Subj : Re: Autoban settings
To   : Black Panther
From : McDoob
Date : Tue Dec 14 2021 07:13 pm

 BP> It does work. I'm running the same settings here, 4 attempts in 120
 BP> seconds. Right now, my blacklist.txt file is at 81529 lines, so Mystic
 BP> has blocked a few. ;)

Damn. And I was getting surprised by 250 lines (in a couple of days, to be
fair)...Looks like I have some big shoes to fill...

 BP> Another thing you can do, is run a 'Press Esc Twice to Continue' script.
 BP> This will reduce the amount of time Mystic will sit on the login screen
 BP> before disconnecting them. I have one running here at CRBBS that I
 BP> wrote, and hasn't been released. But, there is at least one other one
 BP> out there from Phenom that will work as well.

I saw a very retro-cool looking 'Press Esc Twice' screen on 20forbeers BBS. I
was immediately impressed by that and the 'captcha'-esque secondary. These
are goals for my BBS, for sure!

But...at this point...I need to spend a lot of time learning Mystic first.
Like...how to run a script before login...XD

Don't tell me! I prefer to find out the hard way!

BP> [...]Also, how many nodes are your
BP> running in Mystic? I have mine set to 10 nodes. When I started running
BP> Mystic, there were times I couldn't log in, as all 10 nodes were being
BP> occupied by bots... Now, it's pretty rare that I'm not able to log in on
BP> either node 1 or 2, still out of 10.
BP>

I've set a hard limit of 8 on all of my servers. Then 5 on telnet, 2 on
BinkP, and 3 on HTTP. I have duplicate logins turned off. So far, (*a whole
two weeks*) I haven't ever had a problem logging in. I've also been online
while other users were also logged in.

I sometimes spend hours skimming (or reading) the logs. The most telnet
connections I've seen is 3 (me, that user, and probably a bot) at the time of
writing. If I start seeing congestion, I'll consider opening up a few more
nodes.

I don't expect that to be a problem in the near future, since PiBBS simply
won't see the same amount of traffic as the more established BBSes. At
least...not yet... ;)

Thanks for your advice...again!

McDoob
SysOp, PiBBS
pibbs.sytes.net

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