[tech] Re: [wheel] telnet mermaid

[Nick Bannon]

On Sun, Apr 08, 2001 at 04:18:11PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> telnet mermaid on port 22 currently forwards the connection to morwong, as
> though it's through the charged tunnel ... anybody know how to fix this?

dispense can be called as a coke server
(coke+door+cokebank+authentication), a (charged) telnet server or both
simultaneously. If it's both, and it's running as a standalone daemon
started at boot, then it binds to the telnet port. (before inetd gets a
lookin, I guess)

So - I've made it start as a standalone coke server (it was "standalone
both", and left the inetd settings as they were - port 23 (telnet) goes
to in.telnetd, port 222 (telnat) goes to "dispense telnet". This is the
desired setup - the previous one would only seem to work if inetd was
started first.

mooneye will forward connections to its telnet port to mermaid's telnat
port.

Nick.

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