UnrealIRCd
UnrealIRCd | |
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Programming language: | C |
Platform: | Linux, BSD, Mac OS X, Solaris, Windows |
Status: | Active |
Based on: | EliteIRCd[1] |
License: | GNU General Public License |
Latest release: | 3.2.9 |
Homepage: | http://www.unrealircd.com/ |
UnrealIRCd is an IRC daemon forked from EliteIRCd[1] (which is a Dreamforge fork) written in C and released under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). UnrealIRCd is very popular amongst small networks and less experienced users and out of those networks indexed by SearchIRC, it ranks #1 in servers using it.
Usability
UnrealIRCd is commonly used alongside the Anope services package, although UnrealIRCd is supported of a wide range of other services, such as Atheme and IRC Services. UnrealIRCd can also be used with the extended services Denora and NeoStats which will both provide statistics for the IRC server.
History
Development of UnrealIRCd began around May 1999. UnrealIRCd is a fork of EliteIRCd (Which is a fork of Dreamforge). However, development of UnrealIRCd has become a bit stale, and the project has saw many developers quitting[2][3] Plans for a new release of UnrealIRCd that are more than just a bug fix release are often changing, nobody knows what the future of UnrealIRCd will be.[4][5]
Exploit
It was discovered in June 2010 that the Unreal3.2.8 tarball on some of their mirrors had a trojan in it, that allowed any user, regardless of privileges to execute commands. It is believed the trojan was placed in the tar.gz in November 2009.[6] However the UnrealIRCd team have implemented counter measures to prevent this happening again.[7]
Latets release
Unreal 3.2.9 was released in November 2011[8]
Supported Extended Services
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://cvs.unrealircd.com/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/unreal/doc/unrealircd.doc?rev=1.1
- ↑ http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?t=6175
- ↑ http://www.unrealircd.com/index.php?mode=archive
- ↑ http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=4469&p=22808#p22808
- ↑ http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?t=5709
- ↑ http://www.unrealircd.com/txt/unrealsecadvisory.20100612.txt
- ↑ http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?t=6566
- ↑ http://forums.unrealircd.com/viewtopic.php?t=7402