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Hello! I've sort of fallen down a rabbit hole trying to set up a BBS on an amazon ec2 instance, I'm wondering if any folks running synchronet on linux can help a newbie.
I was able to install Synchronet 3.16, and I can launch configuration & the BBS itself, but I'd like to be able to have users SSH into the BBS, and I can't seem to find where to enable that within synchronet's configuration. SSH is unblocked on the ec2 instance, but ssh'ing to the ip will just connect you to ec2, not to the BBS.
Sorry if this is a dumb question!
-W
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Re: Enable ssh on sycnronet on ec2 ubuntu instance?
By: wileywiggins to alt.bbs.synchronet on Mon Feb 17 2014 06:32 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

Hello! I've sort of fallen down a rabbit hole trying to set up a BBS on an amazon ec2 instance, I'm wondering if any folks running synchronet on linux can help a newbie. I was able to install Synchronet 3.16, and I can launch configuration & the BBS itself, but I'd like to be able to have users SSH into the BBS, and I can't seem to find where to enable that within synchronet's configuration. SSH is unblocked on the ec2 instance, but ssh'ing to the ip will just connect you to ec2, not to the BBS. Sorry if this is a dumb question!

You enable SSH in the ctrl/sbbs.ini file. If you already have SSH enabled on the IP (on port 22), then you'll probably need to use a different TCP port for the BBS's SSH connections.

See http://wiki.synchro.net/config:sbbs.ini for details.

digital man

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Halfway there, I set the port in sbbs.ini to 6100 and opened port 6100 in ec2, but when I try to connect to [ec2hostnameblahblah]:6100 I get
Could not resolve hostname [blahblah] nodename nor servname provided, or not known
On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 1:17:44 AM UTC-6, Digital Man wrote:

To: wileywiggins

Re: Enable ssh on sycnronet on ec2 ubuntu instance?

By: wileywiggins to alt.bbs.synchronet on Mon Feb 17 2014 06:32 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

Hello! I've sort of fallen down a rabbit hole trying to set up a BBS on an

amazon ec2 instance, I'm wondering if any folks running synchronet on linux

can help a newbie. I was able to install Synchronet 3.16, and I can launch

configuration & the BBS itself, but I'd like to be able to have users SSH

into the BBS, and I can't seem to find where to enable that within

synchronet's configuration. SSH is unblocked on the ec2 instance, but

ssh'ing to the ip will just connect you to ec2, not to the BBS. Sorry if

this is a dumb question!

You enable SSH in the ctrl/sbbs.ini file. If you already have SSH enabled on

the IP (on port 22), then you'll probably need to use a different TCP port for

the BBS's SSH connections.

See http://wiki.synchro.net/config:sbbs.ini for details.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #45:

Synchronet External X/Y/ZMODEM protocol driver (SEXYZ) was introduced in 2005.

Norco, CA WX: 51.8°F, 94.0% humidity, 2 mph SSE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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Re: Re: Enable ssh on sycnronet on ec2 ubuntu instance?
By: wileywiggins to alt.bbs.synchronet on Tue Feb 18 2014 01:40 pm

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Halfway there, I set the port in sbbs.ini to 6100 and opened port 6100 in ec2, but when I try to connect to [ec2hostnameblahblah]:6100 I get Could
not resolve hostname [blahblah] nodename nor servname provided, or not known

Not resolving a hostname is something completely different. What is the hostname exactly?

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #78:
172 Synchronet Match Maker registrations were sold (@$69) between 1995 and 1996.
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Well, if I just put in the hostname without :6100 then it connects to the ec2 (it goes back to assuming port 22)
I can include the hostname, but I didn't want to post it if I don't need to... On Tuesday, February 18, 2014 5:33:26 PM UTC-6, Digital Man wrote:

To: wileywiggins

Re: Re: Enable ssh on sycnronet on ec2 ubuntu instance?

By: wileywiggins to alt.bbs.synchronet on Tue Feb 18 2014 01:40 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

Halfway there, I set the port in sbbs.ini to 6100 and opened port 6100 in

ec2, but when I try to connect to [ec2hostnameblahblah]:6100 I get Could

not resolve hostname [blahblah] nodename nor servname provided, or not

known

Not resolving a hostname is something completely different. What is the

hostname exactly?

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #78:

172 Synchronet Match Maker registrations were sold (@$69) between 1995 and 1996.

Norco, CA WX: 68.8°F, 43.0% humidity, 2 mph ESE wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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Re: Re: Enable ssh on sycnronet on ec2 ubuntu instance?
By: wileywiggins to alt.bbs.synchronet on Tue Feb 18 2014 03:42 pm

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Well, if I just put in the hostname without :6100 then it connects to the ec2 (it goes back to assuming port 22) I can include the hostname, but I didn't want to post it if I don't need to...

Put it where? What SSH client are you trying to use? Apparently, it doesn't recognize <host>:<port> syntax and you need to specify the port number another way.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #56:
Synchronet introduced Telnet, FTP, SMTP and POP3 support w/v3.00a-Win32 in 2000.
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Re: Enable ssh on sycnronet on ec2 ubuntu instance?
By: wileywiggins to alt.bbs.synchronet on Mon Feb 17 2014 06:32 pm

I'm using Synchronet 3.16 on a EC2 instance, but Windows Server 2008. It was rocky in the beginning, but now is rolling along. What issues are you having?

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Re: Re: Enable ssh on sycnronet on ec2 ubuntu instance?
By: wileywiggins to alt.bbs.synchronet on Tue Feb 18 2014 15:42:34

Well, if I just put in the hostname without :6100 then it connects to the ec2 (it goes back to assuming port 22) I can include the hostname, but I didn't want to post it if I don't need to...

If you're working with 'ssh' on *NIX, the ssh client does not parse a hostname:port in that format at all, nor does it handle it as a standard URL. The invocation that you're looking for is: 'ssh -p 6100 hostname.fapfapfap.org' or whatever.

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whoops! that's my problem. I assumed it worked like http. Thanks!
On Monday, February 17, 2014 8:32:36 PM UTC-6, wileyw...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello! I've sort of fallen down a rabbit hole trying to set up a BBS on an amazon ec2 instance, I'm wondering if any folks running synchronet on linux can help a newbie.

I was able to install Synchronet 3.16, and I can launch configuration & the BBS itself, but I'd like to be able to have users SSH into the BBS, and I can't seem to find where to enable that within synchronet's configuration. SSH is unblocked on the ec2 instance, but ssh'ing to the ip will just connect you to ec2, not to the BBS.

Sorry if this is a dumb question!

-W

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From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

fooey, now it gives me a "connection refused" when I try to connect with -p 6100. even though 6100 is opened in the ec2 security group inbound rules, and sbbs.ini has:
; TCP port for Secure Shell (SSH) server:
SSHPort=6100
and connecting to the same hostname without a port specified logs in to the ec2 instance.
I've got Synchronet launched in another session. All nodes show waiting for connection...
Should I nuke my linux ec2 instance and do this with a windows instance instead? Is that easier?
On Wednesday, February 19, 2014 2:06:59 PM UTC-6, wileyw...@gmail.com wrote:

whoops! that's my problem. I assumed it worked like http. Thanks!

On Monday, February 17, 2014 8:32:36 PM UTC-6, wileyw...@gmail.com wrote:

Hello! I've sort of fallen down a rabbit hole trying to set up a BBS on an amazon ec2 instance, I'm wondering if any folks running synchronet on linux can help a newbie.

I was able to install Synchronet 3.16, and I can launch configuration & the BBS itself, but I'd like to be able to have users SSH into the BBS, and I can't seem to find where to enable that within synchronet's configuration. SSH is unblocked on the ec2 instance, but ssh'ing to the ip will just connect you to ec2, not to the BBS.

Sorry if this is a dumb question!

-W

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Re: Re: Enable ssh on sycnronet on ec2 ubuntu instance?
By: wileywiggins to alt.bbs.synchronet on Wed Feb 19 2014 12:23 pm

From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet

fooey, now it gives me a "connection refused" when I try to connect with -p 6100. even though 6100 is opened in the ec2 security group inbound rules, and sbbs.ini has: ; TCP port for Secure Shell (SSH) server:
SSHPort=6100
and connecting to the same hostname without a port specified logs in to the ec2 instance. I've got Synchronet launched in another session. All nodes show waiting for connection...

Did you add ALLOW_SSH to the [BBS] Options in sbbs.ini?

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #37:
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