Which bouncer software do you use?

logon

Well in portage there is muh, miau and ezbounce. I do know nothing about each of them, and according to the websites they all have pretty standard features. Miau actually is a fork of muh and they seem to have no difference except the name?! I like cows more than cats so i would choose muh over miau but that seems to be a very bad reason to decide on.

I usually used psybnc which isn't in portage, thats why i would prefer one of the others.

Since this is about security and networking i put it into this forum, and hope you guys can tell me which bouncer you use, and for what reason. I want the most secure and most stable one I can get, and if it is in portage it gets a 100 bonus points.

logon · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 12:21 pm Post subject:

Am I the only one using a bouncer here? Come on guys don't be shy. We can talk about this! :-)

j-m · Retired Dev Joined: 31 Oct 2004 Posts: 975

logon · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject:

I compiled psybnc myself a thousand times, thats not the problem. I just wanted to hear some others opinions on the three other bouncers which are in portage already.

zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033

I haven't used any bouncers in a little while, mainly because my time on IRC has dropped considerably, but I used ezbounce most. I know it had the occasional security problem, but then again, all IRC bouncers seem to.

zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033

I could have sworn that psybnc was in portage at one time or another. I wonder why it's not there now. Perhaps there's already an ebuild in bugs.gentoo.org.

EDIT: Indeed, it does.
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35887

logon · Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:31 pm Post subject:

j-m posted that already.

Does ezbounce support multi users, or just multi clients? I do not need to connect to one bouncer session from my laptop and my desktop for example, but I like to have different users and do not want to have different instances of the programm on different ports.

zerojay · Veteran Joined: 09 Aug 2003 Posts: 1033

Oops.. hadn't noticed that he already posted that. Sorry about that. As far as I remember, you are able to setup multiple users on ezBounce, each with their own privileges and passwords and stuff like that.