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4 Modern IRC

IRC has changed much over its life on the Internet. New server software has added a multitude of new features.

• Services: Network-Operated bots to facilitate registration of nicknames and channels, sending messages for offline users and network operator functions.
• Extra Modes: While the original IRC system used a set of standard user and channel modes, new servers add many new modes for such features as removing color codes from text, or obscuring a user's hostmask ("cloaking") to protect from denial of service attacks.
• Proxy Detection: Most modern servers support detection of users attempting to connect through an insecure (misconfigured or exploited) proxy, which can then be denied a connection.
• Additional Commands: New commands can be such things as shorthand commands to issue commands to Services, to network operator only commands to manipulate a user's hostmask.
• Encryption: For the client-to-server leg of the connection SSL might be used (messages cease to be secure once they are relayed to other users on standard connections, but it makes eavesdropping on or wiretapping an individual's IRC sessions difficult).

5 See also

• Comparison of instant messengers
• Bash.org
• Depot channel
• Direct Client-to-Client
• Idle RPG - A role playing game for IRC
• Instant messaging
• Multicast - IRC is one of the few technologies equipped with a real one-to-many strategy.
• Online chat
• Peer-to-peer
• XDCC
• IRCX

6 External links

• History of IRC summarized by Daniel Stenberg
• mIRC server list, most of the larger IRC networks
• Andreas Gelhausen's extensive IRC statistics
• List of channel modes that various IRC Daemons use
• Large archive of IRC-related documents, somewhat EFNet biased
• cross network whois search at Search IRC, an IRC search engine
• IRC Junkie - IRC news
• IRC Help - Learning the basics of IRC, including netiquette
• An extensive list of different numerics and modes used by various IRC networks

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