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To: Dumas Walker
Re: Re: letsyncrypt issue
By: Dumas Walker to FUSION on Sun Feb 15 2026 10:21 am

And, of course, the irc is broken, too:

Looking up irc.synchro.net

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* * Subject: /CN=endofthelinebbs.com

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this will never work because the hosts don't match

I noticed that but that is what happend when I plugged irc.synchro.net into hexchat in the server name field and told it to connect. I did *not* put *any* info in there for endofthelinebbs.com.

irc.synchro.net is a rotating hostname, it points to *all* of the IRC servers (and there's a lot of them). That can be seen using tools like nslookup, host, dig, etc.:

Name: irc.synchro.net
Addresses: 2600:6c88:8c40:5b:f1d0:1:103:705
2604:880:52:866:f1d0:1:124:5016
2001:19f0:6000:94c9::68:234
2001:19f0:6000:94c9::81:241
71.95.196.34
51.75.174.224
158.220.122.223
192.138.210.158
45.32.81.241
138.197.129.1
108.242.55.251
203.191.174.253
59.167.142.49
45.32.68.234

I can only assume that came from the host end as I only saw that response the one time it connected. The other few times, when it got other errors
or timed-out, that erroneous address didn't show up.

Simple turn off TLS in the IRC client and it'll use TCP port 6667 (didn't I already explani this?) and work. Or heck, just use the IRC option from the chat menu on your own BBS!
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To: Dumas Walker
Hey Dumas!

On Sun, Feb 15 2026 09:21:44 -0600, you wrote:

I noticed that but that is what happend when I plugged
irc.synchro.net into hexchat in the server name field and told it to
connect. I did *not* put *any* info in there for
endofthelinebbs.com.

FYI, in hexchat you need to type "/server -insecure irc.synchro.net" in order to connect to port 6667, otherwise it will (by default) try the TLS port. If you setup the connection in the server list, and specify the port, it will also connect just fine.

Regards,
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To: DIGITAL MAN

I can only assume that came from the host end as I only saw that response the one time it connected. The other few times, when it got other errors or timed-out, that erroneous address didn't show up.

Simple turn off TLS in the IRC client and it'll use TCP port 6667 (didn't I already explani this?) and work. Or heck, just use the IRC option from the cha
menu on your own BBS!

Yes, you explained it in a message that I read after reading and responding
to this one. ;)


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To: Digital Man
Re: Re: letsyncrypt issue
By: Digital Man to Dumas Walker on Sun Feb 15 2026 14:57:24

I noticed that but that is what happend when I plugged irc.synchro.net into hexchat in the server name field and told it to connect. I did *not* put *any* info in there for endofthelinebbs.com.

irc.synchro.net is a rotating hostname, it points to *all* of the IRC servers (and there's a lot of them). That can be seen using tools like nslookup, host, dig, etc.:

If Dumas wishes to use secure IRC then he's going to need to pick a server rather than relying on the irc.synchro.net alias since, as he discovered, it's not likely to work.

irc.endofthelinebbs.com is a reliable server than can be used for secure connections on port 6697.

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To: Dumas Walker
Re: Re: letsyncrypt issue
By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Sat Feb 14 2026 09:28 am

Do you remember when you ranted about facebook? File this under the same BS. If it was my project and a contributor decided they didn't want to bother following along in the BBS support echo... you know, for a BBS software project... they'd be off the project.

So I'm fired? That should improve things around here.
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To: Deuce
Re: Re: letsyncrypt issue
By: Deuce to Dumas Walker on Tue Feb 24 2026 02:38 pm

Re: Re: letsyncrypt issue By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Sat Feb
14 2026 09:28 am

Do you remember when you ranted about facebook? File this under the
same BS. If it was my project and a contributor decided they didn't
want to bother following along in the BBS support echo... you know,
for a BBS software project... they'd be off the project.

So I'm fired? That should improve things around here.

Well, I heard you do break more than you fix.


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