergonomadic” is an anagram of “Go IRC Daemon”.

Helpful Documentation

• RFC 1459: Internet Relay Chat Protocol
• RFC 2811: IRC Channel Management
• RFC 2812: IRC Client Protocol
• RFC 2813: IRC Server Protocol
• IRC/2 Numeric List

Running the Server

See the example config.json. Passwords are base64-encoded bcrypted byte strings. You can generate them with e.g. ergonomadic -genpasswd 'hunter21!'.

from your GOPATH

go get
go install
ergonomadic -conf '/path/to/config.json' -initdb
ergonomadic -conf '/path/to/config.json'