On 10-29-14 14:13, Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
Re: Windows Telnet...
By: Bill McGarrity to All on Wed Oct 29 2014 11:04 am
Good day all...
Quick question. Can I use Window's telent.exe as a command in a door to connect to an outside IP and have the I/O appear in the callers client?
Possibly. I'm not sure I would trust users with access to Microsoft's
telnet.exe. For one thing, it would allow them to 'close' the connection you're bridging them with and open another connection, anywhere, potentially using your system as an unsuspecting attack source.
Understood... but if I use the Clean-up command to "exit" the window?
That wouldn't help. :-)
Reason behind this, the IP i am trying to access requires a newer
version of telnet than what is supplied with Synchronet's telgate.
What led you to that conclusion? I'm not aware of any "newer version
of telnet" since RFC854, from 1983. There are additional
options, suboptions, etc. introduced in subsequent RFCs, but these aren't "newer versions of telnet"
This is the message I get when logging in with telgate
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- * Welcome to THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND telnet service! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- *
* * National Weather Service information provided by Alden Electronics, Inc. * * and updated each minute as reports come in over our data feed.
* *
* * **Note: If you cannot get past this opening screen, you must use a
* * different version of the "telnet" program--some of the ones for IBM
* * compatible PC's have a bug that prevents proper connection.
* *
* * comments: jmasters@wunderground.com
* ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
This screen is as far as I can get. I have to CTRL-] to disconnect. The
url s:
rainmaker.wunderground.com
Maybe you can try it on your end.
Yeah, I'll give it a look-see and let you know.
Maybe you can try it on your end.
Yeah, I'll give it a look-see and let you know.
Thank you sir!!
On 11-01-14 18:23, Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
Maybe you can try it on your end.
Yeah, I'll give it a look-see and let you know.
Thank you sir!!
I tried it myself by using the sysop command ";EXEC ?telgate rainmaker.wunderground.com" and it worked fine. You have to hit enter/return when it prompt you to and then you can enter a city code
and use the menu. Perhaps you're running an older version of
Synchronet?
I tried it myself by using the sysop command ";EXEC ?telgate rainmaker.wunderground.com" and it worked fine. You have to hit enter/return when it prompt you to and then you can enter a city code
and use the menu. Perhaps you're running an older version of
Synchronet?
On 11-01-14 21:41, Access Denied wrote to Digital Man & Bill McGarrity <=-
Hello Digital,
On 01 Nov 14 18:23, Digital Man wrote to Bill McGarrity:
I tried it myself by using the sysop command ";EXEC ?telgate rainmaker.wunderground.com" and it worked fine. You have to hit enter/return when it prompt you to and then you can enter acity code
and use the menu. Perhaps you're running an older version of
Synchronet?
I can also confirm it works here. I got my forecast for the next week anyways, if that's what you're looking for.
Just an FYI, there's no "hit a letter and it happens" kinda thing. You have to hit enter for every prompt. Like when you type in your 3 letter city code, you have to hit enter. When you hit X to exit, you have to
hit enter also. I don't even think my 3 letters I typed in displayed on
my end, but when I typed them and hit enter it showed my forecast.
If someone wants to telnet in and see if works for them and let me know I would appreciate it. Go to External programs, choose 10 then 1.
On 11-02-14 12:00, Dennis Ayala wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
If someone wants to telnet in and see if works for them and let me know I would appreciate it. Go to External programs, choose 10 then 1.
I tried to connect to your BBS but the connection was refused.
Perhaps you're running an older version of Synchronet?
possibly... max hasn't updated that synchronet install in several months... we're not even sure if the past updates from CVS have
gone properlybecause of some sort of framebuffer error when
running the jsexec tool to update the javascript files :/ there is
no framebuffer on the nix system that max is using and there's no
GUI either...
Mark... try logging on over here... Ken said it worked, just
wasn't getting input echo back. I just updated all my exec files
to yesterday's release.
On 11-03-14 22:02, mark lewis wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
On Mon, 03 Nov 2014, Bill McGarrity wrote to mark lewis:
Perhaps you're running an older version of Synchronet?
possibly... max hasn't updated that synchronet install in several months... we're not even sure if the past updates from CVS have
gone properly because of some sort of framebuffer error when
running the jsexec tool to update the javascript files :/ there is
no framebuffer on the nix system that max is using and there's no
GUI either...
Mark... try logging on over here... Ken said it worked, just
wasn't getting input echo back. I just updated all my exec files
to yesterday's release.
i'll try to remember that tomorrow... i'm about wiped out right now...
do you have any ideas on the framebuffer thing i mention above and
whether or not it might have prevented the jsexec process from updating the javascript files properly??
Bill, I had the same problem you were seeing, but then it went away. The
day you posted about it, I set up a Telgate and every time I got the first screen that asked you to hit enter to continue, it would fall apart right there. Nothing would happen at all.
Now, sincethen I have tried it on your BBS and it works (except I can't
see what I have typed into the prompt, but the text is certainly there because it works when I hit enter). Also, my own Telgate on my BBS is working just the same as it is on yours. So, whatever was going on stopped, and it was probably on Weather Underground's end.
For what its worth, if I telnet directly through Windows Telnet, I can see whatever I type for responses, but if I Telnet through SyncTerm directly, I cannot see my responses that I type. Not a big deal to me, but it was a curious behavior.
Now, since then I have tried it on your BBS and it works (except I can't see what I have typed into the prompt, but the text is certainly there because it works when I hit enter). Also, my own Telgate on my BBS is working just the same as itis on yours. So, whatever was going on stopped, and it was probably on Weather Underground's end.
You can enable local echo with the telgate TG_ECHO option.
digital man
Youcan enable local echo with the telgate TG_ECHO option.
digital man
Thanks digital man! Is that done right on the command line that calls the telgate, or is that in a config file somewhere?
~KenDB3
The update.js script does not "update from CVS" or actually perform any kind of update, it's more like a post-update scriptto be run when upgrading from v3.14 or earlier to v3.15 and later.
On 11-05-1414:47, mark lewis wrote to KenDB3 <=-
On Wed, 05 Nov 2014, KenDB3 wrote to Digital Man:
I Found what I was looking for, but am still a bit confused. http://www.synchro.net/docs/external_programs.html#InternalGateways
So, from what the docs are telling me, it should be passed on the
command line, but I'm unsure of formatting. Would it look likethis?
*telgate rainmaker.wunderground.com TG_ECHO
that's what we tried, too... but the telgate.js script ignores
everything after the remote host... that's why we copied the telgate.js file and edited the new one to manually add thoseoptions...
bbs.telnet_gate(argv[0],TG_PASSTHRU|TG_LINEMODE|TG_ECHO|TG_CRLF);
that is the only real set of changeswe made other than commenting out
the pause line as noted in my previous post...
On Tue, 04 Nov 2014,Digital Man wrote to mark lewis:
i just tried it on max's system exactly like you show above... no
amount of mashing on any of the enter keys worked to get past that
"press enter to continue" prompt...
Perhaps you're running an older version of Synchronet?
possibly... max hasn't updated that synchronet install in several months...
What version are you/he running then?
3.16 i think...
whatever it is that's in CVS since 2012 Dec 08... i think
max has done 4 or 5 CVS updates since then... i know that at least one update was done incorrectly and it took a day to recover from but since
then max wrote a script to do it properly... they just don't update the system but once every few months or so... the last update was several
months ago so it is probably about time for them to update again ;)
Quick question. Can I use Window's telent.exe as a command in a door to connect to an outside IP and have the I/O appear in the callers client? Reason behind this, the IP i am trying to access requires a newer version of telnet than what is supplied with Synchronet's telgate. At a command prompt using Windows telnet I can access the site with no problems. Connecting to the system with a client the system opens a DOS window, the information is displayed within that window yet nothing to the incoming client. Do I need to configure the Intercept I/O? Right now all I have toggled is Native to Yes and Shell to yes.
Quick question. Can I use Window's telent.exe as a command in a door to connect to an outside IP and have the I/O appear in the callers client? Reason behind this, the IP i am trying to access requires a newer version of telnet than what is supplied with Synchronet's telgate. At a command prompt using Windows telnet I can access the site with no problems. Connecting to the system with a client the system opens a DOS window, the information is displayed within that window yet nothing to the incoming client. Do I need to configure the Intercept I/O? Right now all I have toggled is Native to Yes and Shell to yes.Have you used Telnetdoor.exe from Rich Parish. I use it on Synchronet and Mystic board and have had no problems with it.
Zazz wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-
Re: Windows Telnet...
By: Bill McGarrity to All on Wed Oct 29 2014 10:49 am
Quick question. Can I use Window's telent.exe as a command in a door to connect to an outside IP and have the I/O appear in the callers client? Reason behind this, the IP i am trying to access requires a newer version of telnet than what is supplied with Synchronet's telgate. At a command prompt using Windows telnet I can access the site with no problems. Connecting to the system with a client the system opens a DOS window, the information is displayed within that window yet nothing to the incoming client. Do I need to configure the Intercept I/O? Right now all I have toggled is Native to Yes and Shell to yes.
Have you used Telnetdoor.exe from Rich Parish. I use it on Synchronet
and Mystic board and have had no problems with it.
Re: Windows Telnet...
By: Bill McGarrity to All on Wed Oct 29 2014 10:49 am
Quick question. Can I use Window's telent.exe as a command in a door to connect to an outside IP and have the I/O appear in the callers client? Reason behind this, the IP i am trying to access requires a newer version of telnet than what is supplied with Synchronet's telgate. At a command prompt using Windows telnet I can access the site with no problems. Connecting to the system with a client the system opens a DOS window, the information is displayed within that window yet nothing to the incoming client. Do I need to configure the Intercept I/O? Right now all I have toggled is Native to Yes and Shell to yes.
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