Hi all,

Pretty sure it's user error but it's had me stumped for hours now.

I've configured a menu entry to use outbound telnet, fed it an address and a port.

Every time I hit it, it starts trying to connect to the host, but ultimately seems to time out and says "Unable to connect: Press a key" before giving up entirely.

I've checked the logs and can't really see anything -- and equally I've checked that the system running Mystic is capable of reaching the hosts I've been trying.

Some additional details: I'm running it on a raspberry pi, with a 64bit build of Raspberry Pi OS, Mystic version is V1.12 A48.

Any prods in the right direction would be greatly appreciated!


Cheers!!

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On 27 Apr 2023, sober said the following...

I've configured a menu entry to use outbound telnet, fed it an address
and a port.

Every time I hit it, it starts trying to connect to the host, but ultimately seems to time out and says "Unable to connect: Press a key"

Are you able to telnet from the command line of the pi?

e.g:

$ telnet agency.bbs.nz

It might be that you need to install telnet:

$ sudo apt install telnet


Jay

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Yeah telnet installed and I'm able to use it fine on the Pi itself - I can actually even directly execute telnet from Mystic and it will work (though have some issues forcing it in to character mode which is partly why i would like to avoid this route!)

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On 27 Apr 2023, sober said the following...

Yeah telnet installed and I'm able to use it fine on the Pi itself - I
can actually even directly execute telnet from Mystic and it will work

What does your menu command look like?


I just set this up and it works from here:

Action List ------------------------ Access -------- Data
(IT) Outbound TELNET s255 /addr=agency.bbs.nz

Line from node1.log:
2023.04.27 19:55:02 Outbound to agency.bbs.nz:23



From https://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=menu_commands

Data: /addr=<hostname> /port=1234

This command creates a gated terminal session to another terminal server
using the TELNET protocol. The /addr option must be included. If the
/port option is not provided then the default port of 23 will be used.


Jay

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Yeah - this is exactly how it's set up

when I try to use it I get

Escape squence is CTRL+]
Connecting to bbswordle.com port 23.
Unable to connect: Press a key

Very strange!

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