I need some help with Mystic BBS on Raspberry Pi.
reddit / bbs

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MSFDiamondDog · 2018-01-25 21:30

Hello all, I'm trying to get my Raspberry Pi to host a Mystic based
BBS, but I've run into a snag, that I hope somebody here can help me
with.  I'm currently trying to get my server to connect with my no-ip
DNS and so far, I can not for the life of me figure out how to open up
port 23 for telnet!  I can forward port 22 for SSH no problem, but I
have been pulling my hair out trying to get 23 to forward open.  I've
been going into my router and setting the port forward settings, but
to no avail.  I did find something interesting though...  When I turn
off the SSH server in my pi, that I use to log in and control it, port
22 closes.  Which tells me that there's something that I need to do on
the Pi's end to open port 23, but I'm not sure what.  Thanks.

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UnRandomLife · 2018-01-25 21:35

You can't just open ports less than 1024 without being root.

Best bet, run your BBS on another port, say 2323, then have your
router port forward 23->2323 on the Pi.

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MSFDiamondDog · 2018-01-25 21:39

Thanks.  I'll give it a shot.  I apologize if I sound a little
inexperienced, this is my first project involving networking that I've
had in a long time.

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MSFDiamondDog · 2018-01-25 21:48

It works!  Thanks a bunch!  So I have to have root access to open the
ports that I want.  I would have never guessed.  Thanks a bunch!