Monthly Archives: March, 2010
Boredicons IRC now has SSL support
irc.boredicons.com should now support SSL on port 6697. The cert is self-signed, so if this is a problem, please point me to a decent CA that doesn’t charge. The FAQ has been updated accordingly. Also please tell me if it doesn’t work for some reason.
Meet the services, part 1: NickServ
In this series I’m going to cover the basic services available to users. This is not intended as a syntactic reference, just a feature guide. If you need to know how to use a specific command, see the end of this post for details on how to find out. NickServ is the foundation of all [...]
Scheduled downtime mk2
Ok, again tonight around 10PM or so EDT I’m gonna take down irc.boredicons.com for SSL setup now that I think I’ve got a setup that will actually work. Expected downtime is 5-15 minutes. Services will be down during this time as well. Edit: Ok I lied, probably be Thursday since durd will be down tomorrow. [...]
Scheduled downtime
irc.durd.net will be offline for some time on Wednesday the 31st at 6PM CET for hardware maintenance. I will also be taking irc.boredicons.com down for a brief time to enable SSL later tonight but that should hopefully only take a minute and ideally just needs a restart. If you need to know which server you’re [...]
So what do all those modes do?
From the IRCd’s own description, here’s all the user modes: o = Global IRC Operator O = Local IRC Operator a = Is a Services Administrator A = Is a Server Administrator N = Is a Network Administrator C = Is a Co Administrator d = Makes it so you can not receive channel PRIVMSGs [...]