If someone manages to get their IP banned by mystic, are they permanently banned or is it a temporary ban? I was testing fTelnet last night and managed to get myself banned. Even after removing my IP from blacklist.txt and adding it to whitelist.txt, a few minutes later I got banned again. I shut off the
IP banning for now. I'm guessing its permanent since my blacklist.txt has
866 IP addresses in it already after just a few weeks.

Immortal

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On 12/04/16, Immortal said the following...

If someone manages to get their IP banned by mystic, are they permanently banned or is it a temporary ban? I was testing fTelnet last night and managed to get myself banned. Even after removing my IP from blacklist.txt and adding it to whitelist.txt, a few minutes later I got banned again. I shut off the IP banning for now. I'm guessing its permanent since my blacklist.txt has 866 IP addresses in it already
after just a few weeks.

Immortal

I guess you got banned on mis2? I don't use it so I don't have quite that issue. The blacklist & whitelist are for mis2 only, mis using badip.txt and goodip.txt. Perhaps you didn't know that? Add your addresses to the
goodip.txt and whitelist.txt and the links you rely on (like FSXNET). I have most of the nodes on FSX & RTN nets in my goodip.txt so that doesn't happen.

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On 12/04/16, bcw142 said the following...

I guess you got banned on mis2? I don't use it so I don't have quite that issue. The blacklist & whitelist are for mis2 only, mis using badip.txt and goodip.txt. Perhaps you didn't know that? Add your addresses to the goodip.txt and whitelist.txt and the links you rely on (like FSXNET). I have most of the nodes on FSX & RTN nets in my goodip.txt so that
doesn't happen.

I have been running MIS, ran MIS2 for a while until I realized it wasn't running the events then switched to MIS. I think it was the BADIP.TXT that I got added to. I'll add myself to GOODIP.TXT, but I think I'll just disable blocking for now. I'm back to just running on my non standard port and not
on 23. As soon as I opened 23 back up, all 5 nodes were filled almost instantly, I couldn't even log into mystic -cfg. Pretty sad. I've run my
BBS on port 23 for years and never had such an issue until recently. My old Wildcat system was hard coded to port 23 and had no blocking capabilities at all and it was never a problem. Good thing, with only 2 or 4 nodes it would
be clogged full of bots 24/7.

Immortal

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Immortal wrote to bcw142 <=-

I have been running MIS, ran MIS2 for a while until I realized it

I run both with no dramas.


... But if I kill him, it would start a war.
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On 12/04/16, Immortal pondered and said...

If someone manages to get their IP banned by mystic, are they permanently banned or is it a temporary ban? I was testing fTelnet last night and

Permanently until the sysop removes them from badip.txt and blacklist.txt

Make sure you close and restart your servers to pick up any changes.

Best, Paul

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On 12/04/16, Immortal said the following...

I have been running MIS, ran MIS2 for a while until I realized it wasn't running the events then switched to MIS. I think it was the BADIP.TXT that I got added to. I'll add myself to GOODIP.TXT, but I think I'll
just disable blocking for now. I'm back to just running on my non standard port and not on 23. As soon as I opened 23 back up, all 5
nodes were filled almost instantly, I couldn't even log into mystic
-cfg. Pretty sad. I've run my BBS on port 23 for years and never had such an issue until recently. My old Wildcat system was hard coded to port 23 and had no blocking capabilities at all and it was never a problem. Good thing, with only 2 or 4 nodes it would be clogged full of bots 24/7.

Immortal

As long as it works for you;) There are a number of measures that can be
added including firewalls and other front-ends including Mystic. I'm under constant attack, but Mystic is doing OK with that for the most part. I've rarely had a problem getting in by doing it locally (mystic -cfg), they can't get in the SSH port I have opened (non-standard), so I can always get in that way. My data/badip.txt is up to 19990 entries but still seems to be running.

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On 12/05/16, Avon said the following...

Permanently until the sysop removes them from badip.txt and blacklist.txt

Make sure you close and restart your servers to pick up any changes.

Good to know, thanks.

Immortal

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