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    From apam@21:3/197 to Mickey on Fri Dec 13 12:48:52 2024
    It doesn't matter. The script kiddies, as you call them, are just other servers pinging for open ports. They'll find you no matter which port
    you move it to.

    Except they're not looking for BBSes, most of those port scanners are
    looking for vulnerable services. It takes time to scan 65355 ports, so
    it's much quicker to only scan the ones you know the vulnerable services
    you are looking for are running on.

    Yes, I still get port scans on port 2323, I get a LOT less than on port
    23.

    I got almost none when using port 11892.

    Andrew

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  • From apam@21:3/197 to slacker on Fri Dec 13 16:02:06 2024
    That said, I'm sure the more your BBS host & port are out there on the internet and the more popular it becomes, the more bots that will find
    it and start trying stuff.

    Maybe, but I doubt in that case they would be bots - although I suppose
    with AI it might be a thing.. bots are really just looking for easy
    targets with known exploits. A BBS, while quiet possibly exploitable
    would require a bit of human interaction and fiddling to find the
    exploits.

    For things like smart TVs and routers that have exploits, they can scan
    them down drop their payload and move on through the address space. A BBS because of it's obscurity, not so much.

    Oh, and I am in no way saying BBSes are secure because of that obscurity,
    but rather less of a target to the kind of blanket searching bots. It
    comes down to time I guess, while you could be fiddling around with a BBS looking to break it, you could have already gained several unpactched
    routers..

    If your BBS does get quiet popular, then sure people might try to hack
    in, but that's a different senario i think

    Andrew

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  • From apam@21:3/197 to Digital Man on Sat Dec 14 14:26:52 2024
    You'll get a lot fewer *users* too. <shrug>

    Why? If people are savvy enough to connect to a BBS using telnet, surely
    they can change the port number in their client?

    I suppose it might be hard to remember the port between reading it and
    entering it into the terminal (sometimes my short term memory doesn't
    work to well), but that's not much different from remembering the
    hostname..

    Andrew

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  • From apam@21:3/197 to Digital Man on Sat Dec 14 15:23:38 2024
    It's another thing to know about and do correctly, another barrier to
    entry. Some users are savvy/capable, can figure things out on their
    own, many are not. That's my experience anyway.

    Fair enough.

    Andrew

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  • From apam@21:3/197 to Atreyu on Sat Dec 14 15:30:06 2024
    I've had my board on port 23 for 25+ years with no problems. On an XP
    box.

    I think it more becomes a problem when you're running on something like a commodore 64 or something. I don't know, I don't have a problem either.

    Andrew
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  • From Nick Mackechnie@21:1/142 to Alonzo on Tue Dec 17 09:45:00 2024
    Yeah, I ran a Searchlight board for several years and it was always
    referred to as SBBS. In fact I think the default file directory for the BBS
    files was named SBBS.

    Hey hey, the default directory structure for SL is SLBBS, I'm one of the few SLBBS's running today, been online since 1988 infact :-)

    Nick

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  • From Nick Mackechnie@21:1/142 to Alonzo on Sun Jan 5 17:00:00 2025
    What is the name of your board? Most likely, I used to call
    it back in the day. Mine was called The Lost City.

    Hiya Alonzo,

    It's called The Trashcan BBS, located in Christchurch, New Zealand.

    Nick.

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  • From apam@21:3/197 to Digital Man on Fri Dec 6 07:41:16 2024
    Cool. I don't see anything there that looks "better than SBBS's web
    stuff" (e.g. web.synchro.net), but beauty is in the eye of the
    beholder. --

    I read sbbs to be searchlight bbs in this instance.

    Andrew

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  • From apam@21:3/197 to Digital Man on Fri Dec 6 08:14:48 2024
    Oh, that didn't occur to me. I'm kind of used to "SBBS" sometimes (very rarely now) referring to SuperBBS, but I'd never seen Searchlight
    referred to as "SBBS". If that's the case, my bad. :-)

    I'm just guessing given the context, so might be wrong. I usually see
    SLBBS as a shortening of searchlight.

    Andrew


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