Setting up InspIRCd as an internal IRC server for companywide chat

Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:16:12 +0000

I got this idea (from this blog post) that it would be cool and great if we had an IRC server to facilitate communication within our team. I started checking out some different IRC servers to see which ones supported the main features I wanted (LDAP auth & SSL). I started out with ratbox but I didn’t really like it. I found InspIRCd and after some config tweaking it’s working well. Here’s the info from modules.conf for authentication against Active Directory (so people login with their AD usernames):

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Setting up InspIRCd as an internal IRC server for companywide chat