I have recently put my Excelsior! BBS back online and am trying to get Fidonet going with it again thru the internet. The bbs is working
fine with telnetd.device and accepting calls on port 6400. I am
trying to get amibinkd set up to receive mail. I can poll my boss
with it to send and pick up netmail and echomail but the boss has not
been able to make contact with my BBS. I know amibinkd works through
port 24554 and I have this port open on my router as i do port 6400
for calls to the BBS.
Is this all I need to do besides running amibinkd as a server?
I'm not sure if there is some other place I need to open the port in
the software?
Does anyone have experience using the Amiga version? Any help would be gratly greatly appreciated!
Tim
CIA Amiga BBS
ciaamigabbs.dynu.net:6400
Yes that is all you need to do. Open 24554 (TCP) in your firewall/router/whatever and point it with a port forward to your
Amiga and the same port.
Beware, however - Amibinkd will crash regurarely and take the entire system with it no matter how big of a stack you give it.
Amibinkd is as most of us know a hack - it's a rewrite of Binkd which never got done. The source was never published.
I guess I'm going to give up on amibinkd.
I can poll with it and receive netmail and echomail ok but every timesomeone tries to connect to my
BBS via Fido the machine resets itself.
The port is open and the bbs machine
never reset until i started running amibinkd as a server.
Does anyone have a working example trapdoor.cfg file that shows how to use telnetd.device instead of a modem.
Feel free to do it! :)
You can make Amibinkd stay stable for a few days if you give it enough stack but it will crash eventually.
I have a trapdoor.cfg but I haven't started to mess around with telnetd.device yet. I will soon, though.
You can make Amibinkd stay stable for a few days if you give it enough stack but it will crash eventually.
I have a trapdoor.cfg but I haven't started to mess around with telnetd.devi yet. I will soon, though.
I now believe it is a Y2K problem with the BBS software itself. Only in Echomail areas. When I post an outgoing echomail, the date shows up as
Does anyone have any idea how to get in touch with the owners of Excelsior? I have tried every link and email address I could find with
On 07/12/18, Tim Grooms said the following...
I now believe it is a Y2K problem with the BBS software itself. Only i Echomail areas. When I post an outgoing echomail, the date shows up as
Does anyone have any idea how to get in touch with the owners of Excelsior? I have tried every link and email address I could find with
Hi Tim, I was talking to another sysOp of a E! board and he too feels his issues with the system are Y2K issues.. If he doesn't log on to the BBS afte reboot it locks up and just sits there when someone dials in. He also mentioned some other things too. No one seems to be able to get in touch wit anyone related to the programming of E! I would love to see a update to fix some of the bugs found I am in the process of adding a second BBS to my system and that BBS will be an E! board as I ran one back in the 90's but if things don't work right easily I will just spend the $$$ and buy the CNet Pr board and not have any issues with it..
Hi Tim, I was talking to another sysOp of a E! board and he too feels h issues with the system are Y2K issues.. If he doesn't log on to the BBS
reboot it locks up and just sits there when someone dials in. He also
Hi Al,
I think that Sysop of the E! board you were talking to is me ha! I run CIA Amiga BBS and have all the Excelsior! stuff I could find posted
there for others to download. Haven't been able to get in touch with
This never seemed to work with my emulated system. I am using CNet's FTNFTP and TOSS for now. CNet will get better with FTN in the future!
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