Subj : Getting the telnet port number
To : Ree
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jan 20 2011 06:53 pm
Re: Getting the telnet port number
By: Ree to All on Wed Jan 19 2011 10:14 am
> Hey, I'm working on a WebSocket to telnet re-director for Synchronet, and
> have a few questions:
>
> 1) Is there a property/method I can use to determine what port the telnet
> server is running on? Currently I've hardcoded to connect to
> system.local_host_name on port 23, but ideally I'd like the port number to
> come from a variable like the host name does
Try server.socket.local_port.
> 2) Will there be a problem with possibly having multiple connections from
> the same IP address? For example 5 different people could all be
> connecting via a WebSocket client, and so the WebSocket server will see 5
> unique IP addresses, but then the Telnet server will see 5 connections from
> 127.0.0.1. If if's possible that some systems have a "only 1 connection
> per IP" rule in place, that'd be problematic, but I don't know if that's an
> option, or commonly enforced if it is.
No, that should not be a problem.
> 3) How do I get the service included in the official Synchronet release
> archives (hopefully enabled by default, but even if it's disabled but
> included that would be great too)? Or do I just distribute on my own site
> and hope people find it?
You can send me the file(s) and I can commit them to CVS for you if you wish.
If you think you might be performing continual improvements/updates, I can give
you CVS access to commit changes yourself if you wish.
digital man
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