PDP-11 BBS

From: Brian Roth <broth_at_heathers.stdio.com>
Date: Wed Apr 4 19:54:00 2001

I am looking for some ideas for putting one of my DEC machines on the
net. I used to run a Unix bbs years ago on a 386 running Xenix and XBBS
and really enjoyed it a lot. I noticed that the source is still around
for that program on the net.

This is what I have:

11/23+ running RT-11. I have the TCP-IP package for it and I beleive I
have everything I need to make it work.

11/53 running RSX but I can probably coax BSD on it without a problem.

VAXstation II running VAX/VMS 4.4 but I also have netBSD for it. I know
nothing about VMS.

I want to make these machines available but at the same time I want to
batten down the hatches so they are not wide open for troublemakers. I
personally would like to put the 11/23+ on the net. If I could make that
work, then it would be easy to duplicate it on my 11/34 and put that on
the net.

These would be running behind my IP masq'ed Linux router. I could port
forward Telnet and FTP services. Maybe even HTTP if I could get that
working on the RT-11 box. Right now thats going to my current web
server.

Any ideas?

Brian.
Received on Wed Apr 04 2001 - 19:54:00 BST