Hello Zone 3 SysOps, newbee here after ~34 years out of the BBS scene when things went Internet and got on that boat. Great to see the BBS scene still alive and with today's technology how good is it:

- No PSTN dialup costs everytime you poll
- Lot's of nodes without the need for PSTN lines, Modems and oh, the painful serial ports that had limited IRQ's and Addresses (remember that)
- Virtualisation technologies available now just make spinning up an OS a dream. not to mention the ability to take snapshots (using ProxMox here)
- Networking is certainlly more complex now with the Cyber threat's (several firewalls, IDP/IDS's, switches and routers); anyone want to Pentest my node?
- oodles of compute and storage capacity (I started out wih a 386/33, 16gb RAM, 320gb HDD and a 10-Base-T network connected to my OS/2 1.3 file server); I recall this was the ants pants at the time and rebuilding the OS and BBS (Maximus) when required was painful as OS/2 had ~30 1.44mb floppies and it was soooo slow - I remember pulling many all nighters just because I wanted to try a new OS etc and could not afford another PC as a test lab
- Improved O/S's (Started with QEMM and DESQView and remember "ALT" tabbing between my sessions, oh this was so cool and then migrated to OS/2 v2 when that was released as I could never really appreciate Windows 3.1 or NT back in the day)

Keen to hear from those of you who can relate and like to collaborate and share their geek experiences, my wife thinks I'm a little odd - I still search ebay for a nice old clean IBM PS/2! Have not found one yet in country.


Regards,

Nick.

Hello Tetrazocine!

17 Jul 22 12:31, you wrote to all:

lab - Improved O/S's (Started with QEMM and DESQView and remember
"ALT" tabbing between my sessions, oh this was so cool and then
migrated to OS/2 v2 when that was released as I could never really appreciate Windows 3.1 or NT back in the day)

My bbs was run on an Amiga. Then I moved to to a Intel pc, when got a offer that was too good to pass up. It did save the
Amiga for what I wanted to do, and the bbs just ran on Intel box.

Very much along the same lines. Started with Dos/Desqview/Qemm, then when IBM released OS/2 warp 3, moved there for a
long time (Last 1990's), then the uniux's (FreeBSD/Linux).

-*- Origin: Sent from d0p3 BBS (21:3/172)
SEEN-BY: 633/280 418
@PATH: 633/418 280

HUmm.. Path/seen by's have fido network addres, but origin has fsxnet.



Stephen


--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20220409
* Origin: Dragon's Lair BBS, Telnet: dragon.vk3heg.net (21:1/195)

Re: Hello all
By: Stephen Walsh to Tetrazocine on Sun Jul 17 2022 16:52:12

HUmm.. Path/seen by's have fido network addres, but origin has fsxnet.

Hmmm, see how this goes as I think I found the culprit (defaulting to the initial node I setup I suspect, not I have explicitly defined Fido node number).

NB.

Hello Tetrazocine!

17 Jul 22 20:08, you wrote to me:

@MSGID: 3.fidonet_net_633@21:3/172 27391586
@REPLY: 21:1/195 62d3b2a2
@PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Linux master/187f8f8aa Jun 25 2022 GCC 9.4.0
@TID: SBBSecho 3.15-Linux master/187f8f8aa Jun 25 2022 GCC 9.4.0
@BBSID: D0P3
@CHRS: ASCII 1
@NOTE: SlyEdit 1.79 (2022-06-21) (ICE style)
Re: Hello all
By: Stephen Walsh to Tetrazocine on Sun Jul 17 2022 16:52:12

HUmm.. Path/seen by's have fido network addres, but origin has
fsxnet.

Hmmm, see how this goes as I think I found the culprit (defaulting to
the initial node I setup I suspect, not I have explicitly defined Fido node number).

NB.
--- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
* Origin: (21:3/172)
SEEN-BY: 633/280 418
@PATH: 633/418 280

Nop.... %-(



Stephen


--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20220409
* Origin: Dragon's Lair BBS, Telnet: dragon.vk3heg.net (21:1/195)

Re: Hello all
By: Stephen Walsh to Tetrazocine on Sun Jul 17 2022 22:07:46

Nop.... %-(

Righto, 3rd time lucky.... think I have it nailed now.

NB.

Hello Tetrazocine!

18 Jul 22 17:52, you wrote to me:

@MSGID: 5.fidonet_net_633@3:633/418 273a475b
@REPLY: 21:1/195 62d3fbb4

That fsx net addres could just be a side affect of replying to the initail message.

Can you post a fresh new message, please to make sure.

Righto, 3rd time lucky.... think I have it nailed now.

-^- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
* Origin: (3:633/418)
SEEN-BY: 633/280 418
@PATH: 633/418 280

That's better.



Stephen


--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20220409
* Origin: Dragon's Lair BBS, Telnet: dragon.vk3heg.net (3:633/280)