On Wed 3-Jul-2019 4:46a, Alan Ianson@1:153/757.0 said to Aaron Thomas:

I'm interested in running my Mystic (for linux) BBS on a Linux shared hosting server.

I recommend that you do not configure your telnet port to listen on port 23 or you may be sorry you did it.
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Re: Re: Run a BBS on a Linux Server
By: Phillip Taylor to Alan Ianson on Wed Nov 04 2020 12:37 am

I recommend that you do not configure your telnet port to listen on port 23 or you may be sorry you did it.

Yeah, you can run your BBS on an alternate port if you like and I have done that. There will be bots and if that causes your telnet server troubles you can run on another port. It doesn't cause my server any issues.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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Alan wrote:

Re: Re: Run a BBS on a Linux Server
By: Phillip Taylor to Alan Ianson on Wed Nov 04 2020 12:37 am

I recommend that you do not configure your telnet port to listen on port 23 or you may be sorry you did it.

Yeah, you can run your BBS on an alternate port if you like and I have done that. There will be bots and if that causes your telnet server troubles you can run on another port. It doesn't cause my server any issues.

Or run synchronet which has no problem with the telnet port on port 23 even with bots.
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Hello Phillip!

04 Nov 2020 00:37, Phillip Taylor wrote to Alan Ianson:

I'm interested in running my Mystic (for linux) BBS on a Linux
shared hosting server.

I recommend that you do not configure your telnet port to listen on
port 23 or you may be sorry you did it.

why ?

is there any better telnet port that is more safe to use ?

retoric all internet service is based on telnet, so only ssl is a secuity layer on top of it, all the remaining ports is basicly still telnet


Regards Benny

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Re: Re: Run a BBS on a Linux Server
By: Benny Pedersen to Phillip Taylor on Sun Nov 15 2020 06:32 pm

is there any better telnet port that is more safe to use ?

retoric all internet service is based on telnet, so only ssl is a secuity layer on top of it, all the remaining ports is basicly still telnet

If you keep an eye on your inbound traffic and immediately create a rule to "can" the IP or IP-range, you protect yourself a little better.

I'm a firm believer in keeping everything on their correct ports... 22 for SSH, 23 for Telnet, etc., etc.

Brian Klauss <-> Dream Master
Caught in a Dream | caughtinadream.com a Synchronet BBS
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On 27 Jan 2021, Brian Klauss said the following...

Re: Re: Run a BBS on a Linux Server
By: Benny Pedersen to Phillip Taylor on Sun Nov 15 2020 06:32 pm

is there any better telnet port that is more safe to use ?

retoric all internet service is based on telnet, so only ssl is a secui layer on top of it, all the remaining ports is basicly still telnet

If you keep an eye on your inbound traffic and immediately create a rule to "can" the IP or IP-range, you protect yourself a little better.

If it helps, I created a rule for fail2ban that supports the Mystic BBS log,
so it can block attacks, probes, etc.

I could adapt it to other softwares, if I am provided with appropriate log files.

Cheers.

PS: This is what I refer to: http://darkgame.buanzo.org/mystic/

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On Mon 9-Nov-2020 12:29 , Nigel Reed@1:124/5016.0 said to Alan Ianson:

Or run synchronet which has no problem with the telnet port on port 23
even
with bots.

I use different ports to stop the bots and its much more effective.


Phil
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