Obsolete:IRC forwarding

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Zwinger is set up to listen on TCP ports 57234 and 58234 for IRC forwarding/proxying purposes:

dircproxy on port 57234

usage

• dircproxy is an IRC proxy which lets you see what you missed when you reconnect after disconnecting

configuration

• make yourself an entry in /usr/local/etc/dircproxyrc, encrypting the password with dircproxy-crypt
• permit access from your IP address, by altering the above config file, and /usr/local/bin/firewallinit.sh
• configure your IRC client to connect to zwinger.wikimedia.org:57234 as a proxy, and make sure you specify the password

notes

• no need to restart dircproxy after editing config file (I think)
• runs as user dircproxy
• a cronjob periodically checks that the service is still running, and starts it if necessary
• if a restart is necessary, pkill dircproxy, and then /home/dircproxy/run_dircproxy.sh (as root)

simple forwarder on port 58234

usage

• connect to zwinger.wikimedia.org:58234 instead of irc.freenode.net:6667

configuration

• permit access from your IP address, by editing /usr/local/bin/firewallinit.sh

notes

• code: tcpserver 0 58234 netcat irc.freenode.net 6667
  • tcpserver is from ucspi-tcp