1. Forum
  2. FidoNet
  3. MYSTIC

  • cannot find address for my bbs

    From Francis Sanders@1:103/705 to All on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 05:22:59
    hello, i want to make a bbs on mystic but i cant find my address for entering with telnet. does anybody know where it is?
    --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux
    * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)
  • From Kostie Muirhead@1:342/17 to Francis Sanders on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 12:05:04
    Re: cannot find address for my bbs
    By: Francis Sanders to All on Tue Aug 11 2020 05:22 am

    hello, i want to make a bbs on mystic but i cant find my address for entering with telnet. does anybody know where it is? --- SBBSecho

    What exactly are you asking? Telnet is handled by IP address - if you don't know how those work I won't say don't setup a BBS, but I will say you should do some learning and engage with existing boards first as you need at least a passing familiarity with networking, port forwarding, firewalling, and nat or you're going to want to pull your hair out.
    ===
    Underminer
    The Undermine BBS - bbs.undermine.ca:423
    Fidonet: 1:342/17
    --- SBBSecho 3.11-Linux
    * Origin: The Undermine - bbs.undermine.ca:423 - Calgary, AB (1:342/17)
  • From Michael Pedersen@3:770/3 to Francis Sanders on Tuesday, August 11, 2020 20:14:10
    On 11 Aug 2020, Francis Sanders said the following...

    From: nospam.Francis.Sanders@f1.n770.z5895.fidonet.org (Francis Sanders)

    hello, i want to make a bbs on mystic but i cant find my address for entering with telnet. does anybody know where it is?
    --- NewsGate v1.0 gamma 2
    * Origin: Arcadia NewsGate | telnet://bbs.arcadiabbs.com (1:142/100)

    There are a few things that you need to be aware of here. Your telnet IP address is going to be the address of the system that you are running this
    on. If you are running this on a home network, you are likely running
    Network Address Translation (NAT for short) which means the system is not accessable from the internet without making some adjustments to your router
    to forward specific ports through to internal IP addresses. Most routers
    call this port forwarding.

    Most ISP's will periodically change your public facing IP address, so you
    will want to get a hostname, I use noip.com which is free for a basic
    account (I pay them but i want some extras).

    assuming you are running under windows you can get the IP address of a
    machine running on your network by typing "cmd" in the search bar and then typing "ipconfig" at the prompt. You will see output similar to what I
    pasted below. the IPv4 address is the IP address.

    IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.55.63
    Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0
    Default Gateway . . . . . . . . . : 10.0.55.1

    You will also want to know your public facing IP address if you want somebody outside your network to connect to your bbs (once you set up the port forwarding). You can find this by typing "what is my ip" in a google search bar. At the top of your search results you will be shown your public IP address.

    Hope this helps.

    - Mike
    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
    + The Arcadia BBS NewsGate - telnet://bbs.arcadiabbs.com
    +
    + User email address: Michael.Pedersen@p0.f73.n142.z1.fidonet.org
    + User FidoNet address: 1:142/73

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: Agency HUB, Dunedin - New Zealand | Fido<>Usenet Gateway (3:770/3)