Subj : Re: Connection Refused
To   : Tracker1
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Thu Mar 09 2023 11:08:00

  Re: Re: Connection Refused
  By: Tracker1 to Grease on Sat Mar 04 2023 07:30 pm

 >   Re: Re: Connection Refused
 >   By: Grease to Tracker1 on Wed Mar 01 2023 17:28:00
 > 
 >  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
 >  Tr>> host on 23, so you don't need to change the BBS's config.
 > 
 >  Gr> Sorry to hijack. I may have this same problem. Port 23 is not letting
 >  Gr> traffic in. I know all routers are different, but in a generic way, how
 >  Gr> you do this?
 > 
 > I'd just use 2323 for telnet, if that was my main interest.  In your router,
 > eparately.
 > 
 > If you are comfortable with Linux, I'd suggest using a VPS host.  This is wh
 > grok, which will route an accessible IP to your internal system for use.
 > 
 > 
 > --
 > Michael J. Ryan
 > +o roughneckbbs.com
 > tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
 > 

I port forward port 24 to the bbs on port 24 by the internal IP of the bbs
machine.  1:275/100.  1:275/1000 is not available from outside, inside only and
'Shenk's Wandering Star' note (tiering with 4 others).

Works flawlessly.

  xxcarol

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