You can make Amibinkd stay stable for a few days if you give it enough stack but it will crash eventually.
I have a trapdoor.cfg but I haven't started to mess around with telnetd.devi yet. I will soon, though.
I have recently put my Excelsior! BBS back online and am trying to get Fidonet going with it again thru the internet. The bbs is working
fine with telnetd.device and accepting calls on port 6400. I am
trying to get amibinkd set up to receive mail. I can poll my boss
with it to send and pick up netmail and echomail but the boss has not
been able to make contact with my BBS. I know amibinkd works through
port 24554 and I have this port open on my router as i do port 6400
for calls to the BBS.
Is this all I need to do besides running amibinkd as a server?
I'm not sure if there is some other place I need to open the port in
the software?
Does anyone have experience using the Amiga version? Any help would be gratly greatly appreciated!
Tim
CIA Amiga BBS
ciaamigabbs.dynu.net:6400
I guess I'm going to give up on amibinkd.
I can poll with it and receive netmail and echomail ok but every timesomeone tries to connect to my
BBS via Fido the machine resets itself.
The port is open and the bbs machine
never reset until i started running amibinkd as a server.
Does anyone have a working example trapdoor.cfg file that shows how to use telnetd.device instead of a modem.
Amibinkd is as most of us know a hack - it's a rewrite of Binkd which never got done. The source was never published.
Feel free to do it! :)
You can make Amibinkd stay stable for a few days if you give it enough stack but it will crash eventually.
I have a trapdoor.cfg but I haven't started to mess around with telnetd.device yet. I will soon, though.
Yes that is all you need to do. Open 24554 (TCP) in your firewall/router/whatever and point it with a port forward to your
Amiga and the same port.
Beware, however - Amibinkd will crash regurarely and take the entire system with it no matter how big of a stack you give it.
I now believe it is a Y2K problem with the BBS software itself. Only in Echomail areas. When I post an outgoing echomail, the date shows up as
Does anyone have any idea how to get in touch with the owners of Excelsior? I have tried every link and email address I could find with
On 07/12/18, Tim Grooms said the following...
I now believe it is a Y2K problem with the BBS software itself. Only i Echomail areas. When I post an outgoing echomail, the date shows up as
Does anyone have any idea how to get in touch with the owners of Excelsior? I have tried every link and email address I could find with
Hi Tim, I was talking to another sysOp of a E! board and he too feels his issues with the system are Y2K issues.. If he doesn't log on to the BBS afte reboot it locks up and just sits there when someone dials in. He also mentioned some other things too. No one seems to be able to get in touch wit anyone related to the programming of E! I would love to see a update to fix some of the bugs found I am in the process of adding a second BBS to my system and that BBS will be an E! board as I ran one back in the 90's but if things don't work right easily I will just spend the $$$ and buy the CNet Pr board and not have any issues with it..
Hi Tim, I was talking to another sysOp of a E! board and he too feels h issues with the system are Y2K issues.. If he doesn't log on to the BBS
reboot it locks up and just sits there when someone dials in. He also
Hi Al,
I think that Sysop of the E! board you were talking to is me ha! I run CIA Amiga BBS and have all the Excelsior! stuff I could find posted
there for others to download. Haven't been able to get in touch with
This never seemed to work with my emulated system. I am using CNet's FTNFTP and TOSS for now. CNet will get better with FTN in the future!
I am also tinkering with Amibinkd v9.02 and can get it to
connect to a Mystic host, but no packets were ever exchanged, and also when that Mystic system calls my system as a net call, there is also
no answer from Amibinkd. I
have the same default ports open. I can share my config if you would like. Maybe we can get this thing to work one day!?
//
// Gary McCulloch of Reign Of Fire BBS.
rofbbs.ddns.net:2300
\X/ JoinLink - RetroNet - C=Net - FidoNet (931)/494-9100
Hi Gary,
I've been using amibinkd now since probably May or so. It is working pretty
well for me. I connect with all of the following networks: FidoNet, C=Net,
RetroNet, PiNet, fsxNet, MicroNet and The Quantum Wormhole Net. I am able to
poll them with no problems and also receive mail from them with no problems.
Are you running it in Server mode when you start your bbs? I think it is just
amibinkd -s to start it in server mode. Will have to look at my config files.
If you'd like sometime I can take a look at your config file to see if I can
help. I am using the standart binkd ports.
I am running Zeus 1.7 now at my BBS.. (See tag below). I started back up with
Excelsior! and it would receive mail OK but could never make it pick up
the
outgoing messages. I think it is due to a Y2K bug in the code because the dates on the outgoing messages were screwed up so I switched over to Zeus.
If I can be of any help you can message me here or at my BBS or via Email: timgrooms@gmail.com
Tim
domain fidonet CNet:Echomail/outbound/ 1
domain fido alias-for fidonet
domain fidonet.org alias-for fidonet
domain retronet CNet:Echomail/outbound/ 80
domain cnet CNet:Echomail/outbound/ 64
domain commodorenet alias-for cnet
# Your addresses, 4D or 5D:
# address <addr1> ...
#
address 1:154/50@fidonet 80:774/69@retronet 64:500/2@cnet
Hello Gary!
07 Dec 18 21:02, you wrote to Tim Grooms:
domain fidonet CNet:Echomail/outbound/ 1
domain fido alias-for fidonet
domain fidonet.org alias-for fidonet
domain retronet CNet:Echomail/outbound/ 80
domain cnet CNet:Echomail/outbound/ 64
domain commodorenet alias-for cnet
Change the 80 and 64 on the above to 1
It might sound strande, but that's how binkd works.
# Your addresses, 4D or 5D:
# address <addr1> ...
#
address 1:154/50@fidonet 80:774/69@retronet 64:500/2@cnet
Put these on seprate lines.
That's all I can think of after seing your config file...
That's all I can think of after seing your config file...
I made those changes. Now how do you start Amibinkd withought having a Shell window open? I get you use "amibinkd -s amibinkd.cfg".
Do you just add that to s:userstartup?
Okay, I added it to my user.startup and it loads and is
working. Now, how and what commands can I use to test it? I am so
new at this, I hope you don't mind all the questions. Like I want to request an AREAFIX or request to ge the latest nodelists ect...
To make binkd call out and then exit use this:
binkd -p -P 1:1/20 binkd.conf
Binkd has different process tree's deping on the options sent to it at startup. So you can have the server part
sitting in the background all the time, and then fire up the client side
to
make outgoing connections.
You send areafix/filefix requests via netmail. ie:
To: areafix@1:1/20
Subject: yoursecretpassword
+AMIGA
+GAME-DUDE
-SHITAREA
-!-
NOTE: I have changed the end of the above sample, so the messages doesn't get
munged as it passes around the
network. You need to use three - at the end of the message...
Thanks for all the help. If I wanted and AREAFIX for all of
RetroNet's echos, I would have to add +ECHONAME for each echo?
On Sun 9-Dec-2018 12:12p, Stephen Walsh@3:633/280.0 said to GaryNo, MS areafix@80:774/1 your password as subject and in the body of message
To make binkd call out and then exit use this:McCulloch:
binkd -p -P 1:1/20 binkd.conf
Binkd has different process tree's deping on the options sent to it at startup. So you can have the server part
sitting in the background all the time, and then fire up the client si to
make outgoing connections.
You send areafix/filefix requests via netmail. ie:
To: areafix@1:1/20
Subject: yoursecretpassword
+AMIGA
+GAME-DUDE
-SHITAREA
-!-
NOTE: I have changed the end of the above sample, so the messages does get
munged as it passes around the
network. You need to use three - at the end of the message...
Thanks for all the help. If I wanted and AREAFIX for all of RetroNet's echos, I would have to add +ECHONAME for each echo?
that depends on the areafix tool... that is the best way, yes... because you
can be selective instead of just sending +ALL or +* or %ALL or some such that
turns on everything you are allowed to connect to at that system...
perhaps you
might first try sending a %HELP and seeing what it tells you you can use/do ;)
)\/(ark
Always Mount a Scratch Monkey
Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer
doin' it
wrong...
... That well-known purveyor of fine wines, Wal-Mart. [snork] [snork]
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