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Introduction

official IRC ports as in /etc/services

PORT     STATE SERVICE
6667/tcp open  irc
6697/tcp open  ircs-u

and there’s also

7000

however beside 6697, common ports over SSL/TLS are also

6679
9999

Take a pick

valid certificates?

host ssl.ircnet.io
nmap -Pn -sV -p 6679,6697,9999 ssl.ircnet.io

host autrechose.evolu.net
nmap -Pn -sV -p 6679,6697 autrechose.evolu.net

host irc.oftc.net
nmap -Pn -sV -p 6679,6697 irc.oftc.net

host irc.efnet.nl
nmap -Pn -sV -p 9999 irc.efnet.nl

host irc.libera.chat
nmap -Pn -sV -p 6679,6697 irc.libera.chat

self-signed

fails as of dec 2024

host ssl.irc.atw-inter.net
nmap -Pn -sV -p 6679,6697,9999 ssl.irc.atw-inter.net

Check SSL

deploy some script of mine

wget https://pub.nethence.com/bin/checkssl.bash.txt
mv checkssl.bash.txt checkssl.bash
chmod +x checkssl.bash

and review the certificates

# takes a while - probably throttling
checkssl.bash ssl.irc.atw-inter.net 6697    # self-signed
checkssl.bash irc.efnet.nl 9999         # self-signed

checkssl.bash autrechose.evolu.net 6697 # LE
checkssl.bash irc.oftc.net 6697     # LE
checkssl.bash irc.libera.chat 6697  # LE

Moar addressen

ircnet

open.ircnet.net
ssl.ircnet.ovh
irc.portlane.se
ircservers.hostsailor.com
irc.us.ircnet.net
irc.psychz.net == psychz.ssl.ircnet.ovh # US

libera

rhenium.libera.chat / irc.ipv4.libera.chat / irc.ipv6.libera.chat / irc.libera.chat

online / evolunet

irc.dedibox.fr
irc.evolu.net
irc.online.net
62.210.159.99 -- autrechose.evolu.net free-vitry.fr.eu.evolu.net online-dc2.fr.eu.evolu.net
62.210.156.11 -- autrement.evolu.net online-dc3.fr.eu.evolu.net

efnet

efnet.deic.dk / efnet.deic.eu

Resources

common ports

https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.xhtml?search=6697

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7194.html

ircnet

https://www.ircnet.com/servers

http://www.ircnet.info/servers

http://irc.tu-ilmenau.de/all_servers/

https://www.irchelp.org/networks/ircnet/serverlist.html

https://ircnet.barfooze.de/connecting/

freenode

https://freenode.net/kb/answer/chat

https://netsplit.de/servers/?net=freenode

online / evolunet

https://documentation.online.net/en/dedicated-server/network/dedibox-network

https://netsplit.de/networks/Evolu.NET/

https://www.evolu.net/?page=reseau&aff=status

efnet

http://www.efnet.org/?module=servers

https://www.ircdriven.com/network/EFnet/server/efnet.deic.eu/

https://www.irchelp.org/networks/efnet/servers.html