* Originally in: DOVE-Net Debate
* Originally on: 06-04-17 13:41
* Originally by: IB JOE
* Originally to: Bill McGarrity

Hiya DM...

I tried to logon to your BBS and got booted... after my first attempt...

Sup??

IB Joe
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS

This is the 2nd registered user who seems to be having issues logging into the board where it boots them if they happen to input a wrong password. Here is my log:

+! (0003) Ib Joe FAILED Password attempt
@- 15:38 T: 18 sec

@! 15:38 Blocked IP: ???.???.???.???

I blocked the IP address here but I did check it in the IP and IP-silent.can and it's not there.

My GLOBAL settings in sbbs.ini..

TempDirectory=
.HostName=
.Interface=0.0.0.0
.LogLevel=Debugging
.BindRetryCount=2
.BindRetryDelay=15
.LoginAttemptDelay=5000
.LoginAttemptThrottle=20
.LoginAttemptHackThreshold=10
.LoginAttemptFilterThreshold=10
.OutgoingV4=0.0.0.0
.OutgoingV6=::
.LoginAttemptTempBanThreshold=20
.LoginAttemptTempBanDuration=20M

modopts.ini

[login]
; Send password via email to user if they forget it and can't login .email_passwords = true

Where does it store Blocked IP addresses other than the CAN files?

Thanks...

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Re: Re: News Alert
By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Sun Jun 04 2017 18:46:00

Where does it store Blocked IP addresses other than the CAN files?

../text/ip.can

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Re: Re: News Alert
By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Sun Jun 04 2017 06:46 pm

* Originally in: DOVE-Net Debate
* Originally on: 06-04-17 13:41
* Originally by: IB JOE
* Originally to: Bill McGarrity

Hiya DM...

I tried to logon to your BBS and got booted... after my first attempt...

Sup??

IB Joe
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS

This is the 2nd registered user who seems to be having issues logging into the board where it boots them if they happen to input a wrong password.
Here is my log:

+! (0003) Ib Joe FAILED Password attempt
@- 15:38 T: 18 sec

@! 15:38 Blocked IP: ???.???.???.???

I blocked the IP address here but I did check it in the IP and IP-silent.can and it's not there.

See this page and read about "Temporary Banning": http://wiki.synchro.net/howto:block-hackers

These temporary bans are not stored in any file (e.g. ip.can).

My GLOBAL settings in sbbs.ini..

TempDirectory=
HostName=
Interface=0.0.0.0
LogLevel=Debugging
BindRetryCount=2
BindRetryDelay=15
LoginAttemptDelay=5000
LoginAttemptThrottle=20
LoginAttemptHackThreshold=10
LoginAttemptFilterThreshold=10
OutgoingV4=0.0.0.0
OutgoingV6=::
LoginAttemptTempBanThreshold=20
LoginAttemptTempBanDuration=20M

Read here http://wiki.synchro.net/config:sbbs.ini#global about LoginAttemptTempBanTheshhold. Yours is set to 20, so it should take 20 unique failed login attempts to trigger a temp-ban of an IP, unless that user tried one of the names in your name.can file.

Also, you terminal server log output will have more details about the cause of the ban (not just "Blocked IP").

digital man

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Re: Re: News Alert
By: KK4QBN to Bill McGarrity on Sun Jun 04 2017 09:40 pm

Re: Re: News Alert
By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Sun Jun 04 2017 18:46:00

Where does it store Blocked IP addresses other than the CAN files?

../text/ip.can

Temporary bans are stored in memory (not a file), and I think that's what his user has hit.

digital man

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I tried to logon to your BBS and got booted... after my first attempt...

Sup??

IB Joe
AKA Joe Schweier
SysOp of Joe's Computer & BBS

This is the 2nd registered user who seems to be having issues logging into the board where it boots them if they happen to input a wrong password.
Here is my log:

+! (0003) Ib Joe FAILED Password attempt
@- 15:38 T: 18 sec

@! 15:38 Blocked IP: ???.???.???.???

I blocked the IP address here but I did check it in the IP and IP-silent.can and it's not there.

there ip.can @ \sbbs\text


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On 2017 Jun 04 18:46:00, you wrote to Digital Man:

Where does it store Blocked IP addresses other than the CAN files?

in memory... there was recent but brief discussion about this... maybe as far back as four or five months i think?

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Re: Re: News Alert
By: Digital Man to KK4QBN on Sun Jun 04 2017 19:36:20

../text/ip.can

Temporary bans are stored in memory (not a file), and I think that's what his user has hit.

ah, ok..

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Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity on 06-04-17 19:35 <=-

Hiya DM...

Read here http://wiki.synchro.net/config:sbbs.ini#global about LoginAttemptTempBanTheshhold. Yours is set to 20, so it should take 20 unique failed login attempts to trigger a temp-ban of an IP, unless
that user tried one of the names in your name.can file.

The user in question, IB Joe, has logged in numerous times without issue. Over the past 2 months there have been others who've said the same thing has happened, log in and use the wrong password on the first login and poof... they're history. I have set the above to 20 so I'll not have this issue. His username is not in the name.can file either.

Also, you terminal server log output will have more details about the cause of the ban (not just "Blocked IP").

Here is the log output..

6/4 03:38:25p 1488 Telnet connection accepted from: xxx.x.xxx.xx port 1411
6/4 03:38:25p 1488 Hostname: S0106bc4dfb234923.ed.xxxxxxx.net
6/4 03:38:26p Node 1 attached to local interface 192.168.1.2 port 23
6/4 03:38:26p Node 1 15:38 Sun Jun 04 2017 Node 1
6/4 03:38:26p Node 1 Telnet S0106bc4dfb234923.ed.xxxxx.net [xxx.x.x.xx]
6/4 03:38:43p Node 1 (0003) Ib Joe FAILED Password attempt
6/4 03:38:43p Node 1 !Failed login with blocked user name: Ib Joe

I checked the name.can and 'IB Joe' isn't in there. There is an entry for the letter 'i' so is that causing an issue being his login name begins with the letter I?

Thanks...


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mark lewis wrote to Bill McGarrity on 06-05-17 00:42 <=-

On 2017 Jun 04 18:46:00, you wrote to Digital Man:

Where does it store Blocked IP addresses other than the CAN files?

in memory... there was recent but brief discussion about this... maybe
as far back as four or five months i think?

Quite possible but unfortunately, when the problem isn't your own, attention span is minimal. :/


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Re: News Alert
By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Mon Jun 05 2017 12:37 pm

Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity on 06-04-17 19:35 <=-

Hiya DM...

Read here http://wiki.synchro.net/config:sbbs.ini#global about LoginAttemptTempBanTheshhold. Yours is set to 20, so it should take 20 unique failed login attempts to trigger a temp-ban of an IP, unless that user tried one of the names in your name.can file.

The user in question, IB Joe, has logged in numerous times without issue. Over the past 2 months there have been others who've said the same thing has happened, log in and use the wrong password on the first login and poof... they're history. I have set the above to 20 so I'll not have this issue. His username is not in the name.can file either.

Also, you terminal server log output will have more details about the cause of the ban (not just "Blocked IP").

Here is the log output..

6/4 03:38:25p 1488 Telnet connection accepted from: xxx.x.xxx.xx port 1411
6/4 03:38:25p 1488 Hostname: S0106bc4dfb234923.ed.xxxxxxx.net
6/4 03:38:26p Node 1 attached to local interface 192.168.1.2 port 23
6/4 03:38:26p Node 1 15:38 Sun Jun 04 2017 Node 1
6/4 03:38:26p Node 1 Telnet S0106bc4dfb234923.ed.xxxxx.net [xxx.x.x.xx]
6/4 03:38:43p Node 1 (0003) Ib Joe FAILED Password attempt
6/4 03:38:43p Node 1 !Failed login with blocked user name: Ib Joe

I checked the name.can and 'IB Joe' isn't in there. There is an entry for the letter 'i' so is that causing an issue being his login name begins with the letter I?

Not unless the entry is actually "i~", as that would block all login names that begin with the letter 'I'.

Something in your name.can is matching the string "Ib Joe", so perhaps just posting the contents of your name.can will help us to identify the problem.

digital man

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Re: News Alert
By: Digital Man to Bill McGarrity on Tue Jun 06 2017 12:23:38

Hiya DM...

I checked the name.can and 'IB Joe' isn't in there. There is an entry for the letter 'i' so is that causing an issue being his login name begins with the letter I?

Not unless the entry is actually "i~", as that would block all login
names that begin with the letter 'I'.

Nope, not there...

Something in your name.can is matching the string "Ib Joe", so
perhaps just posting the contents of your name.can will help us to identify the problem.

Here ya go...

; Enter disallowed user names (aliases) in this file
; Wildcard characters (*, ~, ^) are allowed
; Rejection message file: text/badname.msg
new
Enable
!!huawei
System
Support
Admin1
Shell
yUroot
Cd /tmp || Cd /var/run ||
/bin/busybox Mirai
all
sysop~
netmail
Root
Admin
Xc3511
Sh
Busybox Ps
@~
#~
!~
:~
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
i
j
k
l
m
n
o
p
q
r
s
t
u
v
w
x
y
z

Hope this helps...

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Re: News Alert
By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Tue Jun 06 2017 03:44 pm

Re: News Alert
By: Digital Man to Bill McGarrity on Tue Jun 06 2017 12:23:38

Hiya DM...

I checked the name.can and 'IB Joe' isn't in there. There is an entry for the letter 'i' so is that causing an issue being his login name begins with the letter I?

Not unless the entry is actually "i~", as that would block all login names that begin with the letter 'I'.

Nope, not there...

Something in your name.can is matching the string "Ib Joe", so
perhaps just posting the contents of your name.can will help us to identify the problem.

Here ya go...

; Enter disallowed user names (aliases) in this file
; Wildcard characters (*, ~, ^) are allowed
; Rejection message file: text/badname.msg
new
Enable
!!huawei

^ There's your problem.

A '!' as the first char on the line negates the matching logic. So your name.can says that any name is *not* "!hauwei" is trash.

You could do huawei~ instead. Then any name containing "huawei" will be considered trash/bad.

BBS aliases already have to begin with an alphabetic character, so any alias starting with a symbol or number would not be allowed (e.g. when creating a new user account).

digital man

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Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity on 06-06-17 21:46 <=-

Re: News Alert
By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Tue Jun 06 2017 03:44 pm

Something in your name.can is matching the string "Ib Joe", so
perhaps just posting the contents of your name.can will help us to identify the problem.

Here ya go...

; Enter disallowed user names (aliases) in this file
; Wildcard characters (*, ~, ^) are allowed
; Rejection message file: text/badname.msg
new
Enable
!!huawei

^ There's your problem.

A '!' as the first char on the line negates the matching logic. So your name.can says that any name is *not* "!hauwei" is trash.

Ahhh.... ok...

You could do huawei~ instead. Then any name containing "huawei" will be considered trash/bad.

Done....

BBS aliases already have to begin with an alphabetic character, so any alias starting with a symbol or number would not be allowed (e.g. when creating a new user account).

name.can edited and board tested... just like the doctor ordered..

Thanks again DM...


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Re: News Alert
By: Bill McGarrity to Digital Man on Wed Jun 07 2017 01:29 pm

name.can edited and board tested... just like the doctor ordered..

No problemo.

digital man

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Bill,

Here ya go...

That gave me a couple new items for my user.can file...thanks.

I originally was going to enable SSH, on port 2222 (instead of 22),
but decided not to...for 2 reasons:

1) I was getting bombarded with requests, tying up the nodes.

2) The router I have, a LinkSys WRT54G, has only 10 "port slots"
available, for things like telnet, http, web, smtp, pop3, etc. Yet,
Synchronet has a lot more "port options".

Yet, I don't know where to start looking for a router that has "more
ports". I do need one port for a ham radio VoIP application (Echolink),
and a port for my Acronis LAN backup utility.

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Daryl Stout wrote to BILL MCGARRITY <=-

Yet, I don't know where to start looking for a router that has "more ports". I do need one port for a ham radio VoIP application (Echolink), and a port for my Acronis LAN backup utility.

Flash the Linksys with DD-WRT or OpenWRT? :)


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Re: News Alert
By: Daryl Stout to BILL MCGARRITY on Tue Jun 13 2017 18:05:00

2) The router I have, a LinkSys WRT54G, has only 10 "port slots" available, for things like telnet, http, web, smtp, pop3, etc. Yet, Synchronet has a lot more "port options".

if its true that this routers nat only supports 10 slots, it appears it has the DMZ function which will point any incoming traffic (I believe) that is'nt recongnized to whatever machine you set it to point to. set your NAT (forwading) up for your slots 80, 23, 21, etc. (anything that your router might use as configuration ports) and then set your DMZ to the BBS machine IP. then setup one hell of a firewall. I might be wrong on this, but it is the way I understand it, my router states that DMZ will forward any machine that ask for a port not specified in the nat or otherwize to that machine setup as the DMZ.

I guess it would make it quite risky as it will let EVERYTHING into that machine. but there could be an alternative (or upgraded) firmware to flash to that particular router. I have'nt seen one in a long time with restrictions on NAT, I had one that allowed 30, but yeah, Synchronet could just about use 30 if using all of them.

There are some of the services I do not use at the moment so that helps, and does that particular NAT allow adding a range of ports per entry? eg:

incoming: 21-25 TCP machine: 21-25 TCP
incoming: 79-80 TCP machine: 79-80 TCP

its not ideal, but it helps..



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Re: News Alert
By: Daryl Stout to BILL MCGARRITY on Tue Jun 13 2017 06:05 pm

I originally was going to enable SSH, on port 2222 (instead of 22),
but decided not to...for 2 reasons:

1) I was getting bombarded with requests, tying up the nodes.

2) The router I have, a LinkSys WRT54G, has only 10 "port slots"
available, for things like telnet, http, web, smtp, pop3, etc. Yet, Synchronet has a lot more "port options".

Yet, I don't know where to start looking for a router that has "more ports". I do need one port for a ham radio VoIP application (Echolink),
and a port for my Acronis LAN backup utility.

Netgear Nighthawk 6 is a great router that has what you want/need
thats what I have and I love it.

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Tony,

Yet, I don't know where to start looking for a router that has "more ports". I do need one port for a ham radio VoIP application (Echolink), and a port for my Acronis LAN backup utility.

Flash the Linksys with DD-WRT or OpenWRT? :)

I'm going to plead ignorance. I'm going to have to get assistance on
this, as I have no clue what to do. I know this brand and model of
router is used for High Speed Multi-Mesh (HSMM) communications in ham
radio, but I really don't want to buy a new router.

After all, ham radio operators are some of the most CHEAPSKATE....er, correction...FRUGAL...individuals you'll ever meet. (hi hi).

Daryl, WX1DER

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Tim,

if its true that this routers nat only supports 10 slots, it appears it has t K>DMZ function which will point any incoming traffic (I believe) that is'nt K>recongnized to whatever machine you set it to point to. set your NAT K>(forwading) up for your slots 80, 23, 21, etc. (anything that your router mig K>use as configuration ports) and then set your DMZ to the BBS machine IP. then K>setup one hell of a firewall. I might be wrong on this, but it is the way I K>understand it, my router states that DMZ will forward any machine that ask fo K>a port not specified in the nat or otherwize to that machine setup as the DMZ

Unfortunately, I'm not electronically or programming inclined. I can
write a batchfile for the BBS...but, my programming ENDS at setting the
clock on the microwave oven. If I forget how to do that, I'm going to
starve to death. :P

What VK3JED (Tony) noted seems a lot simpler...but even there, I have
little experience working with routers, other than the basic setup.

Daryl, WX1DER
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Denn,

Netgear Nighthawk 6 is a great router that has what you want/need
thats what I have and I love it.

I'll make a note of that, and see what I can find out.

Daryl

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Re: Re: News Alert
By: Daryl Stout to VK3JED on Wed Jun 14 2017 15:35:00

After all, ham radio operators are some of the most CHEAPSKATE....er, correction...FRUGAL...individuals you'll ever meet. (hi hi).

It pays to be at times.. especially when it comes to trying to save up money to buy one of the big four and fix the rig up correctly..

for what I want, I just buy some old surplus wideband vhf/uhf motos and have fun with them :)

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Re: News Alert
By: Daryl Stout to KK4QBN on Wed Jun 14 2017 15:37:00

Unfortunately, I'm not electronically or programming inclined. I can
write a batchfile for the BBS...but, my programming ENDS at setting the clock on the microwave oven. If I forget how to do that, I'm going to starve to death. :P

that router has that function, and it should be as simple as just finding the option and enabling it.. it should be close to where your NAT or ip forwarding is.

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Daryl Stout wrote to VK3JED <=-

Flash the Linksys with DD-WRT or OpenWRT? :)

I'm going to plead ignorance. I'm going to have to get assistance on this, as I have no clue what to do. I know this brand and model of
router is used for High Speed Multi-Mesh (HSMM) communications in ham radio, but I really don't want to buy a new router.

Well, assuming it's a compatible variant, this upgrade is free. The Linksys firmware is pretty brain dead (as you've seen), and the third party offerings are very powerful. :) Get in touch with your local gurus to get the deed done.


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Daryl Stout wrote to KK4QBN <=-

What VK3JED (Tony) noted seems a lot simpler...but even there, I have little experience working with routers, other than the basic setup.

You'd still have to configure it after it's been reflashed (i.e. write down all important settings before embarking on this project! - saving is useless, because the backup will be unreadable by the new firmware :) ).

I know this sounds harsh, but I believe networking is a fundamental skill that hams should learn. Many of our systems are networked, so a basic understanding of IP, addressing, routers, TCP, UDP and the like is essential for the modern ham, like Morse was for the first hams.

I learned my IP theory at university and practice using HA9Q NOS on an XT over 1200 bps packet. Being able to watch TCP handshakes at a speed that can be followed in real time is very instructive! :)


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Re: Re: News Alert
By: Vk3jed to Daryl Stout on Wed Jun 14 2017 04:13 pm

Daryl Stout wrote to BILL MCGARRITY <=-

Yet, I don't know where to start looking for a router that has "more ports". I do need one port for a ham radio VoIP application (Echolink), and a port for my Acronis LAN backup utility.

Flash the Linksys with DD-WRT or OpenWRT? :)

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If he's running a WRT54g, he really needs to flash it with DD-WRT. Works great on that router

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Stargazer wrote to Vk3jed <=-.

If he's running a WRT54g, he really needs to flash it with DD-WRT.
Works great on that router

I wouldn't argue with that. :)


... DejC Moo: the feeling you have heard this bull before.
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Stargazer,

Flash the Linksys with DD-WRT or OpenWRT? :)

If he's running a WRT54g, he really needs to flash it with DD-WRT. Works grea S>on that router

First, that will save me buying a new one. Second, I'll have to find
that deal, and get instructions on how to do it, so I really don't screw
things up.

The reason for the latter is that before my wife died over 10 years
ago now, she got me T-shirts that noted:

Front: "WARNING!! KLUTZ ON THE LOOSE!!".

Back: "DANGER!! ACCIDENT WAITING TO HAPPEN!!".

Her response?? "That's him".

Nice to have the wife so supportive. :P

I can write a batchfile for the BBS, but my programming ENDS at
setting the clock on the microwave oven. If I forget how to do that, I'm
going to starve to death.

Daryl

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