Hello All!

I want to set up a second bbs system on a Raspberry pi to handle a simple-ish service namely for ELIST.

As my main system uses the default of 24554 I have port forwarding set on the router to the main system but need to do the same for port 24555 for the Pi.

Question how do I change the mbse set up to use this change of port as I cannot
find anywhere where this is defined.


Any one have a clue to finding this and changing it ?


Vincent

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//Hello Vincent,//

on *4/13/2022* at *14:39:48* You wrote in area *MBSE*
to *All* about *"Changing the Standard port number used"*.

[snip]

As my main system uses the default of 24554 I have port forwarding set on the router to the main system but need to do the same for port 24555 for the Pi.

Question how do I change the mbse set up to use this change of port as I cannot
find anywhere where this is defined.

Any one have a clue to finding this and changing it ?

Id be tempted to solve this just using the port forwarding. So just forward port 24555 > IPAddressOfPi > 24554

If you are determined to change the ports for any configured services, MBSE uses inetd right?

check out the setup.sh script - at the end of this it configures /etc/services which the inetd service uses.
My first step would be to edit /etc/services then try a reboot and see if inetd/xinetd picks up the new service config.

HTH

Louis
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Hello Louis!

Wednesday April 13 2022 17:09, you wrote to me:

//Hello Vincent,//

on *4/13/2022* at *14:39:48* You wrote in area *MBSE*
to *All* about *"Changing the Standard port number used"*.

[snip]

As my main system uses the default of 24554 I have port
forwarding set on the router to the main system but need to do
the same for port 24555 for the Pi.

Question how do I change the mbse set up to use this change of
port as I cannot find anywhere where this is defined.

Any one have a clue to finding this and changing it ?

Id be tempted to solve this just using the port forwarding. So just
forward port 24555 > IPAddressOfPi > 24554

That should do it - thanks for reminding me.

If you are determined to change the ports for any configured services,
MBSE uses inetd right?

check out the setup.sh script - at the end of this it configures /etc/services which the inetd service uses. My first step would be to
edit /etc/services then try a reboot and see if inetd/xinetd picks up
the new service config.

Yes that is set for 24554 but I do not know what actually this does in relation
to mbse.

Documentation is a bit poor on this in the mbse docs.

I will stick to your first idea - well at least until it doesn't work, that is.

Vincent

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I want to set up a second bbs system on a Raspberry pi to handle a simple-ish service namely for ELIST.

As my main system uses the default of 24554 I have port forwarding set on the router to the main system but need to do the same for port 24555 for the Pi.

Change the binkp port in /etc/services to 24555 on that machine.

Question how do I change the mbse set up to use this change of port as I cannot find anywhere where this is defined.

I'm not sure if MBSE can be configured to use a different port.

Any one have a clue to finding this and changing it ?

Changing the port in /etc/services has worked for me in the past.

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Hello Alan!

Wednesday April 13 2022 14:41, you wrote to me:

I want to set up a second bbs system on a Raspberry pi to handle a
simple-ish service namely for ELIST.

As my main system uses the default of 24554 I have port forwarding
set on the router to the main system but need to do the same for
port 24555 for the Pi.

Change the binkp port in /etc/services to 24555 on that machine.

Question how do I change the mbse set up to use this change of port
as I cannot find anywhere where this is defined.

I'm not sure if MBSE can be configured to use a different port.

Any one have a clue to finding this and changing it ?

Changing the port in /etc/services has worked for me in the past.

Thanks done that as well.


Vincent

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Hello Vincent,

13 Apr 22 15:39, you wrote to All:

Any one have a clue to finding this and changing it ?

Change the port number in /etc/services and restart (x)inetd.

That's it. :)

-- Sean

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Hello Vincent!

13 Apr 22 15:39, you wrote to all:

I want to set up a second bbs system on a Raspberry pi to handle a simple-ish service namely for ELIST.

As my main system uses the default of 24554 I have port forwarding set
on the router to the main system but need to do the same for port
24555 for the Pi.

Question how do I change the mbse set up to use this change of port as
I cannot find anywhere where this is defined.

Any one have a clue to finding this and changing it ?

Change the binkp entry in /etc/services on your Raspberry Pi to 24555/tcp. Then restart (x)inetd and you should be done. The other option is to have your router forward incoming for port 24555 to port 24554 on the RPi.

Regards,

Andrew

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Hello Louis!

Wednesday April 13 2022 17:09, you wrote to me:

//Hello Vincent,//

on *4/13/2022* at *14:39:48* You wrote in area *MBSE*
to *All* about *"Changing the Standard port number used"*.

[snip]

As my main system uses the default of 24554 I have port
forwarding set on the router to the main system but need to do
the same for port 24555 for the Pi.

Question how do I change the mbse set up to use this change of
port as I cannot find anywhere where this is defined.

Any one have a clue to finding this and changing it ?

Id be tempted to solve this just using the port forwarding. So just
forward port 24555 > IPAddressOfPi > 24554

If you are determined to change the ports for any configured services,
MBSE uses inetd right?

check out the setup.sh script - at the end of this it configures /etc/services which the inetd service uses. My first step would be to
edit /etc/services then try a reboot and see if inetd/xinetd picks up
the new service config.

I have tried the following :

Set in router port forwarding to the internal system at (192.168.1.75) inbound port 24555 to 24554 with the Pi set in /etc/service to have BINKP as 24554. Does not work.

Change xinetd BINKP to 24555 and the router port forwarding to from 24555 to 24555.

This does NOT work as well so I am now stuck.

Note in /etc/service I have two entries for binkp i.e., both udp and tcp set
as the same as well as :

ftidp 60177/tcp # FIDONET EMSI over telnet
fido 60179/tcp # FIDONET EMSI over TCP
fido 60179/udp # chat server

There is NO inedt.conf or xinedt.conf file/s in /etc.


In both cases I can poll out from 2:25/21 to 2:250/1 so outbound works but

There is NO xinetd or inetd installed but I have just installed xinetd and created /etc/xinetd.d/mbsebbs from the content of SETUP.sh

Waiting for reboot to see if that works....

That fixes it - it now accepts a poll from 2:250/1

Thanks for your help just needed that extra package that Debian does not install by default.



Vincent

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//Hello Vincent,//

on *4/25/2022* at *13:18:44* You wrote in area *MBSE*
to *Louis Northmore* about *"Changing the Standard port number used"*.

[snip]

Waiting for reboot to see if that works....

That fixes it - it now accepts a poll from 2:250/1

Thanks for your help just needed that extra package that Debian does not install by default.

Nice. Glad you managed to figure it all out.

Louis
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