Hello Michiel,

I have setup the HE.NET tunnel that I acquired. It is installed for use by 1:14/6, bbs.twisted-balloon.org, 2001:470:1f10:acd::2, 65.103.12.164. I can connect and send mail via IPv6. And port 24554 looks be open via Ipv6. Let me know what you see from your end.

Jeff

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Hi Jeff!

17 Jun 2019 10:35, from Jeff Smith -> Michiel Van Der Vlist:

I have setup the HE.NET tunnel that I acquired. It is installed for
use by 1:14/6, bbs.twisted-balloon.org, 2001:470:1f10:acd::2, 65.103.12.164. I can connect and send mail via IPv6. And port 24554
looks be open via Ipv6. Let me know what you see from your end.

IPv6 seems OK, but your binkp port is closed:
fido@vserv:~$ nmap -6 bbs.twisted-balloon.org -p 24554

Starting Nmap 7.40 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-06-18 19:22 CEST
Nmap scan report for bbs.twisted-balloon.org (2001:470:1f10:acd::2)
Host is up (0.12s latency).
Other addresses for bbs.twisted-balloon.org (not scanned): 65.103.12.164
rDNS record for 2001:470:1f10:acd::2: tunnel539534-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net
PORT STATE SERVICE
24554/tcp closed binkp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.63 seconds

Firewall issue?

CU, Ricsi

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Hi Richard,

On 2019-06-18 19:23:36, you wrote to Jeff Smith:

I have setup the HE.NET tunnel that I acquired. It is installed for
use by 1:14/6, bbs.twisted-balloon.org, 2001:470:1f10:acd::2,
65.103.12.164. I can connect and send mail via IPv6. And port 24554
looks be open via Ipv6. Let me know what you see from your end.

IPv6 seems OK, but your binkp port is closed:
fido@vserv:~$ nmap -6 bbs.twisted-balloon.org -p 24554

Starting Nmap 7.40 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-06-18 19:22 CEST
Nmap scan report for bbs.twisted-balloon.org (2001:470:1f10:acd::2)
Host is up (0.12s latency).
Other addresses for bbs.twisted-balloon.org (not scanned): 65.103.12.164 rDNS record for 2001:470:1f10:acd::2: tunnel539534-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net PORT STATE
SERVICE 24554/tcp closed binkp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.63 seconds

Firewall issue?

Same here:

# nmap -6 bbs.twisted-balloon.org -p 24554

Starting Nmap 6.47 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2019-06-18 19:50 CEST
Nmap scan report for bbs.twisted-balloon.org (2001:470:1f10:acd::2)
Host is up (0.12s latency).
rDNS record for 2001:470:1f10:acd::2: tunnel539534-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net
PORT STATE SERVICE
24554/tcp closed binkp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.81 seconds


Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Jeff,

On Monday June 17 2019 10:35, you wrote to me:

I have setup the HE.NET tunnel that I acquired. It is installed for
use by 1:14/6, bbs.twisted-balloon.org, 2001:470:1f10:acd::2, 65.103.12.164. I can connect and send mail via IPv6. And port 24554
looks be open via Ipv6. Let me know what you see from your end.

+ 20:52 [2520] call to 1:14/6@fidonet
20:52 [2520] trying bbs.twisted-balloon.org [2001:470:1f10:acd::2]...
? 20:52 [2520] connection to 1:14/6@fidonet failed: {W32 API error
10061} Connection refused
20:52 [2520] trying bbs.twisted-balloon.org [65.103.12.164]:24554...
+ 20:52 [2520] bind -- getaddrinfo: Der angegebene Host ist unbekannt. (11001)
20:52 [2520] connected
+ 20:52 [2520] outgoing session with bbs.twisted-balloon.org:24554 [65.103.12.164]
- 20:52 [2520] OPT CRAM-MD5-fbaf73ccf989bdff23da7665890ff5ee CRYPT
+ 20:52 [2520] Remote requests MD mode
+ 20:52 [2520] Remote requests CRYPT mode
- 20:52 [2520] SYS The Twisted Balloon


Cheers, Michiel

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Hi Richard,
On 2019-06-18 19:23:36, you wrote to Jeff Smith:

I have setup the HE.NET tunnel that I acquired. It is installed for
use by 1:14/6, bbs.twisted-balloon.org, 2001:470:1f10:acd::2,
65.103.12.164. I can connect and send mail via IPv6. And port 24554
looks be open via Ipv6. Let me know what you see from your end.

IPv6 seems OK, but your binkp port is closed:
fido@vserv:~$ nmap -6 bbs.twisted-balloon.org -p 24554
Starting Nmap 7.40 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-06-18 19:22 CEST
Nmap scan report for bbs.twisted-balloon.org (2001:470:1f10:acd::2)
Host is up (0.12s latency).
Other addresses for bbs.twisted-balloon.org (not scanned): 65.103.12.164
rDNS record for 2001:470:1f10:acd::2:
tunnel539534-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net PORT STATE
SERVICE 24554/tcp closed binkp
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.63 seconds
Firewall issue?

Same here:
# nmap -6 bbs.twisted-balloon.org -p 24554
Starting Nmap 6.47 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2019-06-18 19:50 CEST
Nmap scan report for bbs.twisted-balloon.org (2001:470:1f10:acd::2)
Host is up (0.12s latency).
rDNS record for 2001:470:1f10:acd::2: tunnel539534-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.
e.net
PORT STATE SERVICE
24554/tcp closed binkp
Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.81 seconds
Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello There,

IPv6 seems OK, but your binkp port is closed:

That's odd as 1:14/6 can send and receive Fido traffic from other systems using IPv6. For testing I have forced Ipv6 BinkP connections to 1:14/6 from other Fido systems here and they connect fine.

In doing remote port checks using my tunnel v6 IP I do get conflicting reports as some say that 24554 is open:

Checked port 24554 on Host/IP bbs.twisted-balloon.org...
The checked port (24554, service binkp) is online/reachable!

while others say it's closed.

Currently the Linux firewall is inactive for tunnel testing purposes.

Upon further testing I found that if I disabled Synchronet's BinkIt daemon and loaded Binkd 1.1a-96 (Dec 24 2017 00:45:58/Linux) with compilation flags: gcc, debug, zlib, perl, https, ntlm, bwlim. Facilities: fts5004 ipv6

Then the remote IPv6 remote port checks that showed a closed 24554 port previously, now show the port as being open using IPv6. Before BinkIt, BinkD could be setup to work with Synchronet.

Jeff



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Hello Jeff,

On Tuesday June 18 2019 13:45, you wrote to Wilfred/Richard:

IPv6 seems OK, but your binkp port is closed:

And now something else happens that is very odd:

+ 21:59 [2436] call to 1:14/6@fidonet
21:59 [2436] trying bbs.twisted-balloon.org [2001:470:1f10:acd::2]...
21:59 [2436] connected
+ 21:59 [2436] outgoing session with bbs.twisted-balloon.org:24554 [2001:470:1f10:acd::2]
- 21:59 [2436] OPT CRAM-MD5-5bec6d7960ae29d0661e5c98ec7a5cee
+ 21:59 [2436] Remote requests MD mode
- 21:59 [2436] SYS Ivan's BBS
- 21:59 [2436] ZYZ Ivan Ivanov
- 21:59 [2436] LOC Magadan, Russia
- 21:59 [2436] NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
- 21:59 [2436] TIME Tue, 18 Jun 2019 14:59:32 -0500
- 21:59 [2436] VER binkd/1.1a-96/Linux binkp/1.1
+ 21:59 [2436] addr: 2:5047/999@fidonet
+ 21:59 [2436] addr: 2:5020/999.1@fidonet
? 21:59 [2436] called 1:14/6@fidonet, but remote has no such AKA
+ 21:59 [2436] done (to 1:14/6@fidonet, failed, S/R: 0/0 (0/0 bytes))
21:59 [2436] session closed, quitting...
21:59 [2816] the queue is empty, quitting...


Cheers, Michiel

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On 2019 Jun 18 22:01:16, you wrote to Jeff Smith:

IPv6 seems OK, but your binkp port is closed:

And now something else happens that is very odd:

- 21:59 [2436] SYS Ivan's BBS
- 21:59 [2436] ZYZ Ivan Ivanov
- 21:59 [2436] LOC Magadan, Russia
- 21:59 [2436] NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP

that's from the default sample config file(s)...

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On 06-17-19 10:35, Jeff Smith wrote to Michiel Van Der Vlist <=-

Hello Michiel,

I have setup the HE.NET tunnel that I acquired. It is installed for use
by 1:14/6, bbs.twisted-balloon.org, 2001:470:1f10:acd::2,
65.103.12.164. I can connect and send mail via IPv6. And port 24554
looks be open via Ipv6. Let me know what you see from your end.

Looks good here. :)

$ telnet bbs.twisted-balloon.org 24554
Trying 2001:470:1f10:acd::2...
Connected to bbs.twisted-balloon.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
.OPT CRAM-MD5-38ab9fa690d8c292fe3e3cc50462ffeeSYS The Twisted BalloonZYZ Jeff SmithLOC Anoka, MN, USANDL 115200,TCP,BINKP%TIME Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:15:55 -0500"VER binkd/1.1a-96/Linux binkp/1.1 1:14/6@fidonet 21:128/2@fsxnet


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On 06-18-19 19:23, Richard Menedetter wrote to Jeff Smith <=-

IPv6 seems OK, but your binkp port is closed:
fido@vserv:~$ nmap -6 bbs.twisted-balloon.org -p 24554

Hmm, I was able to connect to his binkp port.

$ telnet bbs.twisted-balloon.org 24554
Trying 2001:470:1f10:acd::2...
Connected to bbs.twisted-balloon.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
.OPT CRAM-MD5-38ab9fa690d8c292fe3e3cc50462ffeeSYS The Twisted BalloonZYZ Jeff SmithLOC Anoka, MN, USANDL 115200,TCP,BINKP%TIME Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:15:55 -0500"VER binkd/1.1a-96/Linux binkp/1.1 1:14/6@fidonet 21:128/2@fsxnet




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Hello Michiel,

On Tuesday June 18 2019 13:45, you wrote to Wilfred/Richard:

IPv6 seems OK, but your binkp port is closed:

And now something else happens that is very odd:

Not from my perspective. :-)

The system that I installed the tunnel on here is running Synchronet. I was initially using the BinkIt mailer for SBBS. But after the connection issues and as a test I disabled BinkIt and installed BinkD 1.1a-96. It looks to have started up upon installation while I was editing BinkD's config file. For testing I have disabled it's automatic loading. I will be tweaking the BinkD config to work more easily with SBBS. SBBS is tossing the incoming mail received by BinkD.

The remote port checks that were reporting 24554 closed using IPv6 now show that port open for 1:14/6. I have queried the Synchronet author on BinkIt. Up to this point Synchronet had been idle so it seemed a likely test subject.

Jeff

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Hello Tony,

On 06-17-19 10:35, Jeff Smith wrote to Michiel Van Der Vlist <=-

I have setup the HE.NET tunnel that I acquired. It is installed for use
by 1:14/6, bbs.twisted-balloon.org, 2001:470:1f10:acd::2,
65.103.12.164. I can connect and send mail via IPv6. And port 24554
looks be open via Ipv6. Let me know what you see from your end.

Looks good here. :)

Cool. Part of the problem might have been the use of Synchronet's BinkIt mailer. As the connection issue looks to have ceased when I changed from BinkIt to BinkD as the mailer for Synchronet.

Jeff



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Hello Jeff,

On Tuesday June 18 2019 20:59, you wrote to me:

The system that I installed the tunnel on here is running Synchronet.
I was initially using the BinkIt mailer for SBBS. But after the
connection issues and as a test I disabled BinkIt and installed BinkD 1.1a-96. It looks to have started up upon installation while I was
editing BinkD's config file. For testing I have disabled it's
automatic loading. I will be tweaking the BinkD config to work more
easily with SBBS. SBBS is tossing the incoming mail received by BinkD.

Seems to work now:

+ 07:49 [1944] call to 1:14/6@fidonet
07:49 [1944] trying bbs.twisted-balloon.org [2001:470:1f10:acd::2]...
07:49 [1944] connected
+ 07:49 [1944] outgoing session with bbs.twisted-balloon.org:24554 [2001:470:1f10:acd::2]
- 07:49 [1944] SYS The Twisted Balloon
- 07:49 [1944] ZYZ Jeff Smith
- 07:49 [1944] LOC Anoka, MN, USA
- 07:49 [1944] NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
- 07:49 [1944] TIME Wed, 19 Jun 2019 00:49:06 -0500
- 07:49 [1944] VER binkd/1.1a-96/Linux binkp/1.1
+ 07:49 [1944] addr: 1:14/6@fidonet
+ 07:49 [1944] addr: 21:128/2@fsxnet (n/a or busy)
- 07:49 [1944] OPT EXTCMD GZ
+ 07:49 [1944] Remote supports EXTCMD mode
+ 07:49 [1944] Remote supports GZ mode
+ 07:49 [1944] done (to 1:14/6@fidonet, OK, S/R: 0/0 (0/0 bytes))
07:49 [1944] session closed, quitting...
07:49 [3428] the queue is empty, quitting...


Cheers, Michiel

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Hi Jeff!

18 Jun 2019 13:45, from Jeff Smith -> Wilfred/Richard:

IPv6 seems OK, but your binkp port is closed:

That's odd as 1:14/6 can send and receive Fido traffic from other
systems using IPv6. For testing I have forced Ipv6 BinkP connections
to 1:14/6 from other Fido systems here and they connect fine.

Maybe you restarted exactly when I tested?
The port is now open ...

fido@vserv:~$ nmap -6 bbs.twisted-balloon.org -p 24554
Starting Nmap 7.40 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2019-06-19 09:27 CEST
Nmap scan report for bbs.twisted-balloon.org (2001:470:1f10:acd::2)
Host is up (0.12s latency).
Other addresses for bbs.twisted-balloon.org (not scanned): 65.103.12.164
rDNS record for 2001:470:1f10:acd::2: tunnel539534-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net

PORT STATE SERVICE 24554/tcp open binkp

Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 0.32 seconds

CU, Ricsi

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Hi Tony!

19 Jun 2019 11:17, from Tony Langdon -> Richard Menedetter:

IPv6 seems OK, but your binkp port is closed:
fido@vserv:~$ nmap -6 bbs.twisted-balloon.org -p 24554

Hmm, I was able to connect to his binkp port.

It is open now.
It was not when I tested previously ;)

CU, Ricsi

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Good ${greeting_time}, Jeff!

17 Jun 2019 10:35:48, you wrote to Michiel Van Der Vlist:

I have setup the HE.NET tunnel that I acquired. It is installed for
use by 1:14/6, bbs.twisted-balloon.org, 2001:470:1f10:acd::2, 65.103.12.164. I can connect and send mail via IPv6. And port 24554
looks be open via Ipv6. Let me know what you see from your end.

Now:

% nc -6 2001:470:1f10:acd::2 24554
SYS The Twisted Balloon ZYZ Jeff Smith LOC Anoka, MN, USA NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP %TIME Wed, 19 Jun 2019 03:49:26 -0500 "VER binkd/1.1a-96/Linux binkp/1.1 " 1:14/6@fidonet 21:1/128.2@fsxnet

Previously there was binkd with out-of-box example config.


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On 06-18-19 21:04, Jeff Smith wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Cool. Part of the problem might have been the use of Synchronet's
BinkIt mailer. As the connection issue looks to have ceased when I
changed from BinkIt to BinkD as the mailer for Synchronet.

Is Synchronet itself listening on IPv6?


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On 06-19-19 09:30, Richard Menedetter wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

It is open now.
It was not when I tested previously ;)

Yeah, Jeff said he switched mailers. :)


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||*()*|| Hi Jeff!

19 June 2019, Tony Langdon wrote to Jeff Smith:

I have setup the HE.NET tunnel that I acquired. It is installed
for use by 1:14/6, bbs.twisted-balloon.org, 2001:470:1f10:acd::2,
65.103.12.164. I can connect and send mail via IPv6. And port
24554 looks be open via Ipv6. Let me know what you see from your
end.

--------------
+ 19 Jun 17:36:25 [2556] call to 1:14/6@fidonet
19 Jun 17:36:26 [2556] trying f6.n14.z1.binkp.net [2001:470:1f10:acd::2]...
19 Jun 17:36:26 [2556] connected
+ 19 Jun 17:36:26 [2556] outgoing session with f6.n14.z1.binkp.net:24554 [2001:470:1f10:acd::2]
- 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] SYS The Twisted Balloon
- 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] ZYZ Jeff Smith
- 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] LOC Anoka, MN, USA
- 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
- 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] TIME Wed, 19 Jun 2019 09:26:26 -0500
- 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] VER binkd/1.1a-96/Linux binkp/1.1
+ 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] addr: 1:14/6@fidonet
+ 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] addr: 21:1/128.2@fsxnet (n/a or busy)
- 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] OPT EXTCMD GZ
+ 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] Remote supports EXTCMD mode
+ 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] Remote supports GZ mode
+ 19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] done (to 1:14/6@fidonet, OK, S/R: 0/0 (0/0 bytes))
19 Jun 17:36:27 [2556] session closed, quitting...
-------------


Best Regards. Andrey

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Hello Tony,

On 06-18-19 21:04, Jeff Smith wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Cool. Part of the problem might have been the use of Synchronet's
BinkIt mailer. As the connection issue looks to have ceased when I
changed from BinkIt to BinkD as the mailer for Synchronet.

Is Synchronet itself listening on IPv6?

Synchronet itself I don't think listens for activity on ports. Now the BinkIT mailer that now comes with the current versions of Synchronet does. In the past one had to setup and use BinkD as a FTN mailer. I recall telling BinkIT to listen on both an v4 and a v6 IP and I got an error. But with a IPv6 tunnel I wouldn't think that would be necessary. In any event BinkD seems to function fine with the IPv6 tunnel.

Jeff


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On 06-19-19 12:34, Jeff Smith wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Is Synchronet itself listening on IPv6?

Synchronet itself I don't think listens for activity on ports. Now the

Telnet? SSH? Besides, as DM pointed out, the JS modules jisten on their ports
on the addresses specified in sbbs.ini.

; IP address of network interface to bind to (defaults to ANY/ALL interfaces):

Interface=10.69.181.6,2001:44b8:4176:f100::6,202.12.89.162,10.21.1.109,fd00:0:f 1d0:0:15:2:6d:0,fd00:0:f1d0:0:539:2:67:0,fd00:0:f1d0:0:1b0:1:65:0,10.43.21.101

Mine's particularly complex, because 2 BBSs are sharing the same machine (using
separate IPs), and the system is on multiple networks. Therefore, I have to expliticitly specify where SBBS listens, to avoid conflicts with other software, but the vast majority of people shouldn't need to do this.

DM did suggest using

Interface=::

to explicitly specify all IPv6 interfaces, which should also do IPv4 on Linux, even though the default is to listen on all interfaces.

BinkIT mailer that now comes with the current versions of Synchronet
does. In the past one had to setup and use BinkD as a FTN mailer. I
recall telling BinkIT to listen on both an v4 and a v6 IP and I got an error. But with a IPv6 tunnel I wouldn't think that would be necessary.
In any event BinkD seems to function fine with the IPv6 tunnel.

What OS are you running on? If it's Linux, try telling it to listen only on IPv6 (::).

I still use BinkD, because I like that software, and had been using it for years, but heard a lot of good things about BinkIT.


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