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  • InterBBS Active User

    From Alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 13:25:53
    Re-posting in the right area :)

    This is really the wrong message area for Synchronet support questions.

    As for your host, it appears you don't have an IP address (A record or CNAME)
    in your DNS record:

    $ nc -u bbs.leenooks.net 11
    bbs.leenooks.net: forward host lookup failed: Unknown host : Connection timed
    out
    $ host bbs.leenooks.net
    < bbs.leenooks.net mail is handled by 10 l.dlcm.co.

    Yes, since posting this, I removed the bbs.leenooks.net CNAME as it was messing with my SMTP (the way I shove SMTP around internally).

    So I have added an alterant.leenooks.net

    [leenooks@ig-1-3 ~]$ nc -u alterant.leenooks.net 11

    User Action Time-on Node ------------------------- ------------------------------- -------- ---- Alterego posting message 4:11:52 1

    But still your check your services js says port 11/udp is not open?


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Alterego on Tuesday, July 23, 2019 23:36:09
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Alterego to Digital Man on Wed Jul 24 2019 01:25 pm

    Re-posting in the right area :)

    This is really the wrong message area for Synchronet support questions.

    As for your host, it appears you don't have an IP address (A record or CNA
    in your DNS record:

    $ nc -u bbs.leenooks.net 11
    bbs.leenooks.net: forward host lookup failed: Unknown host : Connection ti
    out
    $ host bbs.leenooks.net
    < bbs.leenooks.net mail is handled by 10 l.dlcm.co.

    Yes, since posting this, I removed the bbs.leenooks.net CNAME as it was mess with my SMTP (the way I shove SMTP around internally).

    So I have added an alterant.leenooks.net

    [leenooks@ig-1-3 ~]$ nc -u alterant.leenooks.net 11

    User Action Time-on N ------------------------- ------------------------------- -------- - Alterego posting message 4:11:52

    But still your check your services js says port 11/udp is not open?

    It seems to be working now:

    $ echo -e "\n" | nc -u alterant.leenooks.net 11

    User Action Time-on Node ------------------------- ------------------------------- -------- ---- Alterego at main menu 0:39:51 1



    digital man

    Synchronet "Real Fact" #98:
    The Synchronet Wiki (wiki.synchro.net) went online in April of 2010.
    Norco, CA WX: 78.4øF, 48.0% humidity, 0 mph SSW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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  • From Alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 17:12:48
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Tue Jul 23 2019 11:36 pm

    It seems to be working now:
    $ echo -e "\n" | nc -u alterant.leenooks.net 11

    Yeah, it has always worked.

    My question was - when I log into another Synchronet BBS, why I dont show up, when other users show up?

    IE: I logged into VERT, while I was logged into my BBS, used CTRL-P "I", there were 4 other users listed, but not my BBS.


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Alterego on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 00:26:45
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Alterego to Digital Man on Wed Jul 24 2019 05:12 pm

    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Tue Jul 23 2019 11:36 pm

    It seems to be working now:
    $ echo -e "\n" | nc -u alterant.leenooks.net 11

    Yeah, it has always worked.

    My question was - when I log into another Synchronet BBS, why I dont show up, when other users show up?

    Because your system is not yet in the list (at this moment anyway) at: ftp://vert.synchro.net/sbbsimsg.lst

    For details, see http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg

    digital man

    Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #63:
    SMB = Synchronet Message Base (e.g. smblib)
    Norco, CA WX: 78.9øF, 49.0% humidity, 2 mph S wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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  • From Alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 22:55:05
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Wed Jul 24 2019 12:26 am

    Because your system is not yet in the list (at this moment anyway) at: ftp://vert.synchro.net/sbbsimsg.lst

    For details, see http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg

    Yeah, I've followed this - and I thought I was in the list because I show up here:

    http://synchro.net/sbbslist.html

    (Although I do see that it hasnt changed bbs.leenooks.net to alterant.leenooks.net yet.)

    I dont know what I've missed?

    ...ëîå*

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Alterego on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 14:25:41
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Alterego to Digital Man on Wed Jul 24 2019 10:55 pm

    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Wed Jul 24 2019 12:26 am

    Because your system is not yet in the list (at this moment anyway) at: ftp://vert.synchro.net/sbbsimsg.lst

    For details, see http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbsimsg

    Yeah, I've followed this - and I thought I was in the list because I show up here:

    http://synchro.net/sbbslist.html

    (Although I do see that it hasnt changed bbs.leenooks.net to alterant.leenooks.net yet.)

    I dont know what I've missed?

    Check the entry in the Synchronet BBS List on *your* BBS. This your BBS entry as imported (from SYNCDATA) into Vertrauen's list:

    telnet bbs.leenooks.net
    Networks DOVE-Net[ALTERANT]
    Created by Alterego@ALTERANT on Jul 18 2019 via msg-network

    ... and bbs.leenooks.net fails verification.

    digital man

    Synchronet "Real Fact" #56:
    Synchronet Terminal Server introduced SecureShell (SSH) support w/v3.14a (2006).
    Norco, CA WX: 98.3øF, 30.0% humidity, 13 mph E wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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    þ Synchronet þ Vertrauen þ Home of Synchronet þ [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net
  • From Alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Thursday, July 25, 2019 14:18:48
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Wed Jul 24 2019 02:25 pm

    Check the entry in the Synchronet BBS List on *your* BBS. This your BBS entry as imported (from SYNCDATA) into Vertrauen's list:

    Yeah, I did that too - a couple of days ago.

    Mine looks like this:

    Name ALTERANT since 2019-07-18 Synchronet
    Operator Alter Ego <Alter.Ego@bbs.leenooks.net>
    Location Parkdale, VIC 4 nodes
    Web-site alterant.leenooks.net 2 users Description A place to escape... 19 doors
    26 subs
    13 dirs
    10389 msgs
    0 files
    telnet alterant.leenooks.net
    Networks DOVE-Net[ALTERANT]

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Alterego on Wednesday, July 24, 2019 23:34:00
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Alterego to Digital Man on Thu Jul 25 2019 02:18 pm

    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Wed Jul 24 2019 02:25 pm

    Check the entry in the Synchronet BBS List on *your* BBS. This your BBS entry as imported (from SYNCDATA) into Vertrauen's list:

    Yeah, I did that too - a couple of days ago.

    Mine looks like this:

    Name ALTERANT since 2019-07-18
    Synchronet
    Operator Alter Ego <Alter.Ego@bbs.leenooks.net>
    Location Parkdale, VIC 4 nodes
    Web-site alterant.leenooks.net 2 users Description A place to escape...

    telnet alterant.leenooks.net

    That entry hasn't been exported from your BBS into the SYNCDATA conference/echo. The latest I see here in the SYNCATA echo:

    ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄúúúú Ü Ü
    ³ Subj: ALTERANT ßÛÛß
    ³ To : SBL ÞÛÛÛÛÝ
    ³ From: Alterego (ALTERANT) ÜÛÛÛÛÜ
    ³ Date: Fri Jul 19 2019 12:25 am AEST (6.7 days ago) ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄúúúúúú ÛÞÛÛÛÛÝÛ

    Name: ALTERANT
    Birth: 07/18/19
    Software: Synchronet
    Sysop: Alter Ego
    e-mail: Alter.Ego@bbs.leenooks.net
    Web-site: bbs.leenooks.net
    Location: Parkdale, VIC
    Telnet: bbs.leenooks.net

    digital man

    This Is Spinal Tap quote #30:
    Big bottom, big bottom / Talk about mud flaps, my girl's got 'em!
    Norco, CA WX: 77.0øF, 52.0% humidity, 0 mph SW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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    þ Synchronet þ Vertrauen þ Home of Synchronet þ [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net
  • From Alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Thursday, July 25, 2019 19:20:59
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Wed Jul 24 2019 11:34 pm

    That entry hasn't been exported from your BBS into the SYNCDATA conference/echo. The latest I see here in the SYNCATA echo:

    So how do you export it (I thought it was automatic?)

    I update those changes days ago - and didnt do anything different (that I can remember) from creating it.

    ...ëîå*

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Alterego on Thursday, July 25, 2019 04:06:13
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Alterego to Digital Man on Thu Jul 25 2019 07:20 pm

    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Wed Jul 24 2019 11:34 pm

    That entry hasn't been exported from your BBS into the SYNCDATA conference/echo. The latest I see here in the SYNCATA echo:

    So how do you export it (I thought it was automatic?)

    I update those changes days ago - and didnt do anything different (that I can remember) from creating it.

    There's a timed event SBL2SMB, which is normally set to run up to 4 times a day. But the default maximum export frequency (for the same BBS entry) is once every 7 days.

    For details, http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbslist

    So make sure the SBL2SMB event is running.

    You can check your data/sbbslist.json file (e.g. with a text viewer/editor) and find the last export date for your BBS entry. If the last export was less than 7 days ago but *before* you changed/fixed your hostname, that'd explain why it wasn't been seen across the network yet.

    digital man

    Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #64:
    SMTP = Simple Message Transfer Protocol
    Norco, CA WX: 75.3øF, 56.0% humidity, 0 mph SW wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Alterego on Thursday, July 25, 2019 13:44:13
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Thu Jul 25 2019 04:06 am

    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Alterego to Digital Man on Thu Jul 25 2019 07:20 pm

    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Wed Jul 24 2019 11:34 pm

    That entry hasn't been exported from your BBS into the SYNCDATA conference/echo. The latest I see here in the SYNCATA echo:

    So how do you export it (I thought it was automatic?)

    I update those changes days ago - and didnt do anything different (that I can remember) from creating it.

    There's a timed event SBL2SMB, which is normally set to run up to 4 times a day. But the default maximum export frequency (for the same BBS entry) is once every 7 days.

    For details, http://wiki.synchro.net/module:sbbslist

    So make sure the SBL2SMB event is running.

    You can check your data/sbbslist.json file (e.g. with a text viewer/editor) and find the last export date for your BBS entry. If the last export was less than 7 days ago but *before* you changed/fixed your hostname, that'd explain why it wasn't been seen across the network yet.

    A new SBL entry came-through SYNCDATA today for your BBS:

    ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄúúúú Ü Ü
    ³ Subj: ALTERANT ßÛÛß
    ³ To : SBL ÞÛÛÛÛÝ
    ³ From: Alterego (ALTERANT) ÜÛÛÛÛÜ
    ³ Date: Fri Jul 26 2019 04:48 am AEST (1.9 hours ago) ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛ ÀÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄúúúúúú ÛÞÛÛÛÛÝÛ

    Name: ALTERANT
    Birth: 07/18/19
    Software: Synchronet
    Sysop: Alter Ego
    e-mail: Alter.Ego@bbs.leenooks.net
    Web-site: alterant.leenooks.net
    Location: Parkdale, VIC
    Telnet: alterant.leenooks.net

    ... so you should be good to go soon.

    digital man

    Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #59:
    SBBS = Synchronet Bulletin Board System
    Norco, CA WX: 93.1øF, 30.0% humidity, 2 mph E wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs

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  • From Alterego@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Friday, July 26, 2019 09:05:20
    Re: InterBBS Active User
    By: Digital Man to Alterego on Thu Jul 25 2019 01:44 pm

    A new SBL entry came-through SYNCDATA today for your BBS:
    ... so you should be good to go soon.

    Awesome, thanks.

    I'll test it in 24hrs or so.

    ...ëîå*

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