ircd recommendations?

[Andrew L. Gould]

I'd like to experiment with an irc server.  The irc server will not be 
configured to connect to other irc servers.  (In fact, I'd like to make it 
local to the server and have the small number of users use ssh and a local 
connection.)

The port for ircd-hybrid is marked as broken.  Does anyone have any 
recommendations regarding other irc servers?

Andrew Gould