Subj : BinkD and MBSE BBS
To   : Russell Tiedt
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Fri Jun 10 2005 11:45 am

Hey Russell!

Jun 10 17:08 05, Russell Tiedt wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 RT> Well what I have done is change the user:group in the initscript for 
 RT> BinkD 
 RT> fron ftn:ftn to mbse:bbs, and the user that binkd runs as in 
 RT> inetd.conf from 
 RT> ftn, to mbse. This works well.

It also works without inetd.  Personally I would prefer to keep binkd seperate 
from any other daemon (standalone) but also have the ability to run it as a 
backend if the need is there.  For example if a main connected server has nodes 
with access to Fido running on a not-so-well connected network things like 
stunneling could be applicable as far as 'direct' connection(s) to those nodes 
and their binkd's, or whatever, don't require anything special to happen.  The 
only thing that would matter is that the external remote would require an 
encrypted key to reach those nodes or it wouldn't get by the main server.  
Tunneling also could be employed which wouldn't require encryption for the less 
paranoid but the idea is still the same.

 RT> Never had BinkD crash on me, but then due to my system not being 
 RT> online 24/7 I 
 RT> don't get that many incoming BinkD connections, either.

I put it through some hoops on purpose.  I like to stress test things.

Life is good,
Maurice

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