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Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Announcements and Press Releases => Topic started by: dandelion on January 27, 2004, 01:19:57 PM
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As of 9pm GMT Tues 27th Jan iNSEMiNOiD BBS will be on and waiting to receive callers via telnet.
It can be reached at inseminoid.dyndns.org. This being telnet means no call charges or such like - all the joys of BBSing without the expense and phonebills!
Although it will be online and accepting calls there is still a bit of last minute polishing to be done, so expect improvements to the board over the next few weeks. Still, it's in a fine state so pop in. Open 24 hours!
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ERROR: Connection timeout.
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9 PM Doh ;-)
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BBS! Ahh, the memories! :-)
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I would love to do this myself.
I'll be checking it out!!!
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I can't connect!
I tried this:
telnet inseminoid.dyndns.org
and it said connecting and then it just closed the window. Is it an Amiga only BBS or something? (I surf with WIN2000 laptop)
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It's now after 9:00 PM GMT, but connections are failing. Either the server is slammed and refusing connections, or it's not quite ready. . . .
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Failing here too...
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It's working just fine here.
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Nope still fails here,
I'm running telnet from a DOS window....
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Yup fails for me too, and I telnet to quite a few other BBS sites.
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Sorry to all those who tried to log on but couldn't last night. Was having some problems so some of you were lucky and others weren't. Firstly the telnetd client kept quitting out after a user had logged off (which I wasn't aware of for the first few hours). I tried to piece together a script last night to get it to re-run after a log off but as of this morning it wasn't working properly. However, it should be sorted by 9pm this evening so don't give up on me! :)
Secondly, still operating with an unregistered tesler (the telnetd client) which limits you to one session at a time (i.e. some of you might have tried when it was busy). The keyfile for telser is freely available but needs uudecoding which i've been having probs with (probably because i was using ed to extract the encoded section).
The first problem should be solved today, maybe even both! (I'm going to put a plea for help on amiga.org now!)
Apologies to the few of you that had difficulties!
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@dandelion :
how about doing a short how-to about setting up the telnet interface to bbs sfw ? would be a nice thing :-)
perhaps kees could put this into a docu site within AO
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Do you mean how to interface a standard BBS package to telnet to get BBS's accessbile via the internet? I would be happy to do this as it would have been very useful to me. It was quite a struggle setting things up with very little documentation but I got there in the end (obivously!)
If you mean how people can use telnet to access a bbs like inseminoid, then sure - although the docs that come with every telnet package would surely explain this?
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Welcome to the BBS Community!!
Is it me or are Amiga BBSes making a big comeback?
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I just closed my BBS down, after 9 years online :(
It was actually picking up users again, with quick 24h net access, but I can't devote the time to it anymore.. Oh well.
:-(
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ooh, purty. havent managed to login yet though... on the other hand ... why did no one tell me about dyndns.org before? turns out my broadband router has built in support for it too! f'ing cool.... time to play webservers :-)
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that was far too easy, the hardest part was a bit of configging of my linux box (suse 8.0 = you have to set the ip/host/domain in 4, yes 4 different places/config files, ####ing stupid), so now i've hosted a web site via
1. dyndns.org
2. the router in my friends house 6 doors up the street
3. port forwarding of 80 to
4. the wireless lan point in his house
5. the wireless lan point in my house
6. the switch under the floorboards at the top of the stairs
7. my 450mhz linux box
nice
but i'm not telling you the domain, cos i'm scared of breaking it :-)
now i wish i'd bloody get around to purchasing a net card for my amiga so i can host on it, woohoo!
still havent managed to log into that bbs yet though, i'll keep on trying, it just says it cant connect, infact .... pings time out, though i'm not porting it.... hmz. i'll keep trying!
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I still havent been able to connect to the BBS. Having problems still I assume?
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the board has been off for the past 36 hours due to an ISP problem. Namely, although it's an "anytime" dialup account they actually limit you to 150 hours per month and even when you're within those limits trying to auto-reconnect always ends in failure (I suppose to stop you trying to do just what i'm doing). I'm going to have to look around for another ISP. If anyone can recommend a decent always-on dialup within the UK that would be great! It looks like i'm going to have to go broadband though. That would be useful for the board anyway, but causes other problems like trying to find an ethernet card for the 1200.
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we use freeserver broadband which seems to work surprisingly well considering... though you get auto kicked after two hours you can redial and there's noting in the T&C about how much time/bandwidth per month your allowed to use :-)
keep on trying though, i'm intrigued!
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Do you mean how to interface a standard BBS package to telnet to get BBS's accessbile via the internet? I would be happy to do this as it would have been very useful to me. It was quite a struggle setting things up with very little documentation but I got there in the end (obivously!)
of course i mean that. everyone should know how to use telnet ... :smack: