Hello Nick,

 na> There appears to be a bug in the PC-Micro "Net2bbs"
 na> program, where after long
 na> periods of operation it just randomly decides to refuse
 na> Telnet connections
 na> coming from the website... the Flash operation on port 843.

 na> I understand that the author is busy with real-life, so the
 na> only workaround I
 na> can think of is to script something that restarts Net2bbs.

While I'm often busy, I do respond to email to mike at pcmicro dot com.

The issue you describes sounds like a recently reported issue with the
AntiScanner feature, which has been fixed in the current beta.
In the last few release versions of Net2BBS blocking sockets were used by
¨default which caused that AnsiScanner feature to sometimes make a
¨false-positive and thus add the IP address of the offending client to it's
¨temporary block-cache.

I suggest you just edit your net2bbs.ini to include
"AntiScanner=0" to avoid ¨the false positive, or join the NetFoss
mailing list to get the latest beta.I ¨am planning to put out a release
version shortly.

Regards, Mike