Start your own IRC channel?

[Fraggster]

How do you set up an IRC channel? I heard that you can use ChanServ but cant find it. Also how would i configure the firewall in my router or would it work fine anyway?


Thanks:beer:

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

/j #mynewchannel

Router? Firewall? Are you talking about running your own irc server?

 

[n0cmonkey]

You need to read before you start getting into this too much. Depending on how serious you get, it can be a lot of work keeping a channel going (not to mention an ircd!).

 

[Davegod]

Basically --presuming you're already connected to a network-- join the channel (/join #channel), and if no-one (counting bots) is already in it, it's yours. If someone or thing is in it, someone already has it. Most networks are very unlikely to give you control/"ownership" of someone elses channel, unless there is blatant good reason (e.g. channel name is your trademark or something).

To KEEP it, you need a "bot" to hold it for you. The idea is it will stay in the channel and enforce your ownsership: op you and prevent anyone else taking control of the channel. For Quakenet, you'd be looking for an L-bot (Q is similar but more powerful, for large channels only). You can find out how to request L here. For a different network, obviously the system is very likely to be quite different, check the network's website for some FAQ.

Firewall - try here


Seeing as you're apparently a novice IRC user, I'll point you to and reccomend nnscript to install ontop of mIRC. Just a addon script but I think you'll find it much better (for starters the themes, and the scripts make the interface rather a lot easier).

 

[Fraggster]

i just wont a small one for me and my friends to swap files and stuff