Re: Put your BBS back online with MagicJack?

[winston19842005 <bjjlyates@NOSPAMbellsouth.net>]

On 5/31/09 10:03 AM, in article J6wUl.18064$%54.5399@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com,
"Steven Lichter" <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote:

> Don wrote:
>> "Steven Lichter" <diespammers@ikillspammers.com> wrote in message
>> news:QLiUl.34311$ZP4.5146@nlpi067.nbdc.sbc.com...
>>> Terry Olsen wrote:
>>>> Has anyone ever thought of running their old BBS just like they did in
>>>> the heyday???  With actual Apple hardware, an analog modem, and a phone
>>>> line? Now that MagicJack has come into existence, $40 to purchase, and
>>>> $20 per year of service with free long distance, seems to me it would be
>>>> entirely possible to have a bunch of Apple II bbs's to call once again.
>>>> 
>>>> Sysops would not have to shell out a monthly payment for a 2nd phone line
>>>> and users wouldn't have to worry about long distance phone charges to
>>>> call. No-brainer, eh?
>>>> 
>>>> So would there be any interest?  Are there any sysops who would consider
>>>> running a BBS like this?  In the next month or so, I'll probably go buy a
>>>> MagicJack, put mine online, and see what happens.  Anyone else?
>>> 
>>> You would need to run the Magic Jack with a PC or Intel Mac, I would guess
>>> from there you could plug a modem into the phone jack then to your Apple.
>>> I have a Magic Jack, but I have never tried a modem on it. There might be
>>> problems since the system requires compression.  I know years ago when
>>> Sprint has PC Pursuit it required special drivers to allow the Apple BBS
>>> software t o run on it.
>>> 
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>> 
>> If you're going to end up using a PC in any case, there are a number of
>> freeware TELNET-to-RS232 programs around that will let users TELNET to your
>> BBS using your existing internet connection. This assumes, of course, that
>> you've got some sort of "always-on" connection.
>> 
>> I tired a couple of them several years back, but ended up going a different
>> route using software specific to the system I was/am running (TBBS system on
>> PC-DOS).  The only other issue you might have is your ISP blocking inbound
>> port 23 connections, but the software that I tried allowed you to select
>> other ports so you can work around that one.
>> 
>> I've just looked through my HD and I can't find any links to the stuff I
>> tried, but some enterprising Google-ing may come up with something.  I seem
>> to recall that the guy who had written it was using it to run a BBS on a
>> C64, but it worked fine with other modem-based BBS's.
> 
>> 
> 
> If  you are using DSL, then each time you boot your system tou will have
> a defferent IP address.  The  port problem as  you said can be worked
> around.

I used no-ip.com to resolve to whatever my current DNS is, this particular
one requiring software running on your end to update their database.

Then you can have a DNS-resolving name.

There are many such services out there. I've had some luck playing with it.