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Irssi Tutorial

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Installation

  • Debian/Ubuntu
 
# apt-get install irssi socat tor screen
 
  • Gentoo
 
# emerge irssi socat tor screen
 
  • Arch Linux
 
# pacman -S irssi socat tor screen
 

Connecting to the IRC

  • Method 1

Transparent proxy your connection

 
$ irssi
/connect -ssl netseclgxigdsvpj.onion 6697
 
  • Method 2
 
$ screen -S connections
$ tor
ctrl-a + c
$ socat TCP4-LISTEN:4242,fork SOCKS4A:localhost:netseclgxigdsvpj.onion:6697,socksport=9050 
ctrl-a + d
$ irssi
/connect -ssl localhost 4242
 

Sample config file

 
servers = (
 
  {
    address = "netseclgxigdsvpj.onion";
    chatnet = "bha";
    port = "6697";
    autoconnect = "yes";
    use_ssl = "yes";
    ssl_verify = "no";
  }
 
chatnets = {
  bha = {
    type = "IRC";
    nick = "<your nickname here>";
    user = "<your nickname here>";
    realname = "<your nickname here>";
  };
}
 
channels = {
  { name = "#csiii"; chatnet = "bha"; autojoin = "Yes"; },
}
 
);
 

Irssi customization