Subj : Getting the telnet port number
To   : Ree
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jan 20 2011 06:53 pm

  Re: Getting the telnet port number
  By: Ree to All on Wed Jan 19 2011 10:14 am

 > Hey, I'm working on a WebSocket to telnet re-director for Synchronet, and
 > have a few questions:
 >
 > 1) Is there a property/method I can use to determine what port the telnet
 > server is running on?  Currently I've hardcoded to connect to
 > system.local_host_name on port 23, but ideally I'd like the port number to
 > come from a variable like the host name does

Try server.socket.local_port.

 > 2) Will there be a problem with possibly having multiple connections from
 > the same IP address?  For example 5 different people could all be
 > connecting via a WebSocket client, and so the WebSocket server will see 5
 > unique IP addresses, but then the Telnet server will see 5 connections from
 > 127.0.0.1.  If if's possible that some systems have a "only 1 connection
 > per IP" rule in place, that'd be problematic, but I don't know if that's an
 > option, or commonly enforced if it is.

No, that should not be a problem.

 > 3) How do I get the service included in the official Synchronet release
 > archives (hopefully enabled by default, but even if it's disabled but
 > included that would be great too)?  Or do I just distribute on my own site
 > and hope people find it?

You can send me the file(s) and I can commit them to CVS for you if you wish.
If you think you might be performing continual improvements/updates, I can give
you CVS access to commit changes yourself if you wish.

                                            digital man

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