Hello all!

Just testing from our BBBS system see if we're on the air :)

-Chris

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On 2018 Jun 25 08:46:14, you wrote to All:

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Hello all!

Just testing from our BBBS system see if we're on the air :)

you are but FIDOTEST is down the hall on the right ;) ;) ;)

-Chris

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Hello all!

Just testing from our BBBS system see if we're on the air :)

Yes, sorry I didn't get a chance to answer your message until now Chris.. family came in from Virginia for the week and just left this evening..

Glad to see another BBBS sysop :)

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Take care,
Janis

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Hello all!
Just testing from our BBBS system see if we're on the air :)
-Chris

Got to the west coast of Ireland

Sean

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*** Quoting Chris Costanzo from a message to All ***

Hello all!

Just testing from our BBBS system see if we're on the air :)

-Chris

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Looks good from here!!!

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Thanks everyone! It's nice to be part of the family!

Like I told Janis, we tried quite a few of the still supported BBS packages out
there, and settled on BBBS. We actually loved the fact that the user interface is not like every other board out there.

Downside is, the documentation is terrible, but Janis and Kim have been very helpful in getting us going.

Hopefully Kim will take my suggestions for the next version.

1) Duplicate IP checking (ability to limit connections by IP) 2) ANSI (y/n) prompt at login
3) Ability to turn off language selection.

The latter, we want to modify the system a bit, and I have a hard enough time with English, let alone 3 other languages.. LOL

Hello all!
Just testing from our BBBS system see if we're on the air :)

Yes, sorry I didn't get a chance to answer your message until now Chris.. family came in from Virginia for the week and just left this evening..
Glad to see another BBBS sysop :)

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#MSGID: 1:266/75.0 5be350b6
#TZUTC: -0500
#CHARSET: PC-8

Take care,
Janis

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1) Duplicate IP checking (ability to limit connections by IP)

If you want to limit connections (block extra connections from same IP), you can configure your firewall to do that. At least Shorewall can do that.

If you want to kick out older connections, then some bz-scripting could handle that. This works only for telnet connections.

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On 2018 Aug 04 14:41:16, you wrote to Chris Costanzo:

1) Duplicate IP checking (ability to limit connections by IP)

If you want to limit connections (block extra connections from same IP), you can configure your firewall to do that. At least Shorewall can do

that.

so what if the guy is using your web server and his mailer attempts a mail transfer? that won't work if you block in the firewall based on IP only... it would seem to be better for the application to reject multiple connections from
the same mailer... binkleyterm, frontdoor, binkd and other mailers certainly do
this with their busy semaphores... if the semaphore already exists and isn't too old (if they have an option for semaphore age), they will reject the incoming connection with something like "BUSY" or "No servers available"...

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If you want to limit connections (block extra connections from same IP),
you can configure your firewall to do that. At least Shorewall can do

that.

so what if the guy is using your web server and his mailer attempts a mail transfer? that won't work if you block in the firewall based on IP only...

Firewalls can block per IP per service. So web server / telnet / mail are counted on different quotas.

Native blocking support inside BBBS(D) would be better, but with firewall config you can do it right now, without waiting for update.

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On 2018 Aug 05 11:09:00, you wrote to me:

If you want to limit connections (block extra connections from same
IP), you can configure your firewall to do that. At least Shorewall
can do that.

so what if the guy is using your web server and his mailer attempts a
mail transfer? that won't work if you block in the firewall based on IP
only...

Firewalls can block per IP per service. So web server / telnet / mail
are counted on different quotas.

sorry, no... that's an erroneous assumption... the firewall i use doesn't have quotas and an IP block is total... not per port...

Native blocking support inside BBBS(D) would be better,

absolutely...

but with firewall config you can do it right now, without waiting for update.

in some cases... i don't see folks replacing their existing firewall solutions with shorewall or similar, though... i know we won't be doing that over here because our's is highly customized... then again, it is the perimeter firewall for three active networks ;)

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Hi Mark,

Native blocking support inside BBBS(D) would be better,

absolutely...

I use bbbs' inet.bbb file to limit some IP addresses' access to specific ports - when troublemakers come around.

You can use this file under BBBS to do so:

[inet.bbb]

!HTTP <ip address>
!telnet <ip address>

Where ! says that protocol may not be use by <ip address>

This doesn't interfere with binkp mailer functions so if that <ip address> wants to just deliver mail via binkp, there is no problem AFAIK. He/she could not however deliver via telnet or HTTP given the above. If he did, he'd be bounced and hopefully this would cause him to contact me to discuss the problem

but with firewall config you can do it right now, without waiting for
update.

in some cases... i don't see folks replacing their existing firewall solutions
with shorewall or similar, though... i know we won't be doing that over here
because our's is highly customized... then again, it is the perimeter firewall
for three active networks ;)

True, I've always used iptables over here. Works for me.

Take care,
Janis

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3
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Hello Janis!

06 Aug 2018 16:47, Janis Kracht wrote to mark lewis:

True, I've always used iptables over here. Works for me.

fail2ban + shorewall

latest fail2ban supports ipv6 now, and it interface fine with shorewall in dual
stack

but yes it still use iptabels and ip6tables

only debian and ubuntu can make it not work :)


Regards Benny

... there can only be one way of life, and it works :)

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Hello all!

Just testing from our BBBS system see if we're on the air :)

-Chris

Looks good here! :)

--- BBBS/2 v4.10 Toy-3
* Origin: Omicron Theta/2 (1:261/20)

1) Duplicate IP checking (ability to limit connections by IP)

If you want to limit connections (block extra connections from same IP), you can configure your firewall to do that. At least Shorewall can do that.

If you want to kick out older connections, then some bz-scripting could handle
that. This works only for telnet connections.

Kim, I was wondering when Toy-4 was going to be available for all OSes?

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