1. Forum
  2. Usenet
  3. COMP.SYS.TI

  • New TELNET TI-99/4A BBS's

    From Beery@21:4/109 to All on Sun Mar 21 21:02:53 2021
    There are two BBS's that have went online supporting the TI-99/4A and Geneve 9640 that are running the AFTERHOURS BBS software with the TIPI. They can be accessed through a Telnet client.

    They are:

    Mytbox99.ddns.net port 61643
    TheKeep.net port 9918

    There is also two other BBS's available Telnet including:

    Fusionbbs.ddns.net port 9640
    Heatwave.ddns.net port 9640

    The 9640News BBS is not accessible thanks to AT&T blocking all customers from inbound connections on their WIFI cellular network.

    Beery

    --Beery Miller -- 9640 News BBS -- 9640news.ddns.net:9640 --

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/31 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: 9640 News BBS (21:4/109)
  • From Dennis Boone@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 22 10:38:14 2021
    The 9640News BBS is not accessible thanks to AT&T blocking all customers from inbound connections on their WIFI cellular network.

    You know the cheapest cloud guest you can find would let you tunnel that
    stuff into your local network, right?

    De

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Bill.The.Cat@tkp.thekeep.net@21:1/5 to All on Mon Mar 22 08:43:36 2021
    Also there is still The Hidden Reef BBS that runs on a TI-99/4A but is
    only accessable via modem normally, but if you telnet to thekeep.net:23
    and create an account you can use my dialout to dial it.. /go dialout
    and then D1 to dial the reef..

    The direct modem number for the reef is 718-448-9402

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Dumas Walker@21:1/175 to BEERY on Mon Mar 22 10:35:00 2021
    The 9640News BBS is not accessible thanks to AT&T blocking all customers from bound connections on their WIFI cellular network.

    I will have to check some of those boards out when I get a chance. How
    much longer are you stuck with AT&T?

    Mike


    * SLMR 2.1a * Governments absorb 100x their weight in excess liberties.
    --- SBBSecho 3.12-Linux
    * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (21:1/175)
  • From Beery@21:4/109 to Dumas Walker on Fri Mar 26 20:57:07 2021
    I am stuck with AT&T until late summer. My only other option is to go back to AT&T DSL.

    Beery

    --Beery Miller -- 9640 News BBS -- 9640news.ddns.net:9640 --

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/31 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: 9640 News BBS (21:4/109)
  • From Beery@21:4/109 to Dennis Boone on Fri Mar 26 21:03:11 2021
    I have heard there is a way to tunnel in, but I have not seen a description with enough detail I could follow to configure to permit it.

    The 9640News BBS is not accessible thanks to AT&T blocking all customer from inbound connections on their WIFI cellular network.

    You know the cheapest cloud guest you can find would let you tunnel that stuff into your local network, right?

    --Beery Miller -- 9640 News BBS -- 9640news.ddns.net:9640 --

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/31 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: 9640 News BBS (21:4/109)
  • From Bill.The.Cat@tkp.thekeep.net@21:1/5 to All on Sat Mar 27 09:31:42 2021
    I have heard there is a way to tunnel in, but I have not seen a description BE>with enough detail I could follow to configure to permit it.

    The 9640News BBS is not accessible thanks to AT&T blocking all custo from inbound connections on their WIFI cellular network.

    You know the cheapest cloud guest you can find would let you tunnel tha stuff into your local network, right?

    google vpn tunnel vm

    aquire a vm on the internet somewhere with a public ip
    set up a vpn from that server to your home network machine with a
    private lan
    port forward on the vm to the private lan ip address
    profit

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Scott Alfter@21:1/5 to Beery on Tue Mar 30 19:18:35 2021
    In article <1214545331@f109.n4.z21.fsxnet>,
    Beery <Beery@f109.n4.z21.fsxnet> wrote:
    I have heard there is a way to tunnel in, but I have not seen a description >with enough detail I could follow to configure to permit it.

    Perhaps an SSH reverse tunnel would work. Let's say you have a host of some sort (perhaps a VPS, or maybe even a webhost) at invalid.tld. The host you want to make accessible opens an SSH connection to invalid.tld and keeps it open:

    ssh -NR 12345:localhost:23 invalid.tld

    This will tunnel port 12345 on invalid.tld to port 23 on your firewalled system. People then telnet to invalid.tld:12345 to connect.

    Sometimes the connection might be dropped for inactivity. Restarting it
    with an infinite loop in a shell script will minimize downtime.

    _/_
    / v \ Scott Alfter (remove the obvious to send mail)
    (IIGS( https://alfter.us/ Top-posting!
    \_^_/ >What's the most annoying thing on Usenet?

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Dennis Boone@21:1/5 to All on Tue Mar 30 17:47:32 2021
    Perhaps an SSH reverse tunnel would work.

    There's a tool called autossh that might help automate establishing
    and maintaining a tunnel setup using ssh.

    De

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)
  • From Beery@21:4/109 to Scott Alfter on Wed Mar 31 16:40:25 2021
    Perhaps an SSH reverse tunnel would work. Let's say you have a host of somesort (perhaps a VPS, or maybe even a webhost) at invalid.tld. The host youwant to make accessible opens an SSH connection to invalid.tld
    and keeps itopen:

    ssh -NR 12345:localhost:23 invalid.tld

    What I have is a program called Mystic BBS running on Windows 10 I need to reach from the outside.

    Beery

    --Beery Miller -- 9640 News BBS -- 9640news.ddns.net:9640 --

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2020/10/31 (Windows/64)
    * Origin: 9640 News BBS (21:4/109)
  • From Dennis Boone@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 1 16:25:36 2021
    What I have is a program called Mystic BBS running on Windows 10 I need to reach from the outside.

    So you still get a tiny vm on one of the hosting services - AWS, Digital
    Ocean, etc. Make sure you can ssh into it from home. Arrange for a
    hostname for this vm that you can publish for your BBS. Imagine this
    is bbs.beery.net.

    Then you do one of two things:

    1. Use an SSH client on the Windows 10 machine to set up the connection described in previous messages, although you may do it with mouse clicky
    gui behaviors instead of a command line. It sets up a tunnel from the
    Windows machine to the vm, and arranges for connections to a port on the
    vm to be tunneled through to a specified port on the windows machine.
    Specifics vary depending on what SSH client you select.

    2. Use a razzpi or similar inside your local network, and use a
    modified ssh command there which establishes the tunnel, and connects to
    the bbs telnet port on the Windows machine across the room (instead of
    to a port on the same machine) when a connection comes in. If the IP
    address of the Windows machine is 192.168.1.3 and the bbs listens on
    port 23, then the command is going to look something like:

    ssh -NR23:192.168.1.3:23 username@bbs.beery.net

    You'll either need to create keys so the ssh can happen automatically (recommended), or type the password each time the tunnel needs to be
    started up.

    If you've done the keys, you can also use autossh to _keep_ the tunnel
    up in the face of occasional network flakies.

    client -> vm [tunnel -> win-or-razzpi] -> bbs port

    Because you set this tunnel up _outbound_, it doesn't get blocked. And
    the vm doesn't have [much] blocking at the cloud host datacenter.

    De

    --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
    * Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)