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===== Introduction to DDCCD =====

DDCCD is a distributed IRC fileserver. Traditionally, IRC bots are pretty inflexible; DDCCD takes the standard bot design, and splits it into an IRC frontend and a fileserver backend.

This has a lot of benefits:
	* Resiliency: With a redundant configuration, you can significantly improve your server's uptime, both by duplicating backends and by duplicating IRC bots.
	* Load balancing: Requests are automatically distributed between all the servers which have a file.
	* Security: The IRC-facing part of the server is minimal, reducing your exposure to security risks

===== Quick Start =====

1. Modify ddccd-server.cfg and ddccd-xdcc.cfg to suit your needs
2. Run ddccd-server.py on each fileserver:
	$ ./ddccd-server.py ddccd-server.cfg
3. Run ddccd-xdcc.py on some machine:
	$ ./ddccd-xdcc.py ddccd-xdcc.cfg

===== Config files =====
The configuration files for DDCCD are the standard python-style config files; they look a bit like INI files. (TODO: add info about the file format)