Subj : Question about compiling
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Thu Jul 02 2026 09:31 pm

 WvV> Hi Joacim,

 WvV> On 2026-07-02 19:59:53, you wrote to All:

 JM>> I had to compile Binkd on Rocky Linux 10 and everything seems to work
 JM>> fine. Outgoing packets are sent properly but Binkd does not respond to
 JM>> incoming traffic from the Internet.  I have verified that the firewall
 JM>> rules in OPNsense (which powers my Firewall) is not the issue and
 JM>> Binkd responds fine if I telnet to port 24554 on my internal network.

 WvV> Did you try both 127.0.0.1 (localhost), and the local ip number on
 WvV> your network (like: 192.168.0.x), and their IPv6 counterparts?

 WvV> If both work, it must be a firewall or router problem...


 WvV> Bye, Wilfred.

Yes both localhost and the local IP address works.  There are no local firewall 
active on the server and other services (nntp, etc) works fine from the 
Internet. The port (24559, forwarded to 24554 in the OPNSense firewall) works 
fine with my other Binkd installation for this node number when I tried to 
direct the traffic to that server as a test.  Binkd on the new server will 
simply not work with any traffic from the Internet. 

I enabled this in the binkd configuration: 

iport binkp
oport binkp
oblksize 4096
timeout 5m
connect-timeout 5m
bindaddr 10.0.2.237
listen *


It did not help. 

I agree this looks like a firewall configuration issue but I have tested 
everything and the only conclusion I can find is that Binkd is the issue. 


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