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On Thu, 2 Jul 2026 21:31:08 +0000
"Joacim Melin" (2:221/242) <
Joacim.Melin@f242.n221.z2.fidonet> wrote:
> WvV> Hi Joacim,
>
> WvV> On 2026-07-02 19:59:53, you wrote to All:
>
> JM>> I had to compile Binkd on Rocky Linux 10 and everything seems
> JM>> to work fine. Outgoing packets are sent properly but Binkd does
> JM>> not respond to incoming traffic from the Internet. I have
> JM>> verified that the firewall rules in OPNsense (which powers my
> JM>> Firewall) is not the issue and Binkd responds fine if I telnet
> JM>> to port 24554 on my internal network.
>
> WvV> Did you try both 127.0.0.1 (localhost), and the local ip number
> WvV> on your network (like: 192.168.0.x), and their IPv6
> WvV> counterparts?
>
> WvV> If both work, it must be a firewall or router problem...
>
>
> WvV> Bye, Wilfred.
>
> Yes both localhost and the local IP address works. There are no
> local firewall active on the server and other services (nntp, etc)
> works fine from the Internet. The port (24559, forwarded to 24554 in
> the OPNSense firewall) works fine with my other Binkd installation
> for this node number when I tried to direct the traffic to that
> server as a test. Binkd on the new server will simply not work with
> any traffic from the Internet.
>
> I enabled this in the binkd configuration:
>
> iport binkp
> oport binkp
> oblksize 4096
> timeout 5m
> connect-timeout 5m
> bindaddr 10.0.2.237
> listen *
>
>
> It did not help.
>
> I agree this looks like a firewall configuration issue but I have
> tested everything and the only conclusion I can find is that Binkd is
> the issue.
>
>
> --- NiKom v2.6.0
> * Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (2:221/242.0)
While it`s running...
sudo netstat -anp|grep bink
and see if it`s actually listening on the binkp port. I assume that
binkp is pulled from /etc/services. I have all those commented out in
my config and it just works. I am not sure what listen is, I don`t have
one of those.
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