Hello Rob,

On Friday January 20 2023 04:36, you wrote to me:

 RM> As for the connection, its open and packets are flowing with my hub.
 RM> But I do have your geo location blocked. When i was first setting up
 RM> my Spitfire BBS using NetSerial a year ago i was getting a number of
 RM> bots from that location and it was crashing Spitfire so I may have got
 RM> overly aggressive.

 RM> I just put a few IP's on a whitelist so perhaps its working now?

Yes, I can connect now:

+ 13:58 [3224] call to 1:105/44@fidonet
  13:58 [3224] trying x-bit.org [50.109.246.145]:24556...
  13:58 [3224] connected
+ 13:58 [3224] outgoing session with x-bit.org:24556 [50.109.246.145]
- 13:58 [3224] OPT CRAM-MD5-975f228524d39604555adff619da654b CRYPT
+ 13:58 [3224] Remote requests MD mode
+ 13:58 [3224] Remote requests CRYPT mode
- 13:58 [3224] SYS The X-BIT BBS
- 13:58 [3224] ZYZ Rob McGee
- 13:58 [3224] LOC Portland, Oregon
- 13:58 [3224] NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
- 13:58 [3224] TIME Fri Jan 20 2023 04:58:06 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time)
- 13:58 [3224] VER BinkIT/2.41,JSBinkP/4,sbbs3.19b/Win32 binkp/1.1
+ 13:58 [3224] addr: 1:105/44@fidonet
+ 13:58 [3224] done (to 1:105/44@fidonet, OK, S/R: 0/0 (0/0 bytes))
  13:58 [3224] session closed, quitting...
  13:58 [2700] the queue is empty, quitting...


Cheers, Michiel

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