Single User Relay Server?
reddit / irc

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DemeGeek · 2014-09-22 02:12

Howdy.

I've heard of people with bad internet connections setting up a server
that they connect to instead of the IRC server which keeps their
sessions alive for them the case of a flaky connection so they don't
disconnect/reconnect spam the channels. Does anybody have any links to
information about such systems?

Thanks.

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flotwig · 2014-09-22 02:42

http://znc.in <-- is what i use

Typically these are called bouncers, or BNCs.

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DemeGeek · 2014-09-22 03:03

Goddamn, I feel stupid now. I am 99% sure I was told that before and
forgot it like a fool.

Thank you for your answer!

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roaawr · 2014-09-22 13:50

I may be a bit late, but do yourself a favor and get the latest stable
or nightly from the website, and not the version from your distro's
package system. You get new features - depending on the topicality of
the distro - and it might save yourself trouble.

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DemeGeek · 2014-09-22 15:12

As a windows user I feel a bit unable to do so.

Plus, it's for a less tech-savy friend so they would be better off
going through a free ZNC BNC provider.

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roaawr · 2014-09-22 15:49

I seem to forget about windows user too often, sorry. You could try
http://znc-msvc.googlecode.com/ then, it has gotten an update a few
weeks ago.

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DemeGeek · 2014-09-22 17:23

I just realized I was a derp. If I was going to deploy ZNC myself I
would use a seperate server which would most likely have a version of
linux on it because Windows Server sucks assballs.