Ergonomadic

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

Some Features

• follows the RFC where possible
• gcfg gitconfig-style configuration
• server password (PASS command)
• channels with most standard modes
• IRC operators (OPER command)
• haproxy PROXY protocol header for hostname setting
• passwords stored in bcrypt format
• channels that persist between restarts (+P)

Why?

I wanted to learn Go.

What’s with the name?

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

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 version 4.56 with haproxy’s PROXY protocol. This will allow the server to get the client’s original addresses for hostname lookups.

Installation

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

Configuration

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

ergonomadic -genpasswd 'hunter2!'

Running the Server

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

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