Subj : Re: Help with amibinkd?
To   : Tim Grooms
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Jun 07 2018 10:43:38

Hi Tim,

On 2018-06-06 23:58:40, you wrote to All:

 TG> I have recently put my Excelsior! BBS back online and am trying to get
 TG> Fidonet going with it again thru the internet.  The bbs is working
 TG> fine with telnetd.device and accepting calls on port 6400.  I am
 TG> trying to get amibinkd set up to receive mail.  I can poll my boss
 TG> with it to send and pick up netmail and echomail but the boss has not
 TG> been able to make contact with my BBS.  I know amibinkd works through
 TG> port 24554 and I have this port open on my router as i do port 6400
 TG> for calls to the BBS.

 TG> Is this all I need to do besides running amibinkd as a server?
 TG> I'm not sure if there is some other place I need to open the port in
 TG> the software?

 TG> Does anyone have experience using the Amiga version?  Any help would be
 TG> gratly greatly appreciated!

 TG> Tim
 TG> CIA Amiga BBS
 TG> ciaamigabbs.dynu.net:6400

There is nothing there to connect to:

# nmap -p binkp,6400 ciaamigabbs.dynu.net

Starting Nmap 6.47 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2018-06-07 10:41 CEST
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try 
-Pn
Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 3.32 seconds

# nmap ciaamigabbs.dynu.net

Starting Nmap 6.47 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2018-06-07 10:42 CEST
Note: Host seems down. If it is really up, but blocking our ping probes, try 
-Pn
Nmap done: 1 IP address (0 hosts up) scanned in 3.08 seconds

# nmap -p binkp,6400 -Pn ciaamigabbs.dynu.net

Starting Nmap 6.47 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2018-06-07 10:42 CEST
Nmap scan report for ciaamigabbs.dynu.net (24.35.140.8)
Host is up.
rDNS record for 24.35.140.8: 24-35-140-8.fidnet.com
PORT      STATE    SERVICE
6400/tcp  filtered crystalreports
24554/tcp filtered binkp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 3.30 seconds



Bye, Wilfred.

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