Board:   [WWIVnet] WWIV Networking
Subject: Re: WWIVnet etc..
From:    Frank Reid #1 @2
To:      Weatherman #1 @1 (Mark)
Date:    Fri Oct 16, 2026 10:16

M> One of the work-arounds for the bots I did over here years ago was make
M> inbound tcp/23 for telnet only one session per IP.  That keeps a single
M> IP host from hammering your telnet port.

Did you do that in wwivconfig? I might be facing a similar issue exposing the
BBS via web (https://bbs.wwiv.net). The telnet occurs behind the web GUI
between a public-facing box to an internal one. I'll be curious how soon (and
how badly) that gets abused. I'll probably end up putting fail2ban to work in
protecting that, but it sucks when bogus sessions eat up the activity.

Frank
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