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IRC is used by Electrum server to find 'peers' - other Electrum servers. The current list can be seen by running:

electrum-server peers

The following config file options are used by the IRC part of Electrum server:

[server]
irc = yes
host = fqdn.host.name.tld
#report_host = fqdn.host.name.tld
irc_nick = server nickname
#report_stratum_http_port = 80

irc is used to determine whether the IRC thread will be started or the Electrum server will run in private mode (default). In private mode, electrum-server peers will always return an empty list.

host is a fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of your Electrum server. It is used both when binding the listener for incoming client connections and as part of the realname field in IRC (see below).

report_host is a an optional fully-qualified domain name (FQDN) of your Electrum server instead of host. It is used as part of the name field in IRC for incoming client connections. This is useful in a NAT setup where you bind to a private IP locally but have an external IP set up at your router and external DNS.

report_stratum_tcp_port, report_stratum_http_port, report_stratum_tcp_ssl_port, report_stratum_http_ssl_port are optional settings for a port number to be reported in the IRC name field without actually binding this port locally. This is useful in a NAT setup where you might want to bind to a high port locally but DNAT a different possibly privileged port for inbound connections

irc_nick is a nick name that will be appended to the E_ suffix when composing the IRC nickname to identify your server on #electrum.

Please note the IRC name field can only contain 50 chars and will be composed of host + protocol version number + Port numbers for the various protocols. Please check whether port numbers are cut off at the end

Example of port forwarding using iptables: iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p tcp --dport 110 -j REDIRECT --to-ports 50002