From Newsgroup: alt.bbs.synchronet
To: Nightfox
On 10-09-20 13:06, Nightfox wrote to The Millionaire <=-
If you're just running a BBS for messages, online games, and the usual files sysops carry, I don't think there's any real reason to use a VPN
for a BBS. Synchronet also supports SSH, but it seems most people would rather use telnet than SSH to log into a BBS..
There are corner cases - I run a couple:
1. I need more than 1 public IP, so I have a VPN routing a /28 from the networking club that I'm a member of.
2. To avoid NAT timeouts. When I travel, I use ZeroTier, which is a virtual LAN, underneath the SSH connection back to the BBS. The reason I do this is because if I connect natively over IPv4, a NAT timeout usually kills the session, if I'm idle for more than several minutes. ZeroTier looks like an Ethernet LAN, so if there there is a NAT timeout, the connection on the VLAN won't see it. ZT will also recover if the underlying connection drops out, reconnects and gets a new IP.
So yes, there are corner cases, where a VPN or similar tech can be used. :)
... My Brain has too many tabs open...
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