Re: Synchronet Question
By: MRO to The Godfather on Sun May 24 2026 05:57 pm

that is a 3rd party addon. you can use one of theirs or make your own.
i have a bot check that actually blacklists you before you pass it. when you pass, you are white listed.

That is more of what I'm looking for, as well as for nostalgic purposes. I'll give it a go making one .. thanks.

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Re: Synchronet Question
By: The Godfather to MRO on Mon May 25 2026 05:48 am

Re: Synchronet Question
By: MRO to The Godfather on Sun May 24 2026 05:57 pm

that is a 3rd party addon. you can use one of theirs or make your
own. i have a bot check that actually blacklists you before you pass
it. when you pass, you are white listed.

That is more of what I'm looking for, as well as for nostalgic
purposes. I'll give it a go making one .. thanks.

if you do it the way i do it, it blocks bots that sit on the node and and
drop off. it really gets everything.

regardless, if you are on the internet, you will get thousands of attacks.
you can't really do much, there's always more.


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Re: Synchronet Question
By: MRO to The Godfather on Mon May 25 2026 05:43 am

if you do it the way i do it, it blocks bots that sit on the node and and drop off. it really gets everything.
regardless, if you are on the internet, you will get thousands of attacks. you can't really do much, there's always more.

With my Mystic and WWIV BBS's I chose a higher port number for telnet and also used the "[ESC]" fake mailer; both collectively seem to help. I've done the same with a higher port number for my Synchronet BBS and it seems to be working on and so far without needing the fake mailer prompt, however I would like to eventually add it for other reasons. When I used the standard port 23 I got attacked by scanners so frequently it would slow my telnet connection down for users / me.

I'll look into what you've done and see if I can't replicate it later. For now I'm beating my head against a wall trying to get DOSEMU2 working, I keep getting a file not found error .. I love tinkering with new BBS stuff, especially Synchronet, but hate messing with initial door setups.

Did you write yours in .js as an add to login.js?

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