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  • Help with Doorparty in Synchronet BBS

    From Joe@1:103/705 to All on Sun Mar 26 13:09:30 2017
    Hi Folks,

    If anyone is familiar with Doorparty, I am unable to get it working. I followed the instructions for Synchronet to a tee. I have the doorparty connector listening on localhost:9999. I have port 513 on my BBS server mapped to my server's internal ip address 192.168.1.8. (in SBBS.ini, BBS section, RloginInterface=192.168.1.8). Using PortQuery.exe I query port 513 on 127.0.0.1 and it returns, TCP port 513 NOT LISTENING. If I PortQuery port 513 on 192.168.1.8 it returns port 513 is listening.

    When I call Doorparty from the Xternal programs command menu, I get the following error:

    !ERROR -1 (61) connecting to server: localhost.

    Anyideas as to what I may be missing?

    Thank you.

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  • From echicken@1:103/705 to Joe on Mon Mar 27 10:20:10 2017
    Re: Help with Doorparty in Synchronet BBS
    By: Joe to All on Sun Mar 26 2017 13:09:30

    If anyone is familiar with Doorparty, I am unable to get it working. I followed the instructions for Synchronet to a tee. I have the doorparty connector listening on localhost:9999. I have port 513 on my BBS server

    You'll want DoorParty Connector listening on localhost:513, or 127.0.0.1:513.

    section, RloginInterface=192.168.1.8). Using PortQuery.exe I query port 513 on 127.0.0.1 and it returns, TCP port 513 NOT LISTENING. If I PortQuery port 513 on 192.168.1.8 it returns port 513 is listening.

    This is fine. By moving Synchronet's rlogin server to 192.168.1.8:513, you've freed up 127.0.0.1:513 for use by DoorParty Connector. The reason for doing this is that Synchronet's rlogin gate doesn't (last I checked) let you specify a port to connect to, so:

    When I call Doorparty from the Xternal programs command menu, I get the following error:

    !ERROR -1 (61) connecting to server: localhost.

    It's trying to connect to localhost:513, and nothing's listening there. You can't make it try localhost:9999, where DPC is listening, so you'll need to make DPC listen elsewhere.

    Edit 'settings.json' in whatever directory you installed DoorParty Connector to. Change the 'port' value (currently 9999) to 513. Restart the program. Should work.

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  • From Joe@1:103/705 to echicken on Mon Mar 27 12:41:12 2017
    Re: Help with Doorparty in Synchronet BBS
    By: echicken to Joe on Mon Mar 27 2017 10:20 am

    It's trying to connect to localhost:513, and nothing's listening there. You can't make it try localhost:9999, where DPC is listening, so you'll need to make DPC listen elsewhere.

    Edit 'settings.json' in whatever directory you installed DoorParty Connector to. Change the 'port' value (currently 9999) to 513. Restart the program. Should work.

    You are so right! I did that and it worked.

    Thanks so much!

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