Re: Re: syncterm bbs port discovery
By: Tracker1 to fusion on Thu Jul 07 2022 03:34 pm
> On 7/6/22 22:55, fusion wrote:
>
> > Keep having this idea pop in my head.. maybe a solution in search of
> > a problem.. DNS servers often have text strings with all sorts of
> > stuff.. spf for ips allowed to send mail on behalf of a domain, domain
> > ownership verfification.. yadda yadda
>
> > Could perhaps throw one in there like BBS=2323 or something so
> > syncterm can find nonstandard ports on it's own.
>
>
> You could create an SRV record...
>
> _telnet._tcp.foo.com 86400 IN SRV 10 5 2323 host.foo.com
>
> https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/dns-srv-record/
>
> However, it's on the client to actually support this... Might be
> interesting if web browsers supported this as well, to work around port
> blocking restrictions without having to specify a given port.
>
> Also, an interesting thing to possibly add to a dyndns service/host for
> BBS usage.
>
> DM?
Yeah, wouldn't be too hard to to the dyndns service. I just don't know of any BB
S clients that would make use of it (yet).
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