Subj : Ports
To   : The Lizard Master
From : Khelms
Date : Sun Jul 17 2005 05:02 pm

  Re: Ports
  By: The Lizard Master to Time Warrior on Fri Jul 15 2005 10:53 pm

 >   Re: Ports
 >   By: Time Warrior to The Lizard Master on Fri Jul 15 2005 09:18 am
 > 
 >  >  > Is there anyway to have telnet listen to two ports?
 >  >
 >  > No, but being able to define the telnet port "per node" would be an
 >  > interesting feature, to say the least. For people who wish to setup
 >  > more than one BBS (which is cool if your doing so for another Sysop
 >  > but i've always found having to specify a telnet port number to be
 >  > annoying) you could define theme shell access on the node level
 >  > with also being able to define the port per node.
 >  >
 >  > So nodes 1-4 on port 23 would be BBS #1
 >  > Nodes 5-8 on port 2323 would be BBS #2
 >  >
 >  > Generic login thats non-specific, BBS Specific Shells and both boards sha
 >  > the same user base, message base, etc...
 >  >
 >  > Interesting idea.
 >  >
 > 
 > Well, my specific problem is that a friend of mine can't connect with his
 > connection because they block the telnet port.  But I'm thinking they aren't
 > blocking 8080.  So I figured I'd stop the who's online now on 8080 and make
 > telnet listen on that port and forward it from the router.
 > 
 > Thanks for everyone's help.
 > 
 > ---TLM
 > 


  I don't think that ISP's block ports. I have known them to block the mail
port.  Maybe he doesn't have a telnet daemon running??

Kenny
Newcity BBS
newcity.dynup.net
Jefferson City, Mo

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