Subj : binkps
To   : shinobi
From : Oli
Date : Sat Apr 11 2020 11:46 am

shinobi wrote (2020-04-10):

 s> Hello Al,

 Al>> nginx.conf:

 s>  From that setup where You use nginx for the stream proxy of ssl binkps I
 s> would have a small comment. That's the trouble when You connect with more
 s> than one node concurrently. The ip address is not forwarded through the
 s> proxy and You basically connect from localhost. That means when You
 s> connect with more than one node You got the Duplicate I.P. message. I'm
 s> uncertain if this cannot be configured otherwise. But there a solution on
 s> how to connect with more than one node at once.

 s> The Mystic BBS can be configured to listen on multiple ports with the
 s> BINKP server. That means what could be done is to setup several BINKP
 s> server listening on localhost. E.g. 24554, 24555, 24556, 24557, 24558.
 s> Then You can have 5 concurrent connections from the proxy server. The
 s> nginx can load-balance and this is how it could be done:

you could also tell nginx to use different IPs for the connection. I haven't 
tried it and I cannot provide a configuration example, but I think it's doable

proxy_bind 127.0.0.2;
.....
proxy_bind 127.0.0.3;
.....
proxy_bind 127.0.0.4;


You can also try to running it as a transparent proxy.

https://www.nginx.com/blog/ip-transparency-direct-server-return-nginx-plus-transparent-proxy/#ip-transparency

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