Subj : Re: Web hosting
To   : Spectre
From : McDoob
Date : Fri Mar 18 2022 12:49:55

 Sp>  Mc> Excuse me, sir, but where do you think this message originated? (o_O)
 Sp> 
 Sp> Yeah but broken DNS for the name isn't going to stop outbound traffic.

Fair enough. But...if inbound traffic was broken, I wouldn't be able to read
*your* messages. The hub is having no trouble at all connecting to PiBBS, and
has the domain name, not a direct IP address.

 Sp>  Mc> I had confirmed that (at least I) people can access PiBBS from port 2
 Sp>  Mc> pibbs.sytes.net before replying to you previously! The web service on
 Sp>
 Sp> That be interesting... because I did get actual dns errors on lookup..
 Sp> first in the browser, also with ping, and ultimately nslookup.  I'm
 Sp> cacheing DNS here, but even if I switch direct to 8.8.8.8 I get "can't
 Sp> find pibbs.sytes.net"

Thanks for providing more information! Are you certain that you are testing
an open port? Aside from telnet on 23, http on 80, and BinkP on 24554, all
other ports are closed, and won't respond to any traffic by design. And again,
port 80 is going to be unresponsive because I broke my web server and can't be
bothered to fix it.

Let me see if I get the same results...I really haven't looked too far into
it because, as I've said, the web server really isn't a priority...

Huh, I'm seeing the same thing. DNS time outs. And yet, the BinkP packets are
still coming in...(o_O) Also, using the IP address directly, the ports are
responding...I'm curious if a change to my dynamic IP would break things, but
not so curious as to find out the hard way...

I dunno. And I *still* don't care. I'll be wiping the Pi and starting over
soon enough, and that ought to fix any problems with the device itself. I'll
have to work my way up from there, if I ever decide that having a web page is
important.

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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