About UnrealIRCd

UnrealIRCd is an Open Source IRC Server, serving thousands of IRC networks since 1999. It runs on Linux, FreeBSD, OS X and Windows and is currently the most widely deployed IRC Server with a market share of 42% according to IRCStats.org.

Some of UnrealIRCd's most notable features include:
 * Module support: full freedom to load specific features or not
 * Advanced security features: such as anti-flood and anti-spam systems: Spamfilter, channel mode +f, DNS Blacklists (DNSBL), AntiRandom, connection throttling based on reputation.
 * Highly configurable configuration file
 * Extensive documentation (on this wiki and also on IRC through the /HELPOP command)
 * Admin webpanel to do admin tasks from your browser
 * Third party programs can communicate with UnrealIRCd outside IRC using JSON-RPC
 * Optional JSON logging allows easy machine reading of logs. Also allows receiving JSON logs over IRC, such as for oper bots/scripts.
 * SSL/TLS encrypted client and server connections, with secure defaults and a lot of configuration options.
 * Channel Owners (+q) and Channel Admins (+a)
 * Channel Half-ops (+h)
 * Advanced banning through extended bans, including but not limited to: timed bans (that are removed after X minutes), allowing/exempting by services account name, certificate fingerprint, etc.
 * Text filtering via a "swear filter" user/channel mode (+G) and per-channel text filter via the ~T extban.
 * Channel linking (+L)
 * Hostname cloaking (+x)
 * Color blocking and stripping (+c/+S)
 * Vhosts
 * DCCDeny
 * Much more... see also the Features section.

If you want to download UnrealIRCd, go to https://www.unrealircd.org/download