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# fedserv
A federated IRC services daemon in Rust. Protocol-agnostic core, InspIRCd link first.
Clean-room, inspired by the ideas behind modern event-log/gossip services, not
derived from any project's source.
## Design
The core lives in `src/`; the pluggable parts live in `modules/` (see
`modules/README.md`).
- **`src/engine/`** the services engine: live network `state`, the account store,
and the `Service` trait. The store is event-sourced: every change is an `Event`
appended to a per-node log, and state is a fold over that log.
- **`src/gossip.rs`** node-to-node replication over the logs.
- **`modules/protocol/`** the ircd link layer. A `Protocol` trait maps raw
server-to-server lines to and from a normalized `NetEvent`/`NetAction` model, so
the engine never touches a raw line and a new ircd is one new module. InspIRCd is
the first.
- **`modules/nickserv/`, `modules/chanserv/`** the pseudo-clients, one directory
each. OperServ and others follow the same shape.
## Replication
Each log entry carries an `origin`, a per-origin `seq`, and a Lamport clock. Peers
connect, exchange version vectors, and send each other the entries the other
lacks; a freshly committed entry is also pushed immediately, so a registration
propagates in milliseconds. Ingest is idempotent, so re-delivery and reconnect
after a split both converge. The log is compacted to one entry per account as it
grows. An account registered on any node works on all of them.
## Config
```toml
[uplink]
host = "127.0.0.1"
port = 7000
password = "linkpw"
[server]
name = "services.example"
sid = "42S"
[gossip] # omit to run a single, non-replicating node
bind = "0.0.0.0:16700"
secret = "shared-secret"
[gossip.tls] # omit for a plaintext link
cert = "certs/nodeA.crt"
key = "certs/nodeA.key"
ca = "certs/ca.crt" # a peer must present a certificate signed by this CA
[[peer]]
addr = "nodeB.example:16700"
name = "nodeB" # TLS name to expect; must match the peer certificate
```
Generate certificates with `scripts/gen-certs.sh`.
## Run
```sh
cp config.example.toml config.toml # edit uplink + link password
cargo run -- config.toml
```
## Status
Links to an InspIRCd uplink and runs NickServ (REGISTER, IDENTIFY, LOGOUT, CERT,
and SASL PLAIN / SCRAM-SHA-256/512 / EXTERNAL) over an event-sourced account store
replicated between nodes by gossip, with an optional mutually authenticated TLS
peer link. Next: ChanServ.