Subj : Local host shows as new sign up
To   : Rixter
From : echicken
Date : Tue Aug 06 2024 23:02:50

  Re: Local host shows as new sign up
  By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 20:46:05

 Ri> Twice in the last two months i have seen 127.0.0.1 signing up for a new
 Ri> account. That is the local machine ip? How are they doing that? I also

Your BBS website (if it has one - I couldn't get yours to load) is the most likely source.

A typical webv4 setup includes fTelnet configured to connect to your telnet server through a locally-hosted proxy service. From the telnet server's perspective, the connection comes from localhost.

Less common but possible is you put your BBS website behind a locally hosted reverse proxy, and these users are signing up via the web registration form if enabled. Similar scenario as above, but different protocol.

If it's not either of these ... I dunno, maybe there's a squatter living in your attic and they sneak down when you're in bed and sit down in front of your server and telnet into the server from the server and create accounts for fun and then they pop into your kitchen and help themselves to a few snacks from the fridge before heading back up to the attic, careful not to knock over their growing stash of piss jars while they settle back in, because you gotta have piss jars, that's just part of attic life, you might be stuck up there for a while and when you gotta go you gotta go, but then you always forget to bring the jars back down for disposal and so the stack just keeps growing and growing. I mean it's probably not that but maybe.

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