Subj : Local host shows as new sign up
To   : echicken
From : Rixter
Date : Wed Aug 07 2024 04:23 am

>   Re: Local host shows as new sign up
>   By: Rixter to All on Tue Aug 06 2024 20:46:05

> Your BBS website (if it has one - I couldn't get yours to load) is the most
> likely source.

> A typical webv4 setup includes fTelnet configured to connect to your telnet
> server through a locally-hosted proxy service. From the telnet server's
> perspective, the connection comes from localhost.

> Less common but possible is you put your BBS website behind a locally hosted
> reverse proxy, and these users are signing up via the web registration form
> if enabled. Similar scenario as above, but different protocol.

> If it's not either of these ... I dunno, maybe there's a squatter living in
> your attic and they sneak down when you're in bed and sit down in front of
> your server and telnet into the server from the server and create accounts
> for fun and then they pop into your kitchen and help themselves to a few
> snacks from the fridge before heading back up to the attic, careful not to
> knock over their growing stash of piss jars while they settle back in,
> because you gotta have piss jars, that's just part of attic life, you might
> be stuck up there for a while and when you gotta go you gotta go, but then
> you always forget to bring the jars back down for disposal and so the stack
> just keeps growing and growing. I mean it's probably not that but maybe.

> echicken    
> electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com
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>  ¨ Synchronet ¨ electronic chicken bbs - bbs.electronicchicken.com


My web page is on port 8080 and 23 new users have used it for sign up or
browsing. The connection to the imap for 2 1/2 days now is fascinating. What do
they do with all that connection time. Lol

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