Hi Stephen,

Stephen Walsh wrote to Alan Ianson:
SW> Hello Alan.
SW> 
SW> 29 Mar 09 14:27, you wrote to me:
SW> 
SW>  SW>> So I can have a link to system a (that also has others linked into
SW>  SW>> it), and also a link to system z and they will have access to the
SW>  SW>> systems via a?
SW> 
SW>  AI> I believe that is so. If you add another BBS to your board I would 
SW> see
SW>  AI> that BBS here also even though we are not directly connected. Even if
SW>  AI> you added another BBS I am already connected to I don't think that
SW>  AI> would be a problem, the chat server would do what it needs to do.
SW> 
SW> The other operator has setup his system on freebsd, and has been hacking 
SW> the
SW> source.
SW> He might have done something to break the connection system for the chat 
SW> functions.
SW> 
SW> 
SW>  AI> If you can add another BBS and we'll see what happens.
SW> 
SW> Have tryed that and it didn't work as planed! {at}-(
SW> He was having issues connecting here. I have the required ports open on 
SW> the
SW> adsl mode, and forwared to this machine though.
SW> (this macine is in it's own dmz and open to the world [yes i;m running a 
SW> firewall on it and only have the ports I want open, open])
SW> 
SW> His applyed for a fidonet node number down here, so William might apear in 

SW> this echo in the near future.

The system is a bit sensitive to reverse DNS lookups. A lot of systems on
dsl have other reverse names then forward names in the DNS. The setting if
the "other" side is a dynamic or fixed IP systems has effects too for
connecting chat systems.




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