Back from another burnout phase that was induced by Mystic problems on
the FTN hub. which have since been fixed. Toom me another several weeks to get myself ready to partake in the BBSs again. :)
Vk3jed wrote to All <=-
Back from another burnout phase that was induced by Mystic problems on
the FTN hub. which have since been fixed. Toom me another several
weeks to get myself ready to partake in the BBSs again. :)
I've also been sidetracked by some major ham radio projects, but along
the way I have gained a lot of Docker knowledge. :)
Also, I have a small, niche FTN I've been protoyping since last year.
And of course gOLD mINE still needs love.
On 07-26-22 19:52, esc wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Welcome back! I've also seen my BBS interest resurge, and I also was burned out due to some errors on my older board. Redoing everything
from scratch has been a fun challenge, though.
On 07-26-22 18:01, Blue White wrote to Vk3jed <=-
I've also been sidetracked by some major ham radio projects, but along
the way I have gained a lot of Docker knowledge. :)
Welcome back!
On 07-27-22 09:40, Spectre wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Welcome back, good to see you pop up again..
On 07-26-22 13:16, Alpha wrote to All <=-
ay think, because I *can* feel my energy and enthusiasm rising day by
day when it comes to BBSing. And I know what it's like to lose interest when things get overwhelming, whether it's BBS related... or
life-related. Ugh.
Anyway, welcome back ya'll and see you around the bbsverse!
I'd like to create an FTN for fun. A private one between my servers
only, not intended to be another public dead one. I just want to know I can do it, but I'm not sure how to get started, how to set up the hubs
I'd like to create an FTN for fun. A private one between my servers
only, not intended to be another public dead one.
I just want to know I can do it, but I'mnot sure how to get started,
how to set up the hubs
I'd like to create an FTN for fun. A private one between my servers only, intended to be another public dead one. I just want to know I can do it, b I'm not sure how to get started, how to set up the hubs
I'd like to create an FTN for fun. A private one between my servers
only, not intended to be another public dead one. I just want to know I can do it, but I'm not sure how to get started, how to set up the hubs
Mystic is awesome in that it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you, making it easier to learn some of the fundamentals of ftns.
An easy way to learn some of the hub basics is to setup a personal mail hub. E.g.: have all your network echomail come to a private instance (Mystic and Synchronet actually work well for this), then set up your BBS(s) as downlink point addersses. If you have multiple BBSs (like me) it makes adding the echomail networks much easier.
Mesing around with nodelist creators like makenl is helpful too.
I've been meaning to document this process for a while, maybe this will motivate me.
I agree that Mystic is an amazing piece of software. It blows my mind
how simple a lot of the otherwise exhaustive tasks are. g00r00 is an amazing programmer.
I'd like to create an FTN for fun. A private one between my servers only, not intended to be another public dead one. I just want to know I can do it, but I'm not sure how to get started, how to set up the hubs
Especially when you're following Avon's videos. When I was first
getting back into the BBS scene I followed along with those and was up
& going in an afternoon. I thought to myself "well that was way too easy!".
I thought part of being a sysop was being sadomasochistic enjoying the pain and suffering of trying to get everything to work. At least
that's how it was for me trying to get Telegard talking to FastEcho, AllFix & FrontDoor back in the day.
I've found hpt to just frustrating enough to be considered sadomasochism but not so much as to drive me to alcoholism... yet. ;)
I'd like to create an FTN for fun. A private one between my serversI just did this about 2 weeks ago with CiberNET between my two Mystic
only, not intended to be another public dead one. I just want to know I can do it, but I'm not sure how to get started, how to set up the hubs
If you find any decent info I wouldn't want to set one up but would love to know how. I like the technology and would like to learn more about
it.
Share what you find please.
I just went through this exercise creating "fakenet" to learn more about hpt.
I setup an hpt "hub" using a zone I'm not using anywhere else and then
two mystic installs as nodes more to learn about setting up hpt without hammering a load of pings and test messages to any real networks.
I just want to know I can do it, but I'mnot sure how to get started, how to set up the hubs
You can do the same with two or more Mystic installs if you felt so inclined.
Just choose a zone you're not using anywhere else, say 905 for example
and then set that up, as 905:1/100 for example. Then setup one or two other Mystic installs as 905:1/101 & /102, set them up as nodes on the /100 hub and you're in business.
From there you can create an echomail area on the hub and either
manually connect the nodes or send an areafix netmail from the nodes to the hub to connect them. From there send some test messages to the
echo and if you set everything up correctly the node should send it to the hub and the hub will forward it to the other node. You can also experiment with netmail routing and sending pings from node to node.
Mystic is awesome in that it does a lot of the heavy lifting for you, making it easier to learn some of the fundamentals of ftns.
Jay
Warpslide wrote to esc <=-
I thought part of being a sysop was being sadomasochistic enjoying the pain and suffering of trying to get everything to work. At least
that's how it was for me trying to get Telegard talking to FastEcho, AllFix & FrontDoor back in the day.
Thats the thing, I haven't found anything. I've found how to set
yourself up to an existing network, but not how you make a new one.
Then again, if that was common knowledge, we'd have everyone making
their own 'nets and abandoning them.
Thats the thing, I haven't found anything. I've found how to set yourself up to an existing network, but not how you make a new one.
Then again, if that was common knowledge, we'd have everyone making their own 'nets and abandoning them.
I don't think there is much point in creating a net today, aside fromQWK based networks seem more doable.
the exercise.
I don't think there is much point in creating a net today, aside from
the exercise.
QWK based networks seem more doable.
Oh, but when it all works -- glorious!
Then, it's time to switch platforms. :)
Back from another burnout phase that was induced by Mystic problems on
the FTN hub. which have since been fixed. Toom me another several weeks to get myself ready to partake in the BBSs again. :)
I've also been sidetracked by some major ham radio projects, but along
the way I have gained a lot of Docker knowledge. :)
ay think, because I *can* feel my energy and enthusiasm rising day by
day when it comes to BBSing. And I know what it's like to lose interest when things get overwhelming, whether it's BBS related... or
life-related. Ugh.
First up: a new board I'm hand-crafting around all thing 'retro' using retro systems. Well, older things anyway. A DOS-based BBS (Renegade!). It's been fun getting all the parts to work w/DOS -- telnet server, mailer, tosser, events, etc.
Also, I have a small, niche FTN I've been protoyping since last year.
And of course gOLD mINE still needs love.
Anyway, welcome back ya'll and see you around the bbsverse!
I don't think there is much point in creating a net today, aside from the exercise.QWK based networks seem more doable.
On 07-29-22 14:54, Avon wrote to Vk3jed <=-
On 26 Jul 2022 at 08:05p, Vk3jed pondered and said...
Back from another burnout phase that was induced by Mystic problems on
the FTN hub. which have since been fixed. Toom me another several weeks to get myself ready to partake in the BBSs again. :)
I've also been sidetracked by some major ham radio projects, but along
the way I have gained a lot of Docker knowledge. :)
welcome back Tony, I know this feeling also.
Been busy support parents with illnesses so a bit time poor but dipping in/out of BBS when time permits and keeping my time on BBS fun for me.
Glad you got some docker time. I confess I was quite taken with it when
I played with it. I feel like I need to start over with a new HDD for
all my linux stuff as bits were not working as I wanted and permissions kept foxing me... but for now I am leaving it all well alone :) less stress :)
On 07-28-22 13:27, Al wrote to Utopian Galt <=-
QWK networks are easier for the network admin. Nodes poll when they
choose and come and go as they please. There is nothing for the network admin to do once setup but to make sure his node/hub is connectable.
FTN is more widely supported but can be a lot of work for the hubs to
keep the nodelist up to date and weed out nodes that just vanish and
also adding new node who want in.
ay think, because I *can* feel my energy and enthusiasm rising day by
day when it comes to BBSing. And I know what it's like to lose
interest when
things get overwhelming, whether it's BBS related... or life-related.
Interesting. Perhaps I should give this a shot. So in other words, the
BBS that's actually listening and calling out for mail, occupying port
24554 or whatever it is, is a "shadow" instance that actually
communicates with the real BBSes behind the scenes. Is that a correct understanding?
That's correct! The hub/boss BBS uses your main node credentials to slurp up the network(s), and then you'd have additional Echomail Nodes for each of your downlinks, e.g. for my point: 21/4:158.1 for BBS 1, 21:4/158.2
for BBS 2, etc. Then you'd just add those nodes to the "Export To..." fields for each echo area in the Message Base Area.
| Sysop: | Gary Ailes |
|---|---|
| Location: | Pittsburgh, PA |
| Users: | 132 |
| Nodes: | 5 (0 / 5) |
| Uptime: | 67:08:09 |
| Calls: | 733 |
| Files: | 2,171 |
| Messages: | 81,303 |