On 20 Dec 2025, Shurato said the following...

Does anyone have mbbsemu set up on one system, with their bbs on another and still be able to connect? Through the internal network. My OPNSense firewall shouldn't be involved. Windows could be, but I've got rules
for the app (public and private) and the ports inbound (6513-6518). I
can only connect internally if it's from and to IP address specified in the config (eg. 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.8). I can't connect from 192.168.0.11 to 192.168.0.8 even if the config has that IP specified.
I'm not responding to Gamgee, I'm responding to the thread. So, please quit taking this personally.

The Rlogin.RemoteIP line is the IP you want to accept connections FROM. So you wouldn't use the local IP of the machine it's hosted on, which is what I'm assuming is 192.168.0.8 is, unless you only wanted connections from that IP, which is why I think you're only getting connections accepted from that machine as near as I can tell from what you're trying to say. I dunno, it's a little hard to parse it all. I'd have to go through this thread again just to see if that's what you're saying.

Just in case you don't already know, if you make a change to the appsettings.json file for the IP line you'd need to restart MBBSEmu for changes to take effect. I know that's obvious, but I see a lot of people that don't know you generally need to restart a program after making changes to a settings file.

I've got it working no problem for DoorParty. I have it running in a different VM than DoorParty on a separate IP with the Rlogin.RemoteIP line set to the DoorParty VM's IP, and it works fine. No firewall rules or anything needed adjusting.

Lemme go through the thread again and I'll edit this message before sending it out just to make sure.

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* In a message originally to Shurato, Accession said:

Hey Shurato!

On Sat, 20 Dec 2025 17:49:00 , you wrote:

I know, but it could also be server related. That's why I need to know if anyone has this specific setup working. Since you don't, I was

never

asking you for help.

I'm willing to bet nobody has the exact same setup as you.

Does anyone have mbbsemu set up on one system, with their bbs on

another

and still be able to connect? Through the internal network. My
OPNSense firewall shouldn't be involved. Windows could be, but I've

got

rules for the app (public and private) and the ports inbound
(6513-6518). I can only connect internally if it's from and to IP address specified in the config (eg. 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.8). I

can't

connect from 192.168.0.11 to 192.168.0.8 even if the config has that IP specified. I'm not responding to Gamgee, I'm responding to the thread. So, please quit taking this personally.

No. I don't have any of this setup, but to me what it sounds like is that you probably shouldn't be using '127.0.0.1' or '192.168.0.8' in your configuration at all, as those are local addresses inside of your LAN.

I don't know what the config looks like, but you should probably be using something like '0.0.0.0' for IPv4, or "::" for IPv6. Again, I'm not sure what your config looks like, but maybe even leaving those options blank would do the trick, at least better than using local IP addresses.

I've tried 0.0.0.0, that doesn't seem to have been accounted for by the developers. I can't imagine they didn't consider their server wouldn't be accessed from the outside... Thanks for trying. I moved it back to the bbs system for now.

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* In a message originally to Shurato, maskreet said:

On 20 Dec 2025, Shurato said the following...

Does anyone have mbbsemu set up on one system, with their bbs on

another

and still be able to connect? Through the internal network. My

OPNSense

firewall shouldn't be involved. Windows could be, but I've got rules for the app (public and private) and the ports inbound (6513-6518).

I

can only connect internally if it's from and to IP address specified

in

the config (eg. 127.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.8). I can't connect from 192.168.0.11 to 192.168.0.8 even if the config has that IP specified.

I'm not responding to Gamgee, I'm responding to the thread. So,

please

quit taking this personally.

The Rlogin.RemoteIP line is the IP you want to accept connections FROM. So you wouldn't use the local IP of the machine it's hosted on, which is what I'm assuming is 192.168.0.8 is, unless you only wanted connections from
that IP, which is why I think you're only getting connections accepted
from that machine as near as I can tell from what you're trying to say. I dunno, it's a little hard to parse it all. I'd have to go through this thread again just to see if that's what you're saying.

Thanks! I can fix that!

Just in case you don't already know, if you make a change to the appsettings.json file for the IP line you'd need to restart MBBSEmu for changes to take effect. I know that's obvious, but I see a lot of people that don't know you generally need to restart a program after making
changes to a settings file.

I've got it working no problem for DoorParty. I have it running in a different VM than DoorParty on a separate IP with the Rlogin.RemoteIP line set to the DoorParty VM's IP, and it works fine. No firewall rules or anything needed adjusting.

Lemme go through the thread again and I'll edit this message before
sending it out just to make sure.

Yep, you nailed it!

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El 19/12/25 a las 11:08, Shurato (21:2/148) escribió:

Can anyone connect to the server from an external machine?  telnet door tells
me that rlogin connections aren't being accepted if I try to connect
from any
ip other than the one running it.  I've got my firewall forwarding the ports,
I've got the windows firewall accepting public and private for mbbsemu.exe and the ports inbound.  I absolutely can't figure this out.  I tried discord,
but it's totally inaccessible.  I have an account and can't find the server unless I use the link on the mbbsemu page, which causes me to create an account that I already have...  I really don't like discord.  I can never find the channel or server that I need.  Hopefully someone on here can help...

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YEs i connect from sbbs to mbbsemu via rlogin

at my custom shell I have:

bbs.rlogin_gate('127.0.0.1:9510');

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El 19/12/25 a las 11:08, Shurato (21:2/148) escribió:

YEs i connect from sbbs to mbbsemu via rlogin

at my custom shell I have:

bbs.rlogin_gate('127.0.0.1:9510');

Yeah, I figured out that I had to specify the from address being rlogin'd
from in the config. It's been working for a while now!

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