Gathering the community together - to IRC

[valerima]

Irc

Very often I check forum news from my working place and for sure will not be permitted to use another than permitted software, so IRC would be limited option for me.

 

[Juggler]

#asuswrt doesn't look active, maybe timezone difference...

 

[RMerlin]

#asuswrt doesn't look active, maybe timezone difference...

This is IRC. People idle there a lot, then suddenly 2 or 3 people will start talking for an hour or two.

 

[ryzhov_al]

Tried to use IRC bouncer with no success.

26-02-2014 21:10:06 DEBUG: "NOTICE * :*** You are banned from arcor.de.eu.dal.ne t"
26-02-2014 21:10:06 DEBUG: "NOTICE * :*** Reason: [exp/proxy] Open proxies are n ot allowed on DALnet. See http://kline.dal.net/proxy/proxyinfo.php?proxy=EIDENTD &ip=x.x.x.x&port=65000 for more information. (2014/02/26 18.03)"

Looks like dal.net got some strict rules:

- Your proxy MUST NOT allow non-authenticated access from the internet at large.
- It MUST NOT respond to requests on ports 23, 80,81, 3128 or 8080 from any IP address outside your LAN.
- Your proxy SHOULD run an ident daemon and ideally require user authentication (username & password) for access.

Dal.net won't allow to have both irc bouncer and web server on the same ip

 

[aph]

DALnet, now there's a name I haven't heard in 15 years. I think they mask hostnames now but IRC was the only reason I registered a domain name and had a reverse lookup for my IP address point to it. aph@aph.com will try to stop by

 

[r00t4rd3d]

I think they mask hostnames now

They dont, ip's are visible.

 

[ryzhov_al]

Sorry for logging-in\out flood, it was my (misconfigured) bouncer. Did you use one? Or is there any web-services to read chan logs?

 

[ryzhov_al]

Using Irssi

If you do not want to miss anything important on #asuswrt, here is a little How-To use a console IRC client, which will run on background and log any channel activity. You may join or leave a conversations at any time.

1. Install Entware and necessary packages

opkg install irssi dtach

2. Create an Irssi config
Fill /opt/etc/irssi/irssi.config with following content:

settings = {
  core = {
    [COLOR="Red"]real_name = "Alexander Ryzhov";[/COLOR]
    [COLOR="Red"]user_name = "ryzhov_al";[/COLOR]
    [COLOR="Red"]nick = "ryzhov_al";[/COLOR]
  };
  "fe-text" = { actlist_sort = "refnum"; };
  "fe-common/core" = {
    term_charset = "utf-8";
    autolog_path = "/opt/var/log/irssi.log";
    autolog = "ON";
  };
};
servers = (
  {
    address = "irc.dal.net";
    chatnet = "dalnet";
    port = "6667";
    use_ssl = "no";
    ssl_verify = "no";
    autoconnect = "yes";
  }
);
chatnets = {
  dalnet = {
    type = "IRC";
    [COLOR="Red"]autosendcmd = "/^msg NickServ@services.dal.net identify P@ssw0rd;wait 2000";[/COLOR]
  };
  dalnet = { type = "IRC"; };
};
channels = (
  {
    name = "#asuswrt";
    chatnet = "dalnet";
    autojoin = "yes";
  }
);

Please put your own nick, name, password in the red lines.

3. Create autostart script
Put it to /opt/etc/init.d/S75irssi

#!/bin/sh

[ -e "/opt/var/dtach_irssi" ] && rm -f /opt/var/dtach_irssi

ENABLED=yes
PROCS=irssi
ARGS="--config=/opt/etc/irssi/irssi.config --home=/opt/etc/irssi"
PREARGS="dtach -n /opt/var/dtach_irssi"
DESC=$PROCS
PATH=/opt/sbin:/opt/bin:/opt/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

. /opt/etc/init.d/rc.func

and make it executable:

chmod +x  /opt/etc/init.d/S75irssi

Irssi will start on boot. To start it manually, type:

/opt/etc/init.d/S75irssi start

Some basic tips:

• To attach an IRC client type dtach -a /opt/var/dtach_irssi
• To detach press Ctrl+\
• To switch tabs within Irsii press Alt+1, Alt+2 and so on
• To scroll windows use PgUp/PgDown keys.

Here is a little ASCII video made with asciinema package.

 

[sinshiva]

Couple minor things to add;

if you change

    port = "6667";
    use_ssl = "no";

to

    port = "6697";
    use_ssl = "yes";

you'll be connected via SSL and;

SERVER LIST: in case you want to specify something closer to home.

IPv6 users via ipv6.dal.net

 

[r00t4rd3d]

irssi works good with Screen also.

Lots of good irssi and Screen tips:

http://quadpoint.org/articles/irssi/

 

[Geraner]

Good idea with a IRC channel for this forum.
I would also prefer freenode since I'm using this already chatting in another channel.

/Geraner

 

[MoInSTL]

DALnet, EFnet, mIRC=stroll down memory lane.

 

[RMerlin]

I moved the channel information in the existing sticky - un-stickying this thread now.

 

[KGB7]

Wow.... I haven't used IRC In a decade. The only reason I switched to forums, is because I don't have to filter through a thousand line's of nonesence.

Its a good idea, but if some of us are not present at the right time in the channel, we miss important info. Then a question gets reasked a dozen times, and in the forums answers are present till the end of time.

 

[sinshiva]

Wow.... I haven't used IRC In a decade. The only reason I switched to forums, is because I don't have to filter through a thousand line's of nonesence.

Its a good idea, but if some of us are not present at the right time in the channel, we miss important info. Then a question gets reasked a dozen times, and in the forums answers are present till the end of time.

nobody has abandoned the forum, consider it supplemental

 

[wiak]

merlin i think freenode might be a good place, there are alot of people there that works on open source projects, am never on dalnet

 

[RMerlin]

merlin i think freenode might be a good place, there are alot of people there that works on open source projects, am never on dalnet

We've been on Dalnet for nearly two years now, we have no reason to move away.

And personally I had already been lurking on Dalnet for a few years, that was why I went with that network.

 

[wiak]

We've been on Dalnet for nearly two years now, we have no reason to move away.

And personally I had already been lurking on Dalnet for a few years, that was why I went with that network.

i dont mind that much, i will hang out there

 

[baos]

Any simple way to log irc without installing entware or other framework? Already have a fulltime drive plugged into usb3 formatted ntfs. Adding a second usb2 last i tried just made errors

 

[RMerlin]

Any simple way to do this without installing entware or other framework? Already have a fulltime drive plugged into usb3 formatted ntfs. Adding a second usb2 last i tried just made errors

There are plenty of IRC clients available both for Windows desktops and web-based.