Subj : Sorry, No more free nodes.
To   : All
From : Jeff Smith
Date : Fri Oct 18 2019 01:22 pm


   Hello everybody!

I seem to have an ongoing problem. A problem that looks to occur on a daily 
basis
of late. BBBS presents me with:

"400 Sorry, No more free nodes, Try again later."

I have been using Iptables to try to manage the "Bot" connection attempts and 
it
has helped. But lately by the end of the day BBBS here is unreachable. I have
started to restart the BBBS PC on a daily basis which has made BBBS available
again. But sadly only for the day as by days end BBBS is out of free nodes 
again.

This has been a problem for BBBS for awhile now. I have tried several things to
try to eliminate or at least reduce the problem. But sadly the issue remains.
I currently have 22 nodes available to BBBS. and the problem looks to exist
regardless of service/port used. As http, Telnet, and BinkP are all effected.

So.. A couple questions. Is there a way to instruct BBBS to flush/close all 
open
connections without restarting the PC? (I know, not a solution)

Is there a more effective way to manage and eliminate spam/bot connections?


Jeff


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