This section of the Mystic BBS Configuration System allows a Sysop to enable/disable and set specific configuration settings for variety of different servers Mystic BBS offers.

Here's the view of the 'Available Servers' menu from a fresh install of Mystic showing several servers ready for configuration.

               ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Available Servers ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
               
                Active  Type      ID         Port  IPV4  IPV6
               ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
                Yes     TELNET    TELNET       23  Yes   Yes
                No      RLOGIN    RLOGIN      513  Yes   Yes
                No      SSH       SSH          22  Yes   Yes
                Yes     BINKP     BINKP     24554  Yes   Yes
                No      FTP       FTP          21  Yes   Yes
                No      NNTP      NNTP        119  Yes   Yes
                No      POP3      POP3        110  Yes   Yes
                No      SMTP      SMTP         25  Yes   Yes
               
               ─────────────────────────────────────────────────
                            Press / for command list
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If you wish to insert or delete a server(s) from this list use the / key to open the command list.

You can create any number of servers, and all settings are completely independent of each other. You can even create multiple servers of the same type! You can have IPV4 on one adapter while IPV6 runs on another NIC, for example. One telnet server on port 2323 and one on port 23, etc.

It's also worth taking the time to read and understand a discussion about Max BBS Nodes found in the General Options section of the 'Servers' menu.

Important: When any of the servers are set to 'Active' it's the Mystic Internet Server (MIS) that is actually responsible for running each server instance. MIS is something you will want to have running at all times to ensure you, your users and other BBS can all connect to your Mystic BBS via the Internet.

In subsequent sections lets explore each server separately and look at what configuration options are available for each one.

Mystic BBS offers a Telnet server that users of the BBS can connect to. The default port for Telnet is 23 but this can be set to something different if you wish.

The Telnet server configuration screen looks like this.

       ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀ Server TELNET ▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀▀
       
         Active        │ Yes
         ID            │ TELNET
         Adapter Type  │ IPV4+IPV6
         IPV4 Adapter  │ 0.0.0.0
         IPV6 Adapter  │ ::
         Port          │ 23
         Max Allowed   │ 5
         Auto IP Ban   │ 4  in 120 secs
         Country Block │ No
         Send Blocked  │ No
         Dupe IP Limit │ 1
       

There are a number of options available to you for configuration in this screen.

Is the server active or not? Options are 'Yes' or 'No'

Sets a protocol ID shown in the Mystic Internet Server 'status' screen. Best to leave these as default.

Use IPv4, IPv6 or dual stack? Options are IPV4, IPV6, IPV4+IPV6

Specify network interface for IPv4 adapter. Leave as 0.0.0.0 if you wish Mystic to accept ANY connection on a specified port for all IPv4 adapters.

Specify network interface for IPv6 adapter. Leave as :: if you wish Mystic to accept ANY connection on a specified port for all IPv6 adapters.

Set which port to use for new connections on this server.

Set maximum concurrent connections allowed for this server. This setting is also associated with Max BBS Nodes found in the General Options section of the 'Servers' menu.

This option will automatically BAN an IP if they connect to a server more than X times in X seconds. The default recommendation is 4 connections in 120 seconds. Setting either of the values to a zero will disable this feature.

Mystic offers local country blocking that uses a local database. Read more about this feature in the Edit Country Blocking section of the Wiki. Options for this setting are 'Yes' of 'No'.

[ this Wiki page is under construction - additional servers and config information are being added, please check back again soon ]