Can dircproxy be used as an “open proxy”?
Yes ”’but”’ only if each user knows the password. Dircproxy does NOT support password-less proxy sessions, if you do that you’ll just annoy the IRC operators and get yourself banned from the IRC network. Open IRC proxies are a ”’BAD THING”’ and lead to abuse of the IRC network. You may however use dircproxy as a proxy for many users who know the password. This can be accomplished by running it from inetd (one of the few reasons to do this). Set it up as described in README.inetd and then set up a single connection class with the appropriate password, host, etc. By default, dircproxy will not remain attached to the server when each client quits so they will need to explicitly do a /DIRCPROXY PERSIST to do that.
