Hello Nicholas.

18 Oct 14 22:33, you wrote to Paul Quinn:

 JK>>>> You have to have a *real* mailer I guess  - i.e. not one that
 JK>>>> limits you to one type of connection...
[...]
 NB> SBBS accepts incoming connections on port 23, as does any other BBS
 NB> software unless you tell it to do otherwise. FTN transfer over
 NB> "telnet" should have (and maybe is?) always been defaulted to a
 NB> different port. I believe BBBS does this on a high port (maybe even
 NB> higher than the 24554 binkp port?).

 NB> Either way, I'm sure that was known when the FTN over telnet protocol
 NB> was created.

cat /etc/services|grep fido

binkp           24554/tcp                # binkp fidonet protocol
tfido           60177/tcp                # fidonet EMSI over telnet
fido            60179/tcp                # fidonet EMSI over TCP

My system supports all three.




Stephen

--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5