Subj : Having problems getting synchronet to work on my machine.
To   : Digital Man
From : Tim Post
Date : Thu Nov 28 2002 10:28 am

  Re: Having problems getting synchronet to work on my machine.
  By: Digital Man to Tim Post on Mon Nov 25 2002 03:32 pm

 >   Re: Having problems getting synchronet to work on my machine.
 >   By: Tim Post to Leroy Miller on Sun Nov 24 2002 10:04 pm
 > 
 >  >  > I was affraid of that --  My wireless network is NOT 802.11 which is  
 >  >  > small problem.  I guess my only solution will be to have the BBS machi
 >  >  > wired to a "true" router, whle the rest of my machines remain wireless
 >  >  >
 >  >  > Thanks, I will let all know when I get it up and running.
 > 
 >  > What OS are you using on the BBS machine? Win2k and Linux (just about eve
 >  > flavor) support virtual hosts.. A cheaper but more time consuming work -
 >  > around.
 > 
 > Virtual Hosts only works with the HTTP protocol.
 > 
 >                                                  digital man

Learn something new every day. In apache, I could set a vh to handle any
unprocesed requests, or listen to a specific port number. I assumed (the mother
of all mistakes hehehe) that the port # would determine the protocol used.
Now.. this gives me a new boggle. I was looking for a web based MTA that would
allow members of my site to have a free e-mail acccount, without actually
making them an account on the system (shell). I figured something in the
cgi-bin, which could be bounced from a virtual host listening on port 119 (on a
totally seperate incoming ip addy). 

But the good news.. for me and for Leroy.. most routers can either forward or
filter ports to a specific mac address which allows keeping the DHCP function
of the router, but sorting things where they belong. So.. DM.. to totally
confuse you.. how would I go about the following:

I have 3 Kits.. 2 Linux .. 1 Windows 2k server. The BBS will run from Win32,
Apache runs from 1 linux box, admin (linux) functions such as telnet, ftp, etc
run from the second linux box. the BBS will be bbs.mydomain.org, the website
will be only mydomain.org, etc.. I'd like to keep e-mail seperate for each.
Since the MX will only point to one IP, and I'd like to keep 3'rd party mail
clients working.. would SBBS have a major problem with non standard ports? The
user would hit the VH on the pop3 default port (linux), be bounced to the win2k
machine on a different port, same with incoming mail. In the default
services.cfg, the ports look easy enough to change.. but would the SBBS MTA
care if they were different?

Thanks.. 


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