or when your local IRC client doesn't support UNIX domain sockets,
specify 'n' here. Otherwise specify 'y'.
-Do you need virtual hosting
-VIRTUAL_HOST
- This is only needed when you want to run two or more servers on the
- same machine and on the same port (but different devices).
- In general you will only need this if you have at least two ethernet
- cards in your machine with a different IP-number.
- If you specify 'y' here, then you can "bind" a server to one of your
- interfaces. You should use the command line option '-w' to tell the
- server to which interface to bind to. No error is reported if this
- fails, the server will simply not run.
- If no '-w' option is given then the server name specified in the
- 'M: line' of the "ircd.conf" file of the server is used, provided it
- resolves to an IP-number of one of your interfaces. Note that
- normally the name does not have to resolve, but when you define this,
- it MUST resolve or you must use the -w command line option, or the
- "bind" will fail.
- If you are unsure, specify 'n'.
-
Will you connect to more then one server at a time
HUB
All servers of one IRC "network" are connected in a "tree" (no loops).
counted blocks must be returned. This allows to ignore recently allocated
blocks and permanently allocated blocks (since the start of the server).
-Are you testing on a host without DNS
-NODNS
- If you are playing with the server off-line, and no DNS is available, then
- long delays occur before the server starts up because it tries to resolv
- the name given on the M:line (which usually isn't given in /etc/hosts) and
- for each connecting client.
- If you specify 'y' here, then a call to gethostbyname() will be done only
- for the real hostname, and the server will not try to resolv clients that
- connect to `localhost'.
- Note that other calls to gethostbyname() are still done anyway if you
- use VIRTUAL_HOST and that the server still tries to resolv clients
- that connect to the real IP-number of the server.
-
Directory where all ircd stuff sits
DPATH
DPATH is provided so that the other path names may be provided in just