Kévin

Using HAProxy I managed to work out how to limit one connection per IP address to the BBS' telnet server. Now you can have the full experience of one phone line, one call, one connection (unless you use the ftelnet embed on the site, I’m not a monster)

Today I woke up and chose violence. Anyways, you can now telnet to bbs.toronto.mmn.on.ca. HAProxy on an external VPS (I might move this on to Frans)

Tomorrow I want to try something crazy. Isolating my servers to their own network on a VPN, explore how CloudFlare tunnels work (I know), and see if I can switch over the BBS to run properly behind that setup. I don’t fully need to expose telnet, that’s what ftelnet is for

Last night I had a power blip, not enough to throw everything offline but just enough to restart the BBS machine it seems

The BBS Xchange banners stopped working, so I used the Internet Archive to locate a suitable replacement for my site’s banner area

I’m having a weird issue with posting to usenet, I’m not sure if this is a Leafnode thing (althought it is having some problems too) or a Wildcat! problem. I repointed the BBS to my ISP’s NNTP service so I lost access to some of the weirder newsgroups

If you were wondering after the last post when I say the BBS has been sucking electric from the wall for a very long time, let me introduce you to how I setup HTTP redirections on mmn.on.ca

Hmmm, I want to repoint mmn.on.ca over to the BBS server, but the problem is doing that will break a lot of things

BBS server is now called winserver which is a success, but what isn’t a success is that this renaming broke the modem for some reason and it won’t come back 🫡

ARGH I’m having that fucking modem port not opening problem with the BBS again, it took months last time for the modem to vibe again

Very not great that the BBS lost all knowledge of the usenet server it is supposed to connect to

Also, yes the BBS is still down. I’ve not got around to dealing with it between cutting the power, doing insurance shit, and having a mental breakdown.

Somebody is desperately trying to connect to the BBS by phone and honestly my internet is next level fucked right now making that a challenge

How I vision this - redirect oh.mg to a hosted website (rather than self hosting the WWW), om.gay becomes the gemini site, gopher / BBS / etc stays where it is. Awful branding but it works.

Working on the BBS today, and also starting to mirror out my journal to FTP / the BBS file area

I’ve done it, well most of it, the BBS' domain has been changed to free.mg and next step is to get the static site hosting working (gotta do a ftp server) and kiln to run on a crontab

I had to shutdown the BBS server for about 15 minutes, something has started to seize a connection with the modem again

I’ve got to do some work on the BBS over the weekend, some of the mail areas are acting up probably riddled with file locks too. I’ve also got to reset the domain as well from bbs.ec to ix.oh.mg or maybe bbs.oh.mg, not decided

In the sea of bad news, there is good. When I setup the BBS machine in the new flat, the modem started to respond again, if the internet comes back then dial-up service can resume

BBS Offline due to internet feckup - OH.MG

I’m having a little play with hosting static sites for my bbs users, but using only gemini content, a site generator, and FTP. Not really sure how I’m going to do it, but I am.

I’ve also been playing with monitisation with Coil, if I can figure out how to hide my BBS’s web front end behind a Coil paywall I would consider opening it back up to the outside web. The amount of money raked in is still pretty small, but it would limit the server to genuine users if anything. Plus it helps a little towards the management of the web server, which is the most time intensive part of running a BBS

I totes need to work on my BBS having invested a lot of time with postfix getting email running

Redoin' the BBS Login Screen - Awful ANSI screen ahoy

The File Area / FTP is b0rk3d - The joys of technology #bbs #bbsing #files