GeekShed IRC Network
BNC Usability
Our BNC service now has 109 registered users. This is good. We do, however, get questions daily about connecting to it. Although I am sure this is mainly due to people not reading the manual, it’d be easier for all involved if there were clear instructions about how to connect to the BNC with different IRC clients.
For this, we need your help! Even if you don’t use the BNC service all we need to know is:
1) What client are you using and on which Operating System?
2) Do you need to install anything to get SSL working on your client of choice? If so, what?
3) What is the command to open a new server connection to irc.server.com on port 8888 using SSL?
Please post these as comments to this post. See the first comment (mine) as an example. Naturally, if someone else has already posted about a client you need not repeat the instructions unless their instructions were incorrect.
Thanks in advance for your time :)
For this, we need your help! Even if you don’t use the BNC service all we need to know is:
1) What client are you using and on which Operating System?
2) Do you need to install anything to get SSL working on your client of choice? If so, what?
3) What is the command to open a new server connection to irc.server.com on port 8888 using SSL?
Please post these as comments to this post. See the first comment (mine) as an example. Naturally, if someone else has already posted about a client you need not repeat the instructions unless their instructions were incorrect.
Thanks in advance for your time :)
January 16, 2011 - 5:11 pm
1) Using mIRC on Windows
2) You need to install win32 openssl from http://www.slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL_Light-1_0_0c.exe and then restart mIRC
3) /server -m irc.server.com:+8888
January 16, 2011 - 5:14 pm
It’s not really bnc specific, but I think the mode +R on connect should really be disabled.
January 18, 2011 - 1:27 am
+R is set on connect to protect our users from automated PM spam bots. Since it takes very little time to register (and since both people can -R if they need to), it is unlikely that we would remove this setting from our configuration.
January 16, 2011 - 5:17 pm
1) Xchat on Ubuntu
2) OpenSSL is generally already installed, but you can get it with a simple apt-get: “sudo apt-get install openssl”
3) Do this command on XChat if you’re not already connected to a network (or don’t wish to maintain the current one): “/server irc.server.com +8888” or “/newserver irc.server.com +8888” if you want to maintain your current server connection.
January 16, 2011 - 5:18 pm
1 Using mIRC on Windows 7
2 Install win32 openssl
3 /server -m irc.geekshed.net +8888 user:pass
I love GeekShed
January 16, 2011 - 5:18 pm
1) Textual on MacOSX
2) there is no install of Any SSL software
3) /server .bnc.GeekShed.net +8888 :
:)
January 16, 2011 - 5:27 pm
1) Textual on MacOSX
2) there is no install of Any SSL software
3) /server Server.bnc.GeekShed.net +8888 usernsame:password
:)
also -typo
January 16, 2011 - 5:28 pm
1) Textual-Mac OS X
2) No need to install any SSL software
3)/server ……bnc.geekshed.net +8888 user:pass or Server>Add Server
January 16, 2011 - 6:01 pm
1) PnPlus on Windows XP
2) No Need
3)/server -m irc.geekshed.net +8888 user:pass
I love geekshed <333
January 16, 2011 - 8:49 pm
Linkinus on MacOSX
No Need
/server newserver +8888 name:pass
January 17, 2011 - 3:41 pm
So I appreciate we are asking for your help here but it’d be of more help to us if you followed the instructions above and provided points 1, 2 and 3 as requested. We realise that many clients have a server list but we are interested in the COMMAND to connect to an SSL server.
January 17, 2011 - 3:48 pm
XChat – Windows (silverex):
– SSL should be included with the program.
/NEWSERVER -ssl irc.geekshed.net 8888 USER:PASSWORD
January 19, 2011 - 5:46 am
Textual – Mac OSX
SSL is included
/server -ssl irc.geekshed.net 8888
January 22, 2011 - 5:31 pm
XChat On Windows 7
No SSL Addons Needed
/server Server.bnc.geekshed.net +8888 user:pass
January 29, 2011 - 9:35 pm
PChat On Windows 7
No SSL Addons Needed
/server server.bnc.geekshed.net +8888 user:pass
August 30, 2014 - 10:23 pm
1) irssi on debian gnu/linux (irssi has been compiled with OpenSSL by the Debian project)
2) honestly IDK
3) /connect -ssl irc.server.com 8888
3a) To use a certificate at path /home/lol/lol.pem (probably isn’t applicable here but useful on other nets), /connect -ssl -ssl_cert /home/lol/lol.pem irc.server.com 8888
I’m not a GeekShed or GSBNC user, so this is just based on personal experience with other networks.