UnrealIRCd

Infobox Software
name = UnrealIRCd



caption = A screenshot of UnrealIRCd running on Windows XP
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latest release version = 3.2.7 cite web|url=http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4366|title=Strategy Change, Unreal3.2.7 Release, New Website|accessdate=2008-05-21|author=Stskeeps|format=HTML|work=UnrealIRCd Forums]
latest release date = July 14, 2007
latest preview version = 3.3 cite web|url=http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?t=5078|title=Unreal 3.3|accessdate=2008-05-23|author=nate|format=HTML|work=UnrealIRCd Forums]
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platform = Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows cite web|url=http://www.unrealircd.com/about.php|title=About UnrealIRCd|accessdate=2008-05-21|format=HTML|work=UnrealIRCd's official website]
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genre = IRCd
license = GPL cite web|url=http://www.unrealircd.com/files/license.txt|title=UnrealIRCd License|accessdate=2008-05-21|format=TEXT|work=UnrealIRCd]
website = [http://www.unrealircd.com/ www.unrealircd.com]

UnrealIRCd is an open source IRC daemon which was originally a fork off of DALnet's DreamForge IRCd and EliteIRCd.cite web|url=http://docs.dal.net/docs/history.html|title=DALnet History|accessdate=2008-05-21|author=Dalila|coauthors=drosdow|date=2006-12-15|format=HTML|work=DALnet's website] cite web|url=http://anope.info/wiki/IRCd:DreamForge|title=IRCd:DreamForge|accessdate=2008-05-21|format=HTML|work=Anope wiki] cite web|url=http://searchirc.com/boards/post-10893.html#10893|title=codemastr on the origins of UnrealIRCd|accessdate=2008-05-23|author=codemastr|format=HTML|work=SearchIRC Forums] Since development started on UnrealIRCd, around May 1999, many new features have been added, modified, some of which include advanced security features [cite book
last = Piccard
first = Paul
authorlink = Paul L. Piccard
coauthors = Baskin, Edwards, Spillman
editor = Sachs
title = Securing IM and P2P Applications for the Enterprise
publisher = Syngress
year = 2005
month = November
id = ISBN 1-59749-017-2 ] and bug fixes.

UnrealIRCd is one of the most popular and full-featured ircdscite book|last=Mutton|first=Paul|authorlink=Paul Mutton|title=IRC Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools|publisher=O'Reilly|year=2004|isbn=059600687X|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=MbHAnBh9AqQC&pg=PA360&dq=%22One%20of%20the%20most%20popular%20and%20full-featured%20ircds%20is%20Unreal%22&ei=s2ybSKOHJ5yMjAGHlaX6BA&sig=ACfU3U1C2fKNPvzjH-HgGtUkpLFNr0MJ6Q|pages=p. 360|quote=One of the most popular and full-featured ircds is Unreal.|accessdate=2008-08-07] and is used on the largest number of IRC servers.cite web|url=http://searchirc.com/ircd-versions|title=IRCD version overview|accessdate=2008-05-21|format=HTML|work=SearchIRC] The largest IRC networks,cite web|url=http://searchirc.com/largest-irc-networks|title=The largest IRC networks|accessdate=2008-05-21|format=HTML|work=SearchIRC] however, do not use it.cite web|url=http://searchirc.com/network/QuakeNet|title=QuakeNet|accessdate=2008-05-21|format=HTML|work=SearchIRC] cite web|url=http://searchirc.com/network/Undernet|title=Undernet|accessdate=2008-05-21|format=HTML|work=SearchIRC] cite web|url=http://searchirc.com/network/IRCNet|title=IRCNet|accessdate=2008-05-21|format=HTML|work=SearchIRC] cite web|url=http://searchirc.com/network/EFnet|title=EFnet|accessdate=2008-05-21|format=HTML|work=SearchIRC] cite web|url=http://searchirc.com/network/freenode|title=freenode|accessdate=2008-05-21|format=HTML|work=SearchIRC]

History

UnrealIRCd was originally based on EliteIRCd, which was founded from DALnet's DreamForge IRCd.Stskeeps, Lead Developer. [irc://irc.unrealircd.com/unreal-support irc.unrealircd.com, #unreal-support] (IRC). "UnrealIRCd's IRC Support Channel." Retrieved on 2008-05-23.] Nevertheless, since the UnrealIRCd team rewrote most, if not all, of the EliteIRCd code, it is commonly referred to as a fork of DreamForge rather than EliteIRCd. UnrealIRCd started out as the IRCd for the mp3fans.net IRC network. Later it was also used on the global-irc.net IRC network.

About a year later, codemastr, currently an UnrealIRCd developer,cite web|url=http://www.unrealircd.com/staff.php|title=UnrealIRCd Staff/Contributers|work=UnrealIRCd website|accessdate=2008-05-29|format=HTML] joined the UnrealIRCd developer team.

Later, Syzop, also currently a developer, joined the developer team.

As of May 24, 2008, nearly a decade after development first started, in May 1999, UnrealIRCd has come from EliteIRCd, a 15-year-old's IRCd, to being in use on more than 1,500 servers, more than any other IRCd.

Future

On July 13, 2007 Stskeeps announced that the future Unreal4.0 would be a fork of InspIRCd.

References

See also

* Internet Relay Chat
* Comparison of IRC daemons

External links

* [http://www.unrealircd.com/ UnrealIRCd site]