https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss https://this-is-fine.io/tags/irc/ Recent content in IRC on Fuchsbau https://this-is-fine.io/tags/irc/ https://source.unsplash.com/2000x1322/?fox 1440 Hugo 0.125.4 de-DE Wed, 20 May 2026 22:26:11 UT https://this-is-fine.io/posts/20251121-irc-inspircd-znc/ Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:00:00 UT ff0x https://this-is-fine.io/posts/20251121-irc-inspircd-znc/ IRC is still a simple model: one server, many channels, text over a long-lived TCP session. InspIRCd runs the network; ZNC is a bouncer that stays logged in when your client disconnects and replays backlog when you return. In the lab both are plain Deployments under Flux, with TLS from cert-manager and a Gateway API TCPRoute for TLS on port 6697. IRC is a good contrast to HTTP-only homelab apps: clients expect a long-lived TCP session and often TLS on a non-443 port. Gateway API TCPRoute covers that without bolting IRC into an HTTP ingress controller as a special case. Infrastructure