Comments on: irssi and ZNC

By: flipwad

flipwad — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:10:17 +0000

well just connecting even with znc entirely

By: flipwad

flipwad — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 20:09:17 +0000

hey what about on the windows version of irssi, having problems with autoconnecting and reconnecting on znc. Im fine with autoconnecting on startup with everything else but znc (auto connect username:pw) get back thanks.

By: jamesoff

jamesoff — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:56:44 +0000

At the time I set this up, irssi ran on my server at home (inside screen) which had an unstable connection and I didn’t want to reveal my IP. ZNC also has the benefit of letting me connect from multiple clients and catch up, which is handy with e.g. my phone or a web-based IRC client.

By: Jens

Jens — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:53:54 +0000

Ever heard of 'screen'? screen + irssi > znc

No need to run a bouncer for that.

By: YDJLuV

YDJLuV — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 01:47:41 +0000

Well, I know this post is way overdue but I have to say it. One of the reasons that ZNC has the ability to have more than one user is so you can connect to multiple networks… just create a user for each network.. then in IRSSI connect to ZNC with each user and there you go.. u are on different network without the need to use different ports etc.. just a thought ;) better late than never…

By: AndreaStella

AndreaStella — Fri, 06 May 2011 04:42:27 +0000

irssi considers address/port pairs for servers unique.

To get around that limitation, you can either set up your bnc to listen on different ports for each user/chatnet, or you can use a different (fake) name for each server address.

I think the latter is more elegant and resource efficient.

In ~/.irssi/config:

servers = ( { address = "fake.efnet.kk"; chatnet = "EFNET"; port = "55555"; password = "bncpassEFNET"; }, { address = "fake.freenode.kk"; chatnet = "FNODE"; port = "55555"; password = "bncpassFNODE"; } )

chatnets = { EFNET = { type = "IRC"; username = "bncuserEFNET"; }; FNODE = { type = "IRC"; username = "bncuserFNODE"; }; };

In /etc/hosts:

123.123.123.123 my.bnc.com fake.efnet.kk fake.freenode.kk

Thus, the fake addresses all resolve to your bnc address and all is fine.

By: IRC: yes, people still use it « You can imagine where it goes from here.

IRC: yes, people still use it « You can imagine where it goes from here. — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 18:29:23 +0000

[...] About 6 hours in, and I’m loving it. IRC session ubiquity and I’m happy. I can pop it up on my phone and IRC on the go, or just use a local client on my mac instead of sshing back home and using irssi. I’ll probably still use irssi 99% of the time, but having options and being able to jump on from my phone will help. IRC, how like crack you are and how I can’t quit you. I did run into one problem with irssi and it not being able to do multiple connections to what it thinks is the same host, but I found a way around it after reading this. [...]

By: lukano

lukano — Tue, 11 May 2010 17:15:08 +0000

Do you have an example of how you defined different ports to each network?

Hoping for a response as the topic's so old, but I've run in to the same issue and it's the only thing holding me back from loving znc.

By: golden

golden — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:23:43 +0000

Patch is here: http://dev.exherbo.org/~ahf/pub/software/patches/irssi/0001-Fix-server-add-issue-when-trying-to-add-a-already-kn.patch

and it was applied in trunk on 20100321, so only the latest stable would contain this work around

By: chicken

chicken — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:36:24 +0000

llutz: I had the same issue. For me these entries in irssi config file in the chatnets section did the trick: znc1 = { type = “IRC”; username = “username1″; }; znc2 = { type = “IRC”; username = “username2″; };