IRC: Difference between revisions

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Note: For the NixOS community chat, see Get In Touch.

Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an application layer protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text. The chat process works on a client/server networking model.

Clients

irssi
Quassel
Weechat with the irc plugin

Servers

IRCd ^{[cf. 1]}^{[cf. 2]}

Bouncers

An IRC bouncer stays connected to IRC servers so clients can disconnect without missing messages or losing the session.

ZNC
keep a client open in a tmux ^{[cf. 3]}^{[cf. 4]}^{[cf. 5]} session

Gateways

An IRC gateway recieves messages through other chat networks (e.g. |XMPP) and forwards them through IRC.

BitlBee

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 {{Note|For the NixOS community chat, see [[Get In Touch]].}}
-From [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Relay_Chat Wikipedia]:
+From [[wikipedia:Internet Relay Chat|Wikipedia]]:
 <blockquote>
-Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application_layer application layer] protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text. The chat process works on a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client%E2%80%93server_model client/server networking model].
+Internet Relay Chat (IRC) is an [[wikipedia:Application layer|application layer]] protocol that facilitates communication in the form of text. The chat process works on a [[wikipedia:Client%E2%80%93server_model|client/server networking model]].
 </blockquote>
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 == Servers ==
-* [[IRCd]] <ref group="cf.">{{nixos:option|services.ircdHybrid}}</ref><ref group="cf.">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRCd IRCd] on Wikipedia</ref>
+* [[IRCd]] <ref group="cf.">{{nixos:option|services.ircdHybrid}}</ref><ref group="cf.">[[wikipedia:IRCd|IRCd]] on Wikipedia</ref>
 == Bouncers ==
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 * [[ZNC]]
-* keep a client open in a [[tmux]] <ref group="cf.">{{nixos:option|programs.tmux}}</ref><ref group="cf.">[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmux tmux] on Wikipedia</ref><ref group="cf.">[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmux tmux] on the ArchWiki</ref> session
+* keep a client open in a [[tmux]] <ref group="cf.">{{nixos:option|programs.tmux}}</ref><ref group="cf.">[[wikipedia:Tmux|tmux]]</ref><ref group="cf.">[https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Tmux tmux] on the ArchWiki</ref> session
 == Gateways ==
-An IRC gateway recieves messages through other chat networks (e.g. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMPP XMPP]) and forwards them through IRC.
+An IRC gateway recieves messages through other chat networks (e.g. [[wikipedia:XMPP||XMPP]]) and forwards them through IRC.
 * [[BitlBee]]

Latest revision as of 18:18, 1 August 2024

Clients

Servers

Bouncers

Gateways

See Also