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IRCNow: Status of the Union
Install and configure bitlbee
Provide shell accounts
Provide web hosting
# Offer chrooted sftp access
# Offer pmwiki for each user
# Offer PHP web hosting
# Offer BCHS web hosting
# Offer [undeadly's](https://undeadly.org) [[source code](../https://undeadly.org/src/.md) for blogs
# Offer [undeadly's](https://undeadly.org) [[source code](../https://undeadly.org/src/.md) for blogs
# Alternatively, offer [centroid's](https://centroid.eu/blog) [[source code](../https://gotweb.centroid.eu/cgi-bin/gotweb/gotweb?path=centroidblog.got&action=tree.md) for blogs
# Alternatively, offer [centroid's](https://centroid.eu/blog) [[source code](../https://gotweb.centroid.eu/cgi-bin/gotweb/gotweb?path=centroidblog.got&action=tree.md) for blogs
# Offer [gotweb](../openbsd/gotweb.md) for version control
Provide eggdrops
Provide file hosting
# Setup a chrooted sftp
# For shell servers, provide openrsync, rsync, and [scp # For shell servers, provide openrsync, rsync, and [scp
Provide IPSec VPNs with IKED
Provide mail hosting
# Find a spam solution, possibly using rspamd
Improve security:
# Set up server firewalls
# Harden file permissions
# Set up DNS blacklists
# Implement quotas
Jan 2022 to December 2022
Patch ngircd:
# Add support for ilines
# Toggle +r user mode based as determined by open proxy monitors
# Fix buffer exhausted errors
# Add ELIST functionality for IRCCloud since this client cannot use /list
# Add defcon mode
# Add /ns and /cs aliases
Improve botnow, a script for registering IRCNow services
# Add support for instant registration of shell accounts
# Add support for automatic eggdrop compilation and configuration
Add interactive UNIX tutorials for shell account users
Add interactive VPS tutorials for teammates
Update website theme
Create disaster recovery plan
# Automated backups / restore testing
Setup opensnmpd for alert monitoring
Patch identd to allow spoofing
CGI script to view znc logs
Future
Improve security:
# Automate check for abusive processes/malware on shell accounts
Write interactive C programming tutorials
Switch services from anope to fork of achurch
Switch open proxy monitor from hopm to fork of acopm
Encourage use of psybnc instead of znc
# Add playback feature to psybnc
# Allow searching of old IRC history
# Fix IPv6 connection issues with psybnc
# Add NickServ modules that 'just works' across all major IRC networks
Add new features to achurch:
# MemeServ
# HoneyServ
# PasteServ
# TrapServ
# FileServ
# KeyServ
Provide telephony using SIP
# Setup [[openbsd/asterisk]]
# Provide free sip accounts
# Register DIDs
# Provide free TURN/STUN servers
Write web IRC app
Marketing
Get our IRC network listed
# https://search.mibbit.com/, mIRC, androIRC
# https://netsplit.de/
# Get listed on undeadly.org
IRCNow Todo List
Plans for Profit
Build a free and open Internet platform for 3rd party businesses to easily buy/sell to users; charge transaction fees on each sale
# Provide an IRC marketplace and cryptocoin payment platform
# Provide an IRC platform for developers of IRC bots and games
# Provide an IRC analytics platform for advertisers (require user consent)
# These 3rd parties could sell proprietary software and services, ads, and physical goods
Directly sell our users annual subscriptions for
# Extra file storage for web, file, and email hosting
# VPS hosting
# IRCd hosting