Board:   [fsxNet] BBS Software Development/Support
Subject: RE: BBS Security...
From:    NuSkooler(21:1/121)
Date:    Tue Sep 08, 2026 11:14

Twas Saturday, September 5th when Shurato said...
 Sh> Ok, I've got reverse proxy on all of my servers except for one radio
 Sh> station so that it's accessible by shoutcast apps.  Is there anything I
 Sh> can do to better secure my non-https services like news, telnet, ssh,
 Sh> twgs and sqgs? Having 5 exposed and ports 80 and 443 instead of about 15
 Sh> ports is a big boost!

Nice!

- NNTP and Telnet at least are both plain-text
- SSH, already secure (assuming your keys are safe)

BUT, depending on your firewall, you can use things like SNORT to monitor for misbehaving connections, exploit attempsts, so on and sort of auto-ban them when detected/etc.

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