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Ergonomadic

Ergonomadic is an IRC daemon written from scratch in Go. Pull requests and issues are welcome.

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
  • channels that persist between restarts (+P)

Why?

I wanted to learn Go.

Whats with the name?

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

Installation

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

Configuration

See the example config.json. Passwords are base64-encoded bcrypted byte strings. You can generate them with the genpasswd subcommand.

ergonomadic -genpasswd 'hunter21!'

Running the Server

ergonomadic -conf '/path/to/config.json'

Helpful Documentation