Subj : Re: Connection Refused
To   : Grease
From : Tracker1
Date : Sat Mar 04 2023 19:30:21

  Re: Re: Connection Refused
  By: Grease to Tracker1 on Wed Mar 01 2023 17:28:00

 Tr>> Aside: If you're on a residential (especially cable) internet
 Tr>> provider connection, many/most providers block common server ports
 Tr>> from inbound connections.  Try a higher/alternate port, such as 2323
 Tr>> and see if that works instead... you can probably just change the
 Tr>> port forward in your router to listen on 2323 and forward to the
 Tr>> host on 23, so you don't need to change the BBS's config.

 Gr> Sorry to hijack. I may have this same problem. Port 23 is not letting
 Gr> traffic in. I know all routers are different, but in a generic way, how do
 Gr> you do this? 

I'd just use 2323 for telnet, if that was my main interest.  In your router, where you configure port forwarding, just change the listening port to 2323, and the destination ip/port to your internal address, and port 23.  You can usually configure both separately.

If you are comfortable with Linux, I'd suggest using a VPS host.  This is what I'm actually running on myself (4gb linux host on DigitalOcean, but there are less expensive options).  If you really want to run locally, you can use a gateway service like ngrok, which will route an accessible IP to your internal system for use.
  
   
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