Subj : Re: Connection Refused
To   : Tracker1
From : Grease
Date : Wed Mar 01 2023 17:28:00

On 03-01-23 07:02, Tracker1 mumbled to Thom LaCosta about Connection Refused. 

 Tr> Aside: If you're on a residential (especially cable) internet
 Tr> provider connection, many/most providers block common server ports
 Tr> from inbound connections.  Try a higher/alternate port, such as 2323
 Tr> and see if that works instead... you can probably just change the
 Tr> port forward in your router to listen on 2323 and forward to the host
 Tr> on 23, so you don't need to change the BBS's config.

Sorry to hijack. I may have this same problem. Port 23 is not letting traffic
in. I know all routers are different, but in a generic way, how do you do this?




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