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What's involved with having a telnet server on the internet? Can I do it with normal cable access, or do I need a better / other feed. What I'm thinking about doing would not have more than 6 or 8 users logged in at once, and it would not matter if their speed was down in the 9600 range, in fact I'd like to lock it there. Can this be done?
Software recomendations?
Security Issues? I do not want users to have access to anything but one or maybe 2 applications, no exceptions.
Things I'm obviously not thinking about?
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Originally Posted by microbes
What's involved with having a telnet server on the internet? Can I do it with normal cable access, or do I need a better / other feed. What I'm thinking about doing would not have more than 6 or 8 users logged in at once, and it would not matter if their speed was down in the 9600 range, in fact I'd like to lock it there. Can this be done?
Software recomendations?
Security Issues? I do not want users to have access to anything but one or maybe 2 applications, no exceptions.
Things I'm obviously not thinking about?
Hmmm... not an easy question to answer..
First off, it is normally recommended that you turn off telnet access to any server that is accessible to the internet and use SSH instead.. But I assume you'd be using some type of doorway program that gives access to the specific program(s) you want the users to access?
It's kinda hard to address things without specific details.. but it might even get harder with those details.. lol
You should definitely have linux as your operating system.
Any high speed connection will work. (cable, DSL, etc.)
Static IP is best, but there are ways to use a dynamic IP also.. It would depend on your purpose.
Would these be the SAME 6-8 users all the time? Or is that just a total of '6-8 at a time' ?
-Jim
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What I have in mind is online gaming. Other people running the game I'm considering seem to all run them on telnet servers, but there may be a better way. The game is designed to be accessed by an ANSI terminal, so I'm thinking telnet is probably the way to go, but from what I've been able to figure out, security issues will be importaint. What is SSH?
6-8 users would be the max I would want on at one time, but I'm envisioning maybe 100 total users.
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Oh, and if it makes any difference, the very first thing the game does when you execute it is ask for a name and a password. Tradewars Ver. 3
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You shouldn't need a telnet server for that. The game should have some kind of remote control commands from the game menu or console that they can access your server's game settings.
That's how I have it setup for my Counter Strike server, I don't know anything about TradeWars.
SSH is a secure (encrypted) telnet. Basically, whatever server you're running the game on would need SSH or telnet software running to accept those people attempting to connect to your game. But if you don't have your permissions set up correctly so that they access your game directory, and your game directory only, then you can have security problems, SSH or not.
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Wow TradeWars - haven't heard that name since the BBS days. I used to have a 1200 baud modem... My how times have changed. LOL. Anyway, I know a few guys that set up Telnet servers and are running WWIV BBS from it. Do a search for "wwiv telnet" and you'll get a few hits on some boards.
Here's an on Telnet: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/ni...10/node20.html - Just open port 23 incoming and outgoing on your firewall and you should be up and running for the most part.
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Wow TradeWars - haven't heard that name since the BBS days.
They've made some major updates to the game since I hosted it last (Ver. 1.03). It used to be a single player at a time only, the new version can have as many as 255 players in the game at once, but I think that the game would be too "busy" if you had that many players at once. You would be contantly getting "messages from the federation", and getting "So and So hit some mines" messages.
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TradeWars will probably run a doorway script that is setup on the server end to control things.. just like a lot of server software does..
This board is a good example...
You can post in BOLD, but you can't use HTML <bold> - the board software controls certain access.. This would probably be the same type of thing with tradewars.. Some type of node-door to control access..
Does the TW doc say anything about the configuration?
-Jim
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Read the docs eh? lol
Looks like I can do what I was thinking about, now comes the fun part, putting it all together.
You all have at least pointed me in the right direction, thanks!