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