inspircd setup problem

webcoder · Lurker Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 162 Location: Florida

I've been trying to get to inspircd's website all day to post on their forums, but their site seems to be down.... So...

I've been atempting to configure inspircd, and going through the process, right at the end I get this error:

TwinShadow · none Joined: 28 Sep 2008 Posts: 38 Location: Texas

Seems like GnuTLS isn't installed on the system or is not properly configured.

Your best bet is to run through ./configure again, but hit "No" for SSL support. If that error still comes up, delete the m_ssl_gnutls.cpp file in the src/modules/ directory. (At least, that's what I think)

webcoder · Lurker Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 162 Location: Florida

Thanks TwinShadow, that worked. Smile

webcoder · Lurker Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 162 Location: Florida

Do you happen to know what Services will work well with inspircd?

Ed_Gein · none Joined: 14 Sep 2005 Posts: 15 Location: Hempville USA

Atheme services work well with inspircd.
i think with inspircd 1.2 it will support anope
but not sure

TwinShadow · none Joined: 28 Sep 2008 Posts: 38 Location: Texas

It's not so much as to what InspIRCd can work with, but rather what services support InspIRCd.

Atheme and Anope being the two most used apparently.

Anope 1.9 will have InspIRCd 1.2 support, but not the 1.8 branch (that I've read on their forum). Atheme already has support, but it's still in beta stages. As is InspIRCd 1.2 as well, but that's soon to hit RC if things go as planned.

I know quite a bit since I've been using InspIRCd myself on my network. =P I also use Anope which hasn't necessarily failed me, but their lack of updates makes me wonder on certain modules I like...

EcKstasy · Lurker Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 178

Anope has always supported inspire.

webcoder · Lurker Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 162 Location: Florida

Thanks for the help... I got Anope running with it...

Any of you know anything about IRC Defender? I'm having problems getting it to run.

I have Neostats currently running with it, but I'd like to try something Different...

TwinShadow · none Joined: 28 Sep 2008 Posts: 38 Location: Texas

I have IRC Defender running now. If you configured it already and gave it a U:Line in the InspIRCd config, then to run it, it's "perl defender.pl" (without quotes).

webcoder · Lurker Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 162 Location: Florida

Would any happen to know how to do encrypted passwords in the o:lines in the conf file? I know how they are done in Unreal, but is it the same with InspIRCd?

Thanks

Trixar_za · Posted: Dec 19, 2008 10:12am Post subject:

The Password encryption is similar to unreal, but I don't think their portable between Unreal and Inspircd.

You use the /mkpasswd command like you would in unreal, but you must make sure you have the m_md5 and m_sha256 modules loaded before using those kind on encryptions.

As for Services, try Atheme, since Anope still doesn't support the 1.2 Branch of Inspircd and since inspircd went TOTALLY over to Ratbox's TS6 system, the old Inspircd 1.1 module included with Anope won't work.

Hopefully Anope catches up soon, because using Inspircd 1.1 sucks when you see the features in 1.2...

-- [edit] I'm writing this as of anope 1.8.0-rc, and they still don't have a working inspircd 1.2 module - incase your wondering about versions here Razz

webcoder · Lurker Joined: 28 Feb 2008 Posts: 162 Location: Florida

okay, cool thanks... I have the 1.2 version i have unreal/anope as far as my current network setup goes, but as i stated in my first post we are looking for a change, and so far out of all that i have tried i like InspIRCd the best

Trixar_za · Posted: Dec 20, 2008 7:10am Post subject:

Yeah, I personally like how flexible it is, you can literally create your own kind of IRCops and even a 'helper' class if you wanted.

The only things that bothers me is that porting over means you have to port all servers over to Inspircd of the same version (1.1 server won't link to a 1.2 server) - Unlike with Unreal, it can be jimmy rigged into linking to other IRCd.
Also services wise, most of the developers of Inspircd is working on Atheme too and IRC Defender, so they are made to work well with Inspircd. Other services still need to catch up, but this probably will change in the near future support wise.

Anyway, it's down to choice and personally I'll do the complete switch once support for Inspircd has grown with other services, so I can make the transition without disrupting users too much.

TwinShadow · none Joined: 28 Sep 2008 Posts: 38 Location: Texas

Speaking of services, I know of one developer for InspIRCd that is also helping to develop Anope 1.9, but that won't be released for a long while since 1.8 is still in RC stages.

Seems like I might switch services soon, but I'm still not too certain yet. I've tried Atheme, but.. didn't like it all that much.

Well, in any case, seems like you got your questions answered and all that. I personally use sha256 encryption on ShadowHime since I do think that's better than MD5, but that's a personal opinion.

Trixar_za · Posted: Dec 20, 2008 3:20pm Post subject:

Then Anope 1.9 is the thing we're waiting for to switch over to Inspircd 1.2 (finally) - I'm guessing this will only be next year though, but I'm holding thumbs this is soon.

I would agree that sha256 is a better encryption - and like MD5 it's a one way encryption that matches possible passwords you type in with the 'hash' of the encrypted password you created earlier. In the case of sha256 there are more possibilities (it would take the fastest computer in the world a 100 years to work out ALL the possible unencrypted password - and then you still have to try them one by one...) which makes it harder to crack.

Still, it's down to preference and speed wise it doesn't matter which you use. I'm a paranoid person so I tend to use sha256 myself - lol