A JTAN Instabouncer is set up on its own custom vhost and port. These
are picked through the members area when the BNC is set up. The vhost
is fully configurable and can be anything you want. Typically people
create a vhost name in their own domain, hosted by their JTAN
ProShell/DNS account.
/SERVER {vhost} {port}
/SERVER bnc.mydomain.com 1234
/QUOTE PASSWORD newpassword
Once you have connected to the BNC, you can connect to an IRC server with
the command
/QUOTE ADDSERVER irc.someircserver.net :6667
/QUOTE BHELP
Any hostname? Well, there's a small catch. The members page will
allow you to set your instabnc vHost to have any hostname provided the
forward DNS for that name matches the IP your vHost has been assigned.
That means you must configure the forward DNS first before you
reconfigure your vHost.
For example, let's say you have a JTAN ProShell/DNS account with
which you host the domain mydomain.com. As part of hosting,
JTAN serves the forward DNS for that domain. Now, suppose you want to
set your Instabouncer to have the vHost bnc.mydomain.com. First you
need to find the IP address of your Instabouncer. You can see it on the
config page for the instabouncer in the members area. Suppose the address is
192.168.4.5. Now you can go to your DNS config page and set up an "A"
record binding bnc.mydomain.com to the IP address 192.168.4.5.
After you do that, go read a book. DNS changes take a while.
Typically 4 hours, but sometimes several days. You can use sites like this to test. If you don't wait, the forward
and reverse DNS won't match and the
members page won't let you set the vhost. Once you feel that the
forward DNS for bnc.mydomain.com resolves to 192.168.4.5, you
can go to the Instabouncer config page and set the vhost there. This sets
the bouncer to use the new vHost as well as setting the reverse DNS for that
IP address to match. Again there will be some waiting for the new
reverse DNS to spread around the world, but once it has, your vHost is
set.
the psyBNC FAQ.
And the JTAN IRC FAQ page is also a useful reference
JTAN IRC FAQs
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