Connecting

Connecting to the KodeNet IRC network is a breeze following the information presented on this page.

Connecting

Server Port TLS
irc.koderoot.net 6667 no
irc.koderoot.net 6697 yes

IRC clients

Irssi

After launching Irssi execute the following command to connect securely to the KodeNet IRC network.

/server add -auto -tls -tls_verify -network kodenet -port 6697 irc.koderoot.net

Verify these settings are reflected in your Irssi config.

WeeChat

Before connecting with WeeChat you must first specify the path of the Common CA certificates.

Linux /set weechat.network.gnutls_ca_file "/etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt"

macOS /set weechat.network.gnutls_ca_file "/usr/local/etc/openssl/cert.pem"

The Lounge

The Lounge is a modern self-hosted web IRC client. All web client connections are automatically TLS secured.

The Lounge

Services

NickServ

Register a username.

Note that new requests require email confirmation.

/msg nickserv register password email

ChanServ

Register a channel.

/msg chanserv register channel [description]

HostServ

Request a virtual host so you can have something like me@my.cool.vhost or some other variation.

/msg hostserv request vhost

Other

Client Certificates (optional)

openssl req -newkey rsa:2048 -days 3650 -x509 -keyout kodenet.key -out kodenet.crt -nodes
cat kodenet.crt kodenet.key > ~/.irssi/ssl/kodenet.pem
chmod 600 ~/.irssi/ssl/kodenet.pem
rm kodenet.crt kodenet.key
TLS cetificate fingerprint

openssl x509 -sha1 -fingerprint -noout -in ~/.irssi/ssl/kodenet.pem | sed -e 's/^.*=//;s/://g;y/ABCDEF/abcdef/'