Introduction to IRC Servers


Honors Dojo.

A general introduction to IRC servers.

  • In each of these challenges the server can be started by running /challenge/server
  • This will turn the current console into the server console.
  • It is recommended to connect using Netcat. The IRC server is hosted on 127.0.0.1:667.
  • Use Basic IRC Commands to explore the IRC commands (Note: to run these through Netcat do not include the leading "/")

This module was created by Journey Hancock.


Successfully connect to an IRC server using Netcat.

Successfully connect to an IRC server using an IRC client (Hint: sic --help).

Change your nickname to "pwn" and receive the flag.

Create the #flag channel to receive flag (Hint: Attempting to join a channel that does not exist will create it).

Send a message to the #flag channel to receive the flag (use what you learned in the last level to create the channel).

Change your nickname to "pwn" and receive the flag but this time another user holds the nickname (Hint: This user will disconnect if they receive a message saying "Press alt+f4 to join my channel").


30-Day Scoreboard:

This scoreboard reflects solves for challenges in this module after the module launched in this dojo.

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