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Setting up the tilde.club IRC server

We chose to go with charybdis, mostly because it's in the Debian/Ubuntu package repository (universe), so we can update it without having to go through the configure/make/make install process.

System setup

The IRC server is an Amazon EC2 instance running Ubuntu. Initial system setup on the IRC server included:

  • Setting the hostname (sudo hostname irc) (and perhaps also needing to edit the /etc/hostname file -- unclear)
  • updating the /etc/hosts file (add 172.30.0.216 irc.tilde.club irc and 172.30.0.176 tilde.club tilde)
  • setting the EC2 security group to allow TCP traffic on port 6667 from the tilde.club shell server only

Setup changes on the tilde.club shell server to access the IRC server

The tilde.club shell server needed a few tweaks as well:

  • updating /etc/hosts (add 172.30.0.216 irc.tilde.club irc so users can reach the IRC server by hostname)
  • setting the EC2 security group to allow TCP traffic on port 113 (identd) from the IRC server only

Installing charybdis

First we needed to add the "universe" repository to the apt repository list:

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) universe"

Once that was added, charybdis could be installed:

sudo apt-get install charybdis