Hello Alan,

>>Upon further inspection I noticed that NO outbound connections were possible.
>> meaning that I couldn't surf the web, check email, Etc. on the BBBS PC.
>>BUT, I could connect to BBBS via an inbound connection from other PC's as wel
>> as my cell phone.

> Thankfully I have not experienced this. :)

> Sounds like networking (on the lan) is fine but the internet is not?
> What kind of connection does your cell phone use to connect to BBBS, is it
> using the lan or the internet?

The cell phone uses it own internet data connection and connects to BBBS
using BBBS's domain name bbs.ouijabrd.net. The PC's (Both my local
networked PC's as
as well remote PC's) can connect to BBBS using both IP and domain name
address for BBBS.

I checked all the usual things that might have caused the problem such as 
router, cabling, NIC's, Firewall, network settings and all look ok. The
inability to make an outbound connection just suddenly happened. The log at
that moment shows:

181012 20:31 Calling Prizm, filegate.net:24555
181012 20:31 CONNECT 57600/RAW
181012 20:31 BinkP mail session
181012 20:31 Prism bbs, 1:261/38.0
181012 20:31   AKA: 1:261/100.0
181012 20:31   AKA: 115:1000/0.0
181012 20:31   AKA: 115:1502/0.0
181012 20:31   AKA: 115:1502/1.0
181012 20:31   AKA: 115:1502/101.0
181012 20:31   AKA: 111:111/1000.0
181012 20:31 SysOp: Janis Kracht
181012 20:31  From: Slaterville Springs, NY
181012 20:31 Using: BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3 binkp/1.0
181012 20:31 Flags: XX
181012 20:31 Mail session completed
181012 20:31 --------------------------
181012 21:31 Calling Prizm, filegate.net:24555
181012 21:31 NO CARRIER
181012 22:01 Calling Prizm, filegate.net:24555
181012 22:01 NO CARRIER
181012 22:03 Calling Prizm, filegate.net:24555
181012 22:03 NO CARRIER

At that point (21:31 on 10/12/2018) I could not make any outbound network
connection. The problem did not look to be limited to BBBS as other
outbound connections such as web browsing were also not possible. But...
Inbound connections WERE still possible.


Jeff

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