Subj : Re: Web hosting
To   : Andre
From : McDoob
Date : Fri Mar 18 2022 13:31:00

 An>  Mc> Fair enough. But...if inbound traffic was broken, I wouldn't be able 
 An>  Mc> read *your* messages. The hub is having no trouble at all connecting 
 An>  Mc> PiBBS, and has the domain name, not a direct IP address.
 An> 
 An> Your BBS calls out to the hub to request its messages. The hub is not
 An> calling you to give you your messages. 

Erm, both, actually. My hubs are set up to automatically send message traffic
as it arrives (BinkP crashing, I think it's called?), and my BBS is set to
make hourly requests, as well as make requests when it sends outbound
traffic. Though, to be clear, these automatic connections are *not* occuring
right now...

 An>  Mc> Thanks for providing more information! Are you certain that you are
 An>  Mc> testing an open port?
 An> 
 An> Has nothing to do with DNS. If no one can get the IP address from the DNS
 An> system when looking up your domain name, no one can contact you because
 An> they don't know what IP address to use. No inbound anything. No web, no
 An> telnet to the BBS, no nothing.

Yes, thank you. I am noticing that for myself, as we discuss this.

 An>  Mc> I dunno. And I *still* don't care. I'll be wiping the Pi and starting
 An>  Mc> soon enough, and that ought to fix any problems with the device itsel
 An> 
 An> The only way this would fix the problem is if dynamic DNS (no-ip
 An> service) is being updated by your Pi. More typically people setup their
 An> routers or their personal worksations to update DDNS, but not always.

Correct, I am currently relying on my router to do this. This is why I said I
would have to 'work my way up from there'. Again, though, the information
that no-ip has *appears* to be correct...

Thank you for helping me learn new things, whether I particularly want to or
not! (^_^)

My next step will be to sign up with another DDNS service and see if that one
is a bit more cooperative...

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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