IRCD-Balancer

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IRCD-Balancer allows you to spread IRC clients between multiple IRC servers. Why would you want to do this? Several methods of usage have come in use:

• Keeping the IRC leaves hidden from public view
• One entry point to the IRC network or network segment

Built in resource limits have been implimented to automatically shut-off the server should the balancer become overwhelmed with unwanted traffic, whilst allowing existing clients to continue talking safely. This has become handy for networks that attract DDOS attacks.

Prerequisites

IRCD-Balancer is built using Node.js, so you must have this installed first. http://nodejs.org/

Install via git

• Clone the git repository:

  $ git clone [email protected]:prawnsalad/IRCD-Balancer.git

• Read and edit the configuration file:

  $ nano ircdbalancer_conf.js

Install via download

• Download and unzip the source from: https://github.com/prawnsalad/IRCD-Balancer/zipball/master

• Read and edit the configuration file:

  $ nano ircdbalancer_conf.js

Installing on system startup / Running as a deamon

There is an upstart script (ircdbalancer_upstart.conf) provided that may be used to install ircdbalancer as a deamon.

• Copy ircdbalancer_upstart.conf to your upstart init folder

  $ sudo cp ircdbalancer_upstart.conf /etc/init/ircdbalancer.conf

• Copy all the ircdbalancer sources to its application folder

  $ mkdir /opt/ircdbalancer $ cp ./* /opt/ircdbalancer/

You can now use the following commands to control ircdbalancer:

$ start ircdbalancer
$ stop ircdbalancer
$ restart ircdbalancer

Running

From the source folder:

$ node ircdbalancer.js

As a deamon:

$ start ircdbalancer

Runtime commands

Once running, you can interact with ircdbalancer to update the config or look at simple statistics without turning the server off.

If running a deamon:

$ nc -U /opt/ircdbalancer/control.sock

If running as normal, you can simply type into the console.

Control commands

Enable / disable basic statistic reporting

$ stats

View the current IRCD pool

$ pool

Reload the configuration and rebind the server listeners

$ rehash

Bugs

Report bugs using the issue tracker on github: https://github.com/prawnsalad/IRCD-Balancer/issues