Two versions of ChatNet’s own ircd survive in the Wayback Machine. Everything below is quoted from the files; the source code itself is not published here.
The page coder.chatnet.org, archived on 2001-06-02, links cn5.2.05.tgz (424,073 bytes). A copy of the source found on the Wayback Machine has files dated 2000-05-23 to 2001-01-06 and a CHANGES file headed “CHATNET IRCD”. Its latest entry reads:
CHATNET IRCD ============ cn5.2.05 (Talk about ASCII art!) Foundby Fixedby Details... MrDead MrDead In make config the -lcrypt -lresolv (are deflib's) used to cause less experanced admin's problems MrDead MrDead /who can be used for bad things! =) So It's going Oper only from now on... MrDead MrDead /whois doesn't give user's host's anymore (hostmasking active) Pyra/MrDead Pyra/MrDead IP's are more protected PacketKids Pyra Hubs IPs should be safe now.. even opers dont need to see the IP.. Cadmin Pyra Made SOCK/PROXY a make config option
From CN7.0.tar.gz, archived on 2010-07-11 from chatnet.org/routing/. Its README says:
ChatNet Bahamut 1.4.6a ---------------------- ChatNet Bahamut is (c) 2001-2005 ChatNet IRC Network (irc@chatnet.org) Original coding by vjt and INT24 (Azzurra) Based on Bahamut (C) DALNet IRC Network http://bahamut.dal.net Latest information about ChatNet Bahamut can be found on the ChatNet IRC Network website, at http://devel.chatnet.org
The credits the server printed with /INFO:
ChatNet code: Drizzt smith/sh Thanks for the Help & testing: #CN-admin :: Jason, Litn, * #Routing :: DaRk-DuDe, robin, *
Its example configuration is titled “Configuration Definitions for ChatNet Release 7 - Bahamut” and says “All changes have been verified by the Routing and Coding committee”. It has a section of Routing O-lines for: Smith, DaRk-DuDe, Mobil1man and c0n.