Subj : Re: I'm back!
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : ACMEBBS
Date : Fri May 06 2022 00:58:00

-=> poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Ogg <=-

 -=> Ogg wrote to ACMEBBS <=-


 Og> There are ways around it. Open your ISP-provided router as DMZ.
 Og> Then feed that to a router of your choice were you can control
 Og> the ports.

 pF> If memory serves, he was behing Carrier-Grade NAT - where they give
 pF> the end nodes private IPs. They control the NAT between the public IPs
 pF> and the clients.

Believe you're right. Have heard others with the service that with the way the
system is set up...what we would normally do with other ISP's won't happen.

 pF> There's a way to configure a tunnel on Cloudflare to make your system
 pF> appear as an endpoint on their network, but I haven't tried that yet.

Looked into 3rd party options of renting server space from this
company/others...
but some companies have the same reputations of bill collectors. In terms of
my VPN (Nord)...they don't allow port forwarding...while others do. Looking 
through some of the comments...others are not happy they refuse to allow
his...
while other companies will.

Right now...am happy with the QWK route. Very easy to deal with without many of
the headaches of running a full BBS. Am actually tickled pink this can happen
n
the network.

.... Computer Hacker wanted. Must have own axe.
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