The online status of every BBS listed in the Telnet BBS Guide. reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DarrylLeeS · 2015-12-28 07:19 I was bored tonight so I spent some time making an automated script that connects to every BBS in the [Telnet BBS Guide Brief List] (http://www.telnetbbsguide.com/brieflist.asp). It took the program about an hour to go through all 374 BBS systems and amazingly, most were online! BBS's who were marked as OFFLINE, were either systems that refused the connection, were actually offline - no connection was made, connected and then went offline immediately and finally systems who were busy and refused the connection after initially connecting.   Some of the artwork on some of the systems was amazing.   BBS Online Status: [CLICK HERE] (http://thenexusbbs.com/bbs_status/bbs_status_20151227.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2015-12-28 17:22 Odd, mine is listed as offline. Should be up. Capitol Shrill. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DarrylLeeS · 2015-12-28 17:30 I'll have to look at it closer, but I think it connected and then disconnected for some reason. Nevertheless, this was a first run and watching it in action was pretty amazing - like I said, there's some serious artwork on some of those systems. In the next version, i'll see about capturing the errors and displaying a message. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- nolageek · 2015-12-28 17:50 What time was it running? I did take it down for about 20 minutes to run a backup last night. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DarrylLeeS · 2015-12-28 18:02 The times listed beside each system are in Mountain Standard Time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- epablo · 2015-12-29 03:11 Great, thanks! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 9600bps · 2015-12-29 03:17 Thanks for doing this! So many systems to check out! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- L1th0 · 2015-12-29 05:33 woot, asirta.com is up :-b. Looks like the overall percentage of being online is pretty good. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- NuSkooler · 2016-01-02 01:23 Nice work! Is this something you plan on keeping updated with automation or the like? I know at least one of the BBS list maintainers has some sort of automated check in - I see it connect to my board every day on what appears to be a fixed interval, do nothing, then disconnect. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2016-01-02 06:39 the operator of the telnetbbsguide has a script that calls out to the bbs entries and checks for a connection.i had to whitelist him because his ip kept getting blocked by my bbs captcha script. perhaps share your script with dave? he might be able to incorporate it if the script is better than what he's using now. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- mro_1337 · 2016-01-02 06:41 that's probably telnetbbsguide ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BstMnFail · 2016-01-03 06:43 Thanks for this! I've been wanting to re-live the T.A.G. BBS software (I used to run a system with that 20 years ago), but it looks like the only system running T.A.G. (diskbox.homeip.net) is down even though your list has it online. I assume that it's a dynamic address connecting to the person's personal computer... so hopefully it comes back. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DarrylLeeS · 2016-01-04 01:38 I'm thinking i could run it every month... don't really want to hammer every board every week or day. Maybe put up a webpage so peeps can check out previous months and so on. Sure :) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DarrylLeeS · 2016-01-04 01:41 Well it was a quick first attempt and worked amazingly well (yes, I sat and stared at it for 20-30 minutes - then I went and made some tea... so I missed a few connections), but from the ones I was watching, it seemed to correctly mark systems that refused connections or were actually offline (no connection), or were "busy" (think I saw a board kick off the bot because it was down for maintenance). Either way, I'll see about spending a little more time on it and seeing if I can add more information from the telnetbbsguide like system type and so on. I am in no way trying to replace the guide. Hell no! I don't have that kind of time and it's already completely automated anyways. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BstMnFail · 2016-01-06 03:44 I tried the BBS again and it worked. I guess my assumption was right and the person's personal computer was off/etc. Not much there, but good to see TAG running again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dmine45 · 2016-02-12 18:06 Thanks for listing my Telnet BBS Guide on here. I maintain that list, and I'm glad you found most of the systems up and running! I really try to keep that list up to date. Could I use that script that you used? I currently check them by hand. (ugh!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2016-02-15 16:42 [deleted]