iNSEMiNOiD Amiga BBS goes live!

[MobbyG]

Welcome to the BBS Community!!

Is it me or are Amiga BBSes making a big comeback?

[nOw2]

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.
 :-(

[cycloid]

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 :-)

[cycloid]

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!

[Acill]

I still havent been able to connect to the BBS. Having problems still I assume?

[dandelion]

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.

[cycloid]

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!

[shIva]

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: