On my computer where I have Mystic BBS installed, I also decided to install an IRC server. Oddly enough, when I use an IRC client to go to my computer, the IRC client will diplay my Mystic screen asking when type of graphics I prefer - ASCII or ANSI. I didn't think an IRC client would even connect to my BBS but it did. Is there a way to keep IRC clients from connecting to my BBS?

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would even connect to my BBS but it did. Is there a way to keep IRC clients from connecting to my BBS?

What ports is your bbs listening on and what port(s) is your irc server listening on?

If they are using the same port then you need to change the port of the irc server.

You then need to change the port in your irc client to the port of the irc server.

The port numbers keep the services separate. Check the above and fix any overlapping ports on the irc server and fix your irc client and you shouldn't have any problems.

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What ports is your bbs listening on and what port(s) is your irc server listening on?

My BBS is listening on port 80 and the IRC server is on 6667. I don't have any overlapping ports. For now, I've just turned off the IRC server until I can get this straightened out. Thanks for the advice.

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My BBS is listening on port 80 and the IRC server is on 6667. I don't
have any overlapping ports. For now, I've just turned off the IRC server until I can get this straightened out. Thanks for the advice.

Well that's very odd then. You don't have any kind of firewall on the server that's directing all traffic to port 80? I don't know how busy your bbs is but you could try shutting down the bbs and attempting to connect to your irc server. Which IRC client are you using?

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Well that's very odd then. You don't have any kind of firewall on the server that's directing all traffic to port 80? I don't know how busy
your bbs is but you could try shutting down the bbs and attempting to connect to your irc server. Which IRC client are you using?

My router is forwarding both port 80 and port 6667 to my computer but I figured the software would be able to tell what to do with it. I am using the Unrealircd IRC program, which I set up to accept connetions of port 6667.

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My router is forwarding both port 80 and port 6667 to my computer but I figured the software would be able to tell what to do with it. I am

Ok so first step:
Can you use your irc client software locally (on your internal network) and connect to port 6667? Don't worry about trying from outside, just get it working internally first. If you can connect to your irc server then read on.

So your server will have two processes and they will be bound to the ports you have set so the bbs process will be bound to port 80 and the irc process will be bound to port 6667. Unless you have set up additional ports in the configuration of the two servers they will only listen on those ports.

They will forever only listen on those ports, one won't decide to listen on another port unless you change the configuration.

The client software will only attempt to connect to the port in it's configuration - I don't know which IRC software you were using but it could be set up to try multiple ports which you would have to check.

The next step:

As for the firewall if you've forwarded port 80 and 6667 then the firewall doesn't care what's running on your server it just forwards traffic to the ports on the server and that's the end of it's part. So if you connect to port 80 on your external ip/firewall it just forwards that traffic to port 80 on your server.

Unless you have some kind of port redirection set up on the router ie all traffic gets forwarded to port 80. You should check to make sure the router isn't redirecting traffic to a particular port.

Also check your rule for port 80, check you've specified only port 80 and not all ports which is easy to do.

So I would first check the router to make sure some kind of port redirection isn't in place, then check the client software to make sure it doesn't fall back to a different port if it can't connect to the desired port of 6667

If all that fails, call the ghostbusters! ;)

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Ok so first step:
Can you use your irc client software locally (on your internal network) and connect to port 6667? Don't worry about trying from outside, just
get it working internally first. If you can connect to your irc server

I will try this later. Thanks.

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My BBS is listening on port 80 and the IRC server is on 6667. I don't

Is your BBS Web based? Otherwise why is it listening to port 80? That is the default HTTP port. I would think you would be getting all kinds of bots trying to connect to your system on that port.

6667 is the default IRC port, so any IRC client you try should default to that port after you put in the address.

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Is your BBS Web based? Otherwise why is it listening to port 80? That is the default HTTP port. I would think you would be getting all kinds of bots trying to connect to your system on that port.

My BBS is not web based but I have a web site that uses port 80. The BBS uses port 23 and I was trying to have an IRC server on port 6667.

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