Subj : Re: syncterm bbs port discovery
To   : fusion
From : Tracker1
Date : Thu Jul 07 2022 15:34:06

On 7/6/22 22:55, fusion wrote:
 >
 > Keep having this idea pop in my head.. maybe a solution in search of
 > a problem.. DNS servers often have text strings with all sorts of
 > stuff.. spf for ips allowed to send mail on behalf of a domain, domain
 > ownership verfification.. yadda yadda
 >
 > Could perhaps throw one in there like BBS=2323 or something so
 > syncterm can find nonstandard ports on it's own.


You could create an SRV record...

    _telnet._tcp.foo.com 86400 IN SRV 10 5 2323 host.foo.com

https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/dns-srv-record/

However, it's on the client to actually support this...  Might be 
interesting if web browsers supported this as well, to work around port 
blocking restrictions without having to specify a given port.

Also, an interesting thing to possibly add to a dyndns service/host for 
BBS usage.

DM?
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Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
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