Re: SBBS and services under Linux
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Tue Nov 12 2019 07:20 am

 PF> I've run Synchronet for years under Windows and wanted to understand how 
 PF> other people here configure their BBSes when running under *nix.

So I run SBBS in a docker container. But dont let docker confuse you. The
reason I use docker, is it makes it super easy to move an application from Host
A to host B - and I can do it in minutes. (Ever tried to "reinstall" an app on
a new host, go through the config, then move the data, and there is always
something that you missed/forgot or didnt do - docker completely alleviates
that.)

Anyway, so the container is configured to receive connections on the ports you
desire (22,23,25,80, etc).

For mail, I have another (group of) containers that handle mail spam and mail
routing - the group being sendmail, rspam, clamav - they all talk to each other
on the internal docker network. Mail for the BBS, goes to the BBSes port 25,
mail for my other domains goes to my mail server (another docker container).

I could put nginx in front, and have it proxy stuff through to SBBS - to port
80 - I actually havent done that you as I havent got around to it. (But I do
that with web apps I'm hosting or developing.)

Telnet is portforwarded through with my firewall - which is opnsense.

Now, having everything inside docker, if I dont like who I host with, its
pretty easy to move everything somewhere else (home or another VPS) - and I'm
actually doing that with a bunch of web sites that I'm managing.
...ëîå*

... Hypochondriac: someone who enjoys bad health.

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