dIRCd

An IRC daemon written in D.

RFCs

• 2810: Internet Relay Chat: Architecture
• 2811: Internet Relay Chat: Channel Management
• 2812: Internet Relay Chat: Client Protocol
• 2813: Internet Relay Chat: Server Protocol

Differences from the RFC

There are many deviations from the spec in the IRC RFC in this server. They are listed below.

• All commands that are not implemented, basically. A (mostly) complete list is below.
• Does not support multiple servers (RFC)
  • Does not support netsplit (RFC)
• Wildcards are, at this point, not implemented (RFC)
• No OPER support (RFC)
• Partial MODE support (RFC, partially planned)
  • No "r" mode support (reop) (RFC)
  • No KICK support (RFC)
• No LIST support (RFC, planned)
• No INVITE support (RFC, planned)
• No VERSION support (RFC)
• No STATS support (RFC)
• No LINKS support (RFC)
• No TIME support (RFC)
• No CONNECT support (RFC)
• No TRACE support (RFC)
• No ADMIN support (RFC)
• No INFO support (RFC)
• No NOTICE support (RFC, planned)
• No "User based queries" (RFC, planned)
• WHO works only on channels (RFC)
• No WHOIS query (RFC)
  • No WHOWAS query (RFC)
• None of the "Optionals" are included (RFC)
• No KILL support (RFC)
• Pings are sent at a constant rate, regardless of recent activity. (RFC)
• No ERROR support (RFC)

What works

That seems like a huge list of everything that doesn't work. Some of those are planned, but a lot of things are not included in this server. However, many things still work.

• ISON (RFC)
• JOIN (RFC)
• MODE (RFC) - reading modes (chan & user), setting modes (chan only, currently)
• NAMES on channels (RFC)
• NICK (RFC)
• PART (RFC)
• PASS (RFC)
• PING (RFC) - only sending pings to clients works; receiving pings is not yet supported
• PONG (RFC)
• PRIVMSGs (RFC)
• QUIT (RFC)
• TOPIC (RFC)
• USER (RFC)
• WHO on channels only (RFC)

Bugs

• (Possible) Ping timeouts may take longer than 120 seconds.

Planned Features

• CAP support
• Full IRCv3 support