hircd - Hacky IRC Daemon

About

hircd is a minimal, hacky implementation of an IRC server daemon written in Python in about 600 lines of code, including comments, etc.

It only has (sometimes basic) support for:

• Connecting
• Channels
• Nicknames
• Public/private messages

It is MISSING support for notably:

• Server linking
• Modes (user and channel)
• Proper error reporting
• Basically everything else

It is mostly useful as a testing tool or perhaps for building something like a private proxy on. Do NOT use it in any kind of production code or anything that will ever be connected to by the public.

Hircd is included, in modified (and better maintained) form in the python-irc's irc.server module.

Requirements

• Python (3.5+)
• An IRC client

Usage

Usage: ./hircd.py [option]

Options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --start               Start hircd (default)
  --stop                Stop hircd
  --restart             Restart hircd
  -a LISTEN_ADDRESS, --address=LISTEN_ADDRESS
                        IP to listen on
  -p LISTEN_PORT, --port=LISTEN_PORT
                        Port to listen on
  -V, --verbose         Be verbose (show lots of output)
  -l, --log-stdout      Also log to stdout
  -f, --foreground      Do not go into daemon mode.

Copyright

hircd is Copyright by Ferry Boender, 2009-2022 - Released under the MIT License

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.