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    From The Godfather@21:1/165 to All on Tuesday, June 02, 2020 22:34:55
    Hey all,

    So I just finished what should have been a 6 hour HTML class online. Just as they got to the plug in section (5 hours in,) my gmail wouldn't pull up a
    link and I got so far behind I'll have to rewatch a majority of todays
    session (uhg) .. however, I will, and when I do, I want to add a telnet terminal plug in to the web page I'm creating for this class. Can someone recommend or provide a link, to the one that most find works best? I'm using Visual Studio to write my HTML if that matters any....

    Any input would be awesome.

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to The Godfather on Wednesday, June 03, 2020 04:41:39
    On 02 Jun 2020, The Godfather said the following...

    Can someone recommend or provide a link, to the one that most find works best?

    The one that I use & have seen most everywhere is ftelnet.

    They have a wizard that will generate the code for you:

    http://embed-v2.ftelnet.ca/

    If you view the source of my page (www.nrbbs.net), I've just taken what was generated and wrapped it in <html> tags until I get around to adding more content.

    Jay

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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Warpslide on Wednesday, June 03, 2020 07:49:51
    The one that I use & have seen most everywhere is ftelnet.

    They have a wizard that will generate the code for you:

    http://embed-v2.ftelnet.ca/

    If you view the source of my page (www.nrbbs.net), I've just taken what was generated and wrapped it in <html> tags until I get around to adding more content.


    Jay,

    Thank you!

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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Warpslide on Wednesday, June 03, 2020 08:47:08

    On 03 Jun 2020, Warpslide said the following...
    http://embed-v2.ftelnet.ca/

    If you view the source of my page (www.nrbbs.net), I've just taken what was generated and wrapped it in <html> tags until I get around to adding more content.

    Jay

    This works great! Thank you! Of course, for some reason I have to be white listed due to my port number, but thats ok. Question for you .... My URL
    is through GoDaddy, however, my URL is currently directly connected to my
    BBS, I'd like to host both in the same place or at least same company,
    without paying for a second web address. If: www.theunderground.us and www.theunderground.us:10023 can't be achieved this way... whats a good "free" hosting site / "free" URL service? Go Daddy is a bit pricy for an
    unemployeed hobbiest.

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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to The Godfather on Wednesday, June 03, 2020 10:30:39
    On 03 Jun 2020, The Godfather said the following...

    This works great! Thank you! Of course, for some reason I have to be white listed due to my port number, but thats ok. Question for you .... My URL is through GoDaddy, however, my URL is currently directly
    connected to my BBS, I'd like to host both in the same place or at least same company, without paying for a second web address. If: www.theunderground.us and www.theunderground.us:10023 can't be achieved this way... whats a good "free" hosting site / "free" URL service? Go Daddy is a bit pricy for an unemployeed hobbiest.

    This is where subdomains come in.

    I currently have:

    bbs.nrbbs.net -> 173.33.12.16 (Where my BBS currently is)
    www.nrbbs.net -> 172.81.182.148 (Where my website is hosted)


    I'm assuming you have your domain (theunderground.us) registered with GoDaddy?

    I haven't used GoDaddy for quite some time, but you should be able to modify the DNS if your domain to setup something similar.

    Then you could have:

    bbs.theunderground.us -> 208.38.246.199
    www.theunderground.us -> Somewhere else

    Then people can connect to your board at bbs.theunderground.us:10023 and your website would be at www.

    If you host your BBS at home and your IP address changes from time-to-time,
    you could make bbs.theunderground.us a CNAME that points to a dynamic DNS service like:

    bbs.theunderground.us -> underground.ddns.net -> 208.38.246.199

    Then just run the dynamic dns client at the same location where your BBS is running and it will automatically update the IP address of the ddns.net
    domain name.

    As for website hosting, there are plenty of "free" ones out there, but I'm
    not sure which ones are good. Many of the free hosting plans don't let you
    use your own domain name, so you may have to redirect www.theunderground.us
    to something like theunderground.wordpress.com which I believe GoDaddy can do as well.

    Someone else may have a recommendation for a web hosting provider. I use a
    VPS with Linux & Apache installed for C$3.50 /mo which was the cheapest I
    could find for what I needed.


    This ended up being longer that I expected, and now I'm hoping I understood your question. Let me know if I'm way off base...

    Jay

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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Warpslide on Wednesday, June 03, 2020 13:05:10
    This ended up being longer that I expected, and now I'm hoping I understood your question. Let me know if I'm way off base...

    Jay

    Nope, this was perfect, I've saved it to a text file to refer to later once
    I'm done buliding out the page. (Tomorrow likely,) so thank you very much.
    I think Go Daddy hosts for free with the URL I pay for. I can call them to find out. Hopefully I can keep the www.theunderground.us:10023 as is and
    have the website pointed elsewhere within the single Go Daddy DNS manager platform. Will see ... Thanks so much for the instructions!!!!!!

    TG

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to The Godfather on Thursday, June 04, 2020 03:36:00
    Depending how tied you are to having a domain, you can look at something like ¨no-ip. You can have 3 names taped to one of their domains free, although you ¨do have to confirm them every 30 days..

    Spec


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  • From Ogg@21:4/106.21 to The Godfather on Wednesday, June 03, 2020 14:59:00
    Hello The!

    ** On Wednesday 03.06.20 - 08:47, The Godfather wrote to Warpslide:

    .. I'd like to host both in the same place or at least
    same company, without paying for a second web address. If: www.theunderground.us and www.theunderground.us:10023 can't be achieved this way... whats a good "free" hosting site / "free" URL service? Go Daddy is a bit pricy for an unemployeed hobbiest.


    Use subdomains. (?)

    bbs1.theunderground.us:11111
    bbs2.theunderground.us:22222

    ..etc.

    (I see someone else beat me to it.. and with much more detail. Apparently
    I was busy operating my biz the best I could muster today. It's a deep
    hole to climb out of.)


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  • From The Godfather@21:1/165 to Ogg on Wednesday, June 03, 2020 21:52:48
    (I see someone else beat me to it.. and with much more detail.
    Apparently I was busy operating my biz the best I could muster today. It's a deep hole to climb out of.)


    How are things going? Are you away from the riots?

    And thanks for the reply. I'm juggling a few different things right now so I'll have another question posted with a new subject line (smile).

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  • From Adept@21:2/108 to Spectre on Thursday, June 04, 2020 02:52:50
    Depending how tied you are to having a domain, you can look at something like no-ip. You can have 3 names taped to one of their domains free, although you do have to confirm them every 30 days..

    But having a domain is so... well, okay, I was going to say, "easy", but
    there is an aspect of figuring out how to set up the DNS, and you may have to do something like use NameCheap's piece of software that automatically
    updates the IP address if you're using a home computer.

    And most domains are under $15 a year, so it's not super expensive.

    I'm sure I'm biased, but it does seem like something that's easier than when people were doing dynamic DNS stuff back around the turn of the century.

    (Obviously, sharing information on other available options, especially when people are experimenting, is a uniformly good thing, so thanks for sharing, regardless.)

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  • From Spectre@21:3/101 to Adept on Thursday, June 04, 2020 16:43:00
    But having a domain is so... well, okay, I was going to say, "easy",
    but there is an aspect of figuring out how to set up the DNS, and
    you may have to do something like use NameCheap's piece of software
    that automatically updates the IP address if you're using a home
    computer.

    Maybe I should look into it again. It was probably the turn of the century ¨when I last considered it.:) Yeah I have the address updater sitting in the ¨background. Mostly it stays the same though.

    Spec


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  • From Warpslide@21:3/110 to Spectre on Thursday, June 04, 2020 07:04:11
    On 04 Jun 2020, Spectre said the following...

    Yeah I have the address updater sitting in the background. Mostly it stays the same though.

    It was weird, I had the same IP address for the better part of a year
    beginning with 99.blah. Then when we all started working from home, I had a couple of days of intermittent connectivity, now I have IPs in the 173.blah range and it changes every couple of days.

    I guess my ISP did some work somewhere on their end when the bedroom
    community I live in suddenly transformed into a home-office community.

    Jay

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