Subj : Re: MBBSEMU...
To   : Atreyu
From : Shurato
Date : Sat Dec 20 2025 03:18 pm


* In a message originally to Shurato, Atreyu said:

 > On 19 Dec 25  19:41:00, Shurato said the following to Gamgee:

 > S> How does that not answer your question?  You run mbbsemu with commands
 > and i
 > S> answers connection attempts from rlogin clients.  If I try to connect
 > to tha
 > S> server from outside the machine it is running on, it refuses to
 > connect.  If

 > When you say you try to remotely connect and it refuses, you mean the
 > connection is refused outright, or it times out or what?

I simply get a message from telnetdoor that the connection was refused.

 > Is it your firewall or ISP? Are you connecting from an outside ISP that
 > even allows Rlogin?

I'm connecting from an external machine, internal to the network.

 > Is it even really necessary? Whats wrong with just normal Telnet? My board
 > and many others have sat on port 23 for years. Not too many BBS
 > callers going  out of their way to use Rlogin... Isn't that just a
 > supercoolhacker Linux  thing?

rlogin allows me to access the doors directly, like a game server with no
need for a user to login.  This is accessing from my BBS machine to another
machine on my network.

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Shurato, Sysop Shurato's Heavenly Sphere (ssh, telnet, pop3, ftp,nntp,
,wss) (Ports 22,23,110,21,119,999)


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