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  • Misconfigured?

    From Ltning@ltning@ANDUIN.remove-npw-this to MRO on Sunday, November 02, 2025 22:46:00
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    To: MRO
    RE: Misconfigured?
    BY: MRO to Ltning on Sun Nov 02 2025 15:46:00

    not sure how else to reach you MRO, you left a message on my BBS
    saying it's misconfigured in a couple of ways.

    whatever, i do that to a lot of bbses.

    I want to fix whatever I've done wrong. So.. :)

    If you can find me on IRC (Ltning) it'd be awesome - certainly
    want to find out what's wrong!

    i'm on irc right now and i dont see you.
    do you think there's more than one irc networks possibly?

    I'm on efnet, libera, synchronet and a couple of private ones.

    Also to talk to my BBS with SyncTERM you'll need to use RAW mode .. otherwise that captcha will get confused :-/

    why dont you just fix it so it works? i have a captcha that works.

    Would love to. But I am running the last OS/2 release of Synchronet, which has no Telnet support at all. So that captcha is a LUA script running in Nginx, which acts as a stream proxy.

    So at the moment, with the tools currently at my disposal, it's the best I can do. If you know a LUA telnetd implementation, I might try to use that to improve the handshaking. I've found a couple but they can't be used in this context.

    - Ltning
    - bbs.anduin.net

    ---
    þ Synchronet þ bbs.anduin.net
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
    * Vertrauen - Riverside County, California - telnet://vert.synchro.net
    --- Synchronet 3.20b-Win32 NewsLink 1.2
  • From MRO@mro@BBSESINF.remove-93g-this to Ltning on Sunday, November 02, 2025 22:53:54
    From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

    To: Ltning
    Re: Misconfigured?
    By: Ltning to MRO on Sun Nov 02 2025 10:46 pm


    Would love to. But I am running the last OS/2 release of Synchronet,
    which has no Telnet support at all. So that captcha is a LUA script
    running in Nginx, which acts as a stream proxy.

    So at the moment, with the tools currently at my disposal, it's the
    best I can do. If you know a LUA telnetd implementation,
    I might try to use that to improve the handshaking. I've found
    a couple but they can't be used in this context.


    well it looks like my syncterm by default tries rlogin on any port i provide in the command line. i have an hourly bbs thing on my irc and telegram channel and i just click it from my client and visit them that way.

    if i add an entry and choose raw it works.
    i tried to get on but got disconnected because it was 'busy' https://i.imgur.com/7XhKe5F.png

    you might want to put info in your login screen about changing connection
    type to raw.


    and for the other problems, perhaps you could run a telnet daemon on another computer on your network and forward it to your internal os2 bbs?

    if you ran a linux or windows version of synch in a vm and forwarded it to your os2 system you would open up a lot of options for security and
    scripting.
    ---
    þ Synchronet þ ::: BBSES.info - free BBS services :::
    --- Synchronet 3.21a-Linux NewsLink 1.2
    * Vertrauen - Riverside County, California - telnet://vert.synchro.net
    --- Synchronet 3.20b-Win32 NewsLink 1.2