UnrealIRCd 是一个开源的IRC 服务器。于1999年5月开始开发,UnrealIRCd 的前身是用于DALnet IRC 网络的Dreamforge IRCd,经过多年的发展,许多令人兴奋的新功能已经添加到UnrealIRCd,比较显著的特点如下:
Channel Half-ops (+h) Channel Owners (+q) and Channel Admins (+a) Advanced anti-flood and anti-spam systems (such as Spamfilter) Advanced banning through ‘extended bans’ Swear filtering (+G) Channel linking (+L) Hostname cloaking (+x) Color blocking and stripping (+c/+S) Vhosts WebTV Support DCCDeny SSL encrypted client and server connections Ziplinks Advanced and highly configurable configuration file Module support Extensive documentation in several languages (in HTML and on IRC through /HELPOP) And much more… see also the Features section in the official documentation
UnrealIRCd 可以在多种操作系统上,适用于大多数 *nix 操作系统,包括Linux、BSD、MacOS X、Solaris和HP- UX,也适用于Windows(NT4/2K/XP/2003/Vista/7)。
UnrealIRCd 是一个设计高深的IRCd,因此它可能不是初学者的最佳选择。