Subj : Re: syncterm bbs port discovery
To   : Tracker1
From : Digital Man
Date : Fri Jul 08 2022 11:26:29

  Re: Re: syncterm bbs port discovery
  By: Tracker1 to fusion on Thu Jul 07 2022 03:34 pm

 > On 7/6/22 22:55, fusion wrote:
 >
 >  > Keep having this idea pop in my head.. maybe a solution in search of
 >  > a problem.. DNS servers often have text strings with all sorts of
 >  > stuff.. spf for ips allowed to send mail on behalf of a domain, domain
 >  > ownership verfification.. yadda yadda
 >
 >  > Could perhaps throw one in there like BBS=2323 or something so
 >  > syncterm can find nonstandard ports on it's own.
 >
 >
 > You could create an SRV record...
 >
 >     _telnet._tcp.foo.com 86400 IN SRV 10 5 2323 host.foo.com
 >
 > https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/dns-srv-record/
 >
 > However, it's on the client to actually support this...  Might be
 > interesting if web browsers supported this as well, to work around port
 > blocking restrictions without having to specify a given port.
 >
 > Also, an interesting thing to possibly add to a dyndns service/host for
 > BBS usage.
 >
 > DM?

Yeah, wouldn't be too hard to to the dyndns service. I just don't know of any BBS clients that would make use of it (yet).
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