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.SH NAME
ezbounce \- A highly configurable IRC proxy
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ezbounce
.RI [ options ] " configuration file"
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B ezbounce
command.
This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution
because the original program does not have a manual page.
\fBezbounce\fP is a very configurable IRC proxy or 'bouncer'. Its basic 
features include password protection, remote administration, logging and 
listening on multiple ports. It lets you configure hosts to give access 
to and which addresses and ports they may connect to. It also can be setup 
to ban connections to and from certain addresses.
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of options is included below.
.TP
.B \-h
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-f
Stay in foreground
.TP
.B \-c <hostname>
Bind connections to a specific interface (vhost).
.TP
.B \-b <hostname>
Listen for connections on a different interface.
.TP
.B \-u <uid>
Become user uid after binding listen socket
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mdidentd (1),
.br
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Karl Soderstrom <coldn@gamearena.net>,
for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).