Subj : bbs install help
To : Mrsteve
From : Umbra Mortis
Date : Wed Aug 27 2025 12:14 pm
Re: bbs install help
By: Digital Man to Mrsteve on Sun Jun 15 2025 08:28 pm
> Re: bbs install help
> By: Mrsteve to Digital Man on Sun Jun 15 2025 06:09 pm
>
> > Re: bbs install help
> > By: Digital Man to Mrsteve on Sat Jun 14 2025 12:35 am
> >
> > > Re: bbs install help
> > > By: Mrsteve to Digital Man on Fri Jun 13 2025 07:04 pm
> > Will do ***
> > Also having this router problem where 127.0.0.1 23 wont telnet into
> > bbs.
> > I got WWIV to WFC wait for call. But, I rather put up Your bbs.
> > got port forwarded a bit ago, but not connecting to internal wwiv.
> > Would like a cloudflaire or dyndns cloud host forward for the telnet.
> Sure. Again, this is the wrong message area for Synchronet support:
>
https://wiki.synchro.net/howto:support
Not sure who wrote the 127.0.0.1 IP address (localhost) up there, but I suspect it might be MrSteve. If so, this is a networking issue that is not related to your router and nothing that Cloudflare or DynDNS could help you with.
If you're not familiar with IP Networking, you might want to start by looking into that a little further by googling "localhost" or "127.0.0.1".
Briefly though, the localhost address refers to the internal only IP address of the host machine itself. As an example, to connect to your BBS running in a virtual machine on your laptop (as an example), you would have to be trying to telnet to your virtual machine BBS, from your virtual machine BBS client
virtual machine, and it would need to be running/listening on port 23 (as per your example anyway).
I hope that little primer is helpful, to whomever referenced it in the message above.
BTW... nice documentation in the howto:support wiki article Digital Man!
Thanks!
<-- Hunt
