Subj : Re: the nothing to hide a
To : Nightfox
From : Mewcenary
Date : Mon Feb 28 2022 07:28 am
Re: Re: the nothing to hide a
By: Nightfox to Vk3jed on Sun Feb 27 2022 10:25 pm
Ni> You have all your ports exposed publicly to the internet? Or perhaps there's an alternative to NAT that I'm not aware of..?
Ni> I thought pretty much everyone with internet at home would be using a router, and I thought NAT a standard feature of a router
Ni> for some level of protection.
Numerous BBS systems are run directly with public IPs now via cloud solutions.
Also, although rare, some broadband providers allow a _range_ of public IPs to be allocated to consumers, so it's possible to dedicate one of these to a BBS host.
Synchronet doesn't come security hardened out of the box (I'd argue it should, maybe I should submit a pull request on this :-) ), but there is an article on Hardening on the Wiki.
