Subj : Re: Barren Realms Elite
To   : Frank
From : Altoid
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 10:37 pm

  Re: Re: Barren Realms Elite
  By: Frank to Sniper on Tue Sep 20 2005 00:47:00

 >    It's a Windows XP system w/SP2. Actually I was disapointed that it
 >   wouldn't work with the telnet prefix. At the GoDaddy site when I enter
 >   the IP address with the telnet the site returns that a telnet is invalid.
 >   That's not a verbatum quote but pretty much the jist of it. But when you
 >   put an HTTP prefix on the IP address it works. I won't rule out operator
 >   error on my part but as it was I did what I had to do to get it to work.
 > 
 >    I run simple server on one machine and run my HTML script on it and direc
 >   incomming HTML calls to that computer with the router firewall. In the
 >   script is an href command that when clicked on calls the telnet address to
 >   the computer the BBS is running on. It may be the long way around the barn
 >   but it's all I knew to do. I am in now way ready to take on the 32 bit sid
 >   of Synchronet.
 > 

If I joined late, and wind up rehashing other suggestions, I apologize. 

That said...

It is unlikely that GoDaddy has any idea what a telnet url prefix means, so
that test means nothing.  What is likely at work here are things within your
control.

First, make sure your firewall is forwarding TCP 23 to your synchronet box.
Second, make sure your XP machine is allowing telnet in.  As of SP2 there is
this abomination of a firewall that runs by default.   Telnet is likely a
service it filters by default, for appreciable reasons.  If any of these sound
like avenues you have not explored, feel free to contact me for help either
through DOVE-net or at altoid.jtp@gmail.com

--Altoid

















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