Re: Telent Spam and virtual Machines
By: Eastside75 to Digital Man on Fri Nov 18 2022 04:59 am
> I am running the Synch on a windows 7 32 bit VM using virtual Box on a
> windows 11 system.
> The IP of the VM uses a 10.* IP Mask while the host system uses 192.*
> I have port 23 forwarded in the Virtual Box software from the 10. to the 192.
> I am able to reach the BBS both locally and using the dyndns however the
> board is getting spammed with logon attempts which I know is well documented.
> I have increased the MAXCONCURRENT line in sbbs.cfg to 2 but this caused
> another issue I did not think about at first.
> All traffic is showing orignating from the 10. IP Mask becuase of the port
> forward to the VM. No logs show outside IP addresses. This limits even me
> logging in becuase my attempt shows from the same IP address as the scans.
> I am new to working with VM's so maybe it is something I am missing. Any
> insight into this?
You're not going to be able to use any IP or hostname-based filtering or
throttling on the BBS side with such a configuration. If you want to stick with
that configuration, then you'll need to do any IP filtering/throttling in the
host (not the guest) OS.
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