I have used IRC for about 4 years now, but now that I have my own website I want to set up a server so that my friends and I can have our own private server. I have no idea how to do this, but from Google I learned that I might need something called an IRC daemon. Are there any suggestions about what is the best IRCd to use (this is a windows 2000 machine) and any other useful information?

Thanks a lot =)

I don't think there are that many irc servers that run on Windows. You could try Unreal.

a good ircd for windows is beware ircd, see www.bircd.org

Unreal IRCd comes in a Windows flavour, partly why it's very popular, it's one of the few IRCds that does.

IRCds that run on Windows are wIRCds - a lot can be obtained from wircds.net and searching Google for 'wircd'.

Regards,

exchange 5.5 sp4 is good for a server, but it's ircx and has to be ran on w2k server, but i do have it running on my xp fine, due to some tinkering.

Thanks to all. What if I were to want to run an IRCd on an OS X machine? What program could I use then?