I am an absolute noob on IRC and I am looking to host a server myself,
is there a way to host it without a domain?
reddit / irc

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FrowzyF · 2018-06-23 01:31

title.

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[deleted] · 2018-06-23 01:55

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TheContrarian2 · 2018-06-23 01:56

Sure.

You can run web services on your home network. You'll have to enable
Port Forwarding on your router so that requests coming from the
Internet go to the right machine running your IRC server software.
Then, folks from outside your network would access your service with
an IP address and port, like 192.168.0.1:8080

It's not difficult. You should know what you're doing when you fart
around with port forwarding. You are actually letting anyone on the
Internet access the IP address and port your forwarding to. There are
best practices that should be applied. But in a nutshell, it would
work.

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KindOne · 2018-06-23 01:59

Yes. Just connect to the IP address of the server.

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KindOne · 2018-06-23 02:01

Because people want to.

Yes, there are a bunch of raging idiots on the internet, but so what?

This might be for personal testing and/or small private IRC network
with just a few friends.

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AyanAC_ · 2018-06-24 02:09

That's a nose bleed for me

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TheContrarian2 · 2018-06-24 02:18

It's not hard, and it's a great opportunity to learn about the IP
protocol. Here's a good article...

https://superuser.com/questions/284051/what-is-port-forwarding-and-
what-is-it-used-for