Interesting little issue. If running ircd from within Synchronet as a non-standalone service, it binds to the properly defined interface in sbbs.ini. On the other hand, when running ircd as a standalone service from systemd, it binds to 0.0.0.0.
Please note, my BBS interface is 172.31.1.184 and my management interface is 172.31.5.242.
ircd from within Synchronet:
tcp 0 0 172.31.1.184:6667 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 172.31.1.184:36197 71.95.196.34:6667
ESTABLISHED
ircd when started from systemd:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6667 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN tcp 0 0 172.31.5.242:35327 71.95.196.34:6667
ESTABLISHED tcp6 0 0 :::6667 :::*
LISTEN
From the looks of it, the standalone initialization of it comes from ircd.js, lines 168 through 181:
if(this.server==undefined) { // Running from JSexec?
if (!jsexec_revision_detail)
jsexec_revision_detail = "JSexec";
if (cmdline_port)
default_port = cmdline_port;
else if (mline_port)
default_port = mline_port;
server = { socket: false, terminated: false,
version_detail: jsexec_revision_detail, interface_ip_addr_list: ["0.0.0.0","::"] };
server.socket = create_new_socket(default_port)
if (!server.socket)
exit();
}
Yet, from lines 626 to 646, the else statement to utilize the sbbs.ini defined interface will likely never get called:
function connect_to_server(this_cline,the_port) {
var connect_sock;
var new_id;
if (!the_port && this_cline.port)
the_port = this_cline.port;
else if (!the_port)
the_port = default_port; // try a safe default.
if (js.global.ConnectedSocket != undefined) {
try {
connect_sock = new ConnectedSocket(this_cline.host, the_port, {timeout:ob_sock_timeout, bindaddrs:server.interface_ip_addr_list});
}
catch(e) {
connect_sock = new Socket();
}
}
else {
connect_sock = new Socket();
connect_sock.bind(0,server.interface_ip_address);
connect_sock.connect(this_cline.host,the_port,ob_sock_timeout);
}
I'm a little stumped on how to fix this. I can obviously tweak interface_ip_addr_list and put the correct interface in it, but that would make the solution only work for me and I don't want that.
Thoughts?
The person to talk to about this stuff would be either cyan or deuce in #synchronet at irc.synchro.net (Cyan wrote the ircd.js). I saw you attempted to get Deuce's attention regarding your BinkIT 100% CPU utilization issue and didn't get any response. Sometimes you've got to ping him multiple times. echicken or nelgin might also have some helpful input on the ircd local interface issue (and those 2 monitor DOVE-Net usually, so maybe they're reply here).
Re: ircd Issue
By: Digital Man to Dream Master on Fri Jan 22 2021 12:01 pm
The person to talk to about this stuff would be either cyan or deuce in #synchronet at irc.synchro.net (Cyan wrote the ircd.js). I saw you attempted to get Deuce's attention regarding your BinkIT 100% CPU utilization issue and didn't get any response. Sometimes you've got to ping him multiple times. echicken or nelgin might also have some helpful input on the ircd local interface issue (and those 2 monitor DOVE-Net usually, so maybe they're reply here).
Thank you. I tried reaching out to Deuce on irc, no glory. Cyan isn't online. Maybe I'll get lucky some time tonight when everyone is bored with their families. :)
Re: ircd Issue
By: Digital Man to Dream Master on Fri Jan 22 2021 12:01 pm
The person to talk to about this stuff would be either cyan or deuce in #synchronet at irc.synchro.net (Cyan wrote the ircd.js). I saw you attempted
to get Deuce's attention regarding your BinkIT 100% CPU utilization issue and didn't get any response. Sometimes you've got to ping him multiple times. echicken or nelgin might also have some helpful input on the ircd local interface issue (and those 2 monitor DOVE-Net usually, so maybe they're reply here).
Thank you. I tried reaching out to Deuce on irc, no glory. Cyan isn't online. Maybe I'll get lucky some time tonight when everyone is bored with their families. :)
Also, I think I found the issue with BinkIT. I'm going to try to replicate it again this weekend and report back.
Dream wrote:
Re: ircd Issue
By: Digital Man to Dream Master on Fri Jan 22 2021 12:01 pm
The person to talk to about this stuff would be either cyan or deuce in #synchronet at irc.synchro.net (Cyan wrote the ircd.js). I saw you attempted
to get Deuce's attention regarding your BinkIT 100% CPU utilization issue and didn't get any response. Sometimes you've got to ping him multiple times. echicken or nelgin might also have some helpful input on the ircd local interface issue (and those 2 monitor DOVE-Net usually, so maybe they're reply here).
Thank you. I tried reaching out to Deuce on irc, no glory. Cyan isn't online. Maybe I'll get lucky some time tonight when everyone is bored with their families. :)
Also, I think I found the issue with BinkIT. I'm going to try to replicate it again this weekend and report back.
Deuce added some documentation to services.ini
; Interface (default: network interface IP address specified in sbbs.ini [services])
; Host (default: unspecified) - only run on the specified hostname
; NotHost (default: unspecified) - do not run on the specified hostname
SO if you just specify the Interface with IP then the service will bind to that ip.
Deuce added some documentation to services.ini
; Interface (default: network interface IP address specified in sbbs.ini [services])
; Host (default: unspecified) - only run on the specified hostname
; NotHost (default: unspecified) - do not run on the specified hostname
SO if you just specify the Interface with IP then the service will bind to that ip.
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