Happy Friday.

Today I decided to finally upgrade my Door Game Server and Synchronet BBS from 3.19 to 3.20.

I started with the game server which is running Win 7 32bit. Update went smooth as butter.

I then updated my Synchronet BBS Win 11 64bit. The update again went smooth without any errors during the update.

I started SBBS and logged in to start testing everything. Everything was working great until I tried to RLOGIN to my Door Game Server.

I got "!ERROR -1 (49) binding to socket rlogin.js: Failed to connect to remote host

I decided to try telneting to Vert. I got "!ERROR -1 (49) binding to socket telgate.js: Failed to connect to remote host

I shut down SBBS and rebooted my server and tried again. Same errors while trying RLOGIN and TELNET outbound from the BBS. I chatted with a few other Synchronet Sysops running 3.2, and we compared settings, nothing worked to resolve the issue on my end.

I rolled back to 3.19 and I am able to RLOGIN and TELNET outbound from Synchronet now.

(I did try outbound on my game server just for S&G and it worked fine)

Any help/ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you,

StingRay (Jerry)

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Re: Synchronet 3.19 to 3.20D
By: StingRay to All on Fri Jun 13 2025 08:05 pm

Happy Friday.

Today I decided to finally upgrade my Door Game Server and Synchronet BBS from 3.19 to 3.20.

I started with the game server which is running Win 7 32bit. Update went smooth as butter.

I then updated my Synchronet BBS Win 11 64bit. The update again went smooth without any errors during the update.

I started SBBS and logged in to start testing everything. Everything was working great until I tried to RLOGIN to my Door Game Server.

I got "!ERROR -1 (49) binding to socket rlogin.js: Failed to connect to remote host

I decided to try telneting to Vert. I got "!ERROR -1 (49) binding to socket telgate.js: Failed to connect to remote host

I shut down SBBS and rebooted my server and tried again. Same errors while trying RLOGIN and TELNET outbound from the BBS. I chatted with a few other Synchronet Sysops running 3.2, and we compared settings, nothing worked to resolve the issue on my end.

I rolled back to 3.19 and I am able to RLOGIN and TELNET outbound from Synchronet now.

(I did try outbound on my game server just for S&G and it worked fine)

Any help/ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

What do you have set for OutboundInterface in your ctrl/sbbs.ini file?
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Re: Synchronet 3.19 to 3.20D
By: Digital Man to StingRay on Fri Jun 13 2025 05:58 pm

I got "!ERROR -1 (49) binding to socket rlogin.js: Failed to connect to remote host

I decided to try telneting to Vert. I got "!ERROR -1 (49) binding to socket telgate.js: Failed to connect to remote host

I shut down SBBS and rebooted my server and tried again. Same errors
while trying RLOGIN and TELNET outbound from the BBS. I chatted with a
few other Synchronet Sysops running 3.2, and we compared settings,
nothing worked to resolve the issue on my end.

I rolled back to 3.19 and I am able to RLOGIN and TELNET outbound from Synchronet now.

(I did try outbound on my game server just for S&G and it worked fine)

Any help/ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

What do you have set for OutboundInterface in your ctrl/sbbs.ini file?

digital man (rob)

I had 0.0.0.0 set for outbound. I think I am going to setup another VM and copy my SBBS over on a test VM and try the update again. I panicked and rolled it back to 3.19.

StingRay (Jerry)
StingRay

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mystic-anet.online

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Re: Synchronet 3.19 to 3.20D
By: StingRay to Digital Man on Sat Jun 14 2025 04:21 pm

Re: Synchronet 3.19 to 3.20D
By: Digital Man to StingRay on Fri Jun 13 2025 05:58 pm

I got "!ERROR -1 (49) binding to socket rlogin.js: Failed to connect to remote host

I decided to try telneting to Vert. I got "!ERROR -1 (49) binding to socket telgate.js: Failed to connect to remote host

I shut down SBBS and rebooted my server and tried again. Same errors while trying RLOGIN and TELNET outbound from the BBS. I chatted with a few other Synchronet Sysops running 3.2, and we compared settings, nothing worked to resolve the issue on my end.

I rolled back to 3.19 and I am able to RLOGIN and TELNET outbound from Synchronet now.

(I did try outbound on my game server just for S&G and it worked fine)

Any help/ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

What do you have set for OutboundInterface in your ctrl/sbbs.ini file?

digital man (rob)

I had 0.0.0.0 set for outbound.

That's also the default. Normally, that would work fine.
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Re: Synchronet 3.19 to 3.20D
By: Digital Man to StingRay on Sat Jun 14 2025 11:51 pm

I rolled back to 3.19 and I am able to RLOGIN and TELNET outbound
from Synchronet now.

(I did try outbound on my game server just for S&G and it worked
fine)

Any help/ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

What do you have set for OutboundInterface in your ctrl/sbbs.ini file?

digital man (rob)

I had 0.0.0.0 set for outbound.

That's also the default. Normally, that would work fine.
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digital man (rob)

That is what my game server outbbound is set to (on another server - 0.0.0.0) and it works just fine after the update.

After I clone my VM of my SBBS and try the update again, I will let you know if I get the same error or not.

Thank you for responding so quickly, DM!!

-StingRay (Jerry)
StingRay

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Re: Synchronet 3.19 to 3.20D
By: StingRay to Digital Man on Sun Jun 15 2025 08:24 am

Re: Synchronet 3.19 to 3.20D
By: Digital Man to StingRay on Sat Jun 14 2025 11:51 pm

I rolled back to 3.19 and I am able to RLOGIN and TELNET outbound from
Synchronet now.

(I did try outbound on my game server just for S&G and it worked fine)

Any help/ideas/thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

What do you have set for OutboundInterface in your ctrl/sbbs.ini file?

digital man (rob)

I had 0.0.0.0 set for outbound.

That's also the default. Normally, that would work fine. --
digital man (rob)

That is what my game server outbbound is set to (on another server - 0.0.0.0) and it works just fine after the update.

After I clone my VM of my SBBS and try the update again, I will let you know if I get the same error or not.

Thank you for responding so quickly, DM!!

I made the clone and did the 3.19 to 3.20 update. Tested and rlogin and telnet outbound worked. I went ahead and tried the update again on my main BBS and it worked perfectly this time.

I did not change anything and cannot explain why, but rlogin and telnet outbound work fine now.

Just wanted to drop an update. Thanks again, DM!

-StingRay (Jerry)


StingRay

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mystic-anet.online

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