Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Daryl Stout to Havok on Tue Feb 28 2023 12:50 am

With a Windows install of Synchronet you may want to try Peerblock small
little foot print program that has a option to make a list bad ip's in
any and all countries. I did a search and found one place that you can
make a list from of bot type peeps and it has worked very well.

I already have PeerBlock set up and running. However, for some of the ham radio traffic nets that I do, I had to disable it, as I couldn't connect to certain "reflectors" with the D-Star mode.

At least for the nets that I run, I can leave Peerblock enabled. The fee to renew the data files each year is only around $10...you can't get a good meal for that anymore!!

i didn't even know they did that.
i just use a custom blocklist.
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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Greg Youngblood to Daryl Stout on Wed Mar 01 2023 04:52 am

Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Daryl Stout to Havok on Tue Feb 28 2023 12:50 am

I already have PeerBlock set up and running. However, for some of the ham radio traffic nets that I do, I had to disable it, as I couldn't connect to certain "reflectors" with the D-Star mode.

The nice think about peerblock is you can make a ban list of country IP's
and make a white list of a country ip that you want to pass through.
I always like it when I was running VA on xp or Windows 7.

it is still only 32bit, right? no 64?
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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: MRO to Greg Youngblood on Wed Mar 01 2023 01:11 pm

Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Greg Youngblood to Daryl Stout on Wed Mar 01 2023 04:52 am

Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Daryl Stout to Havok on Tue Feb 28 2023 12:50 am

I already have PeerBlock set up and running. However, for some of the ham radio traffic nets that I do, I had to disable it, as I couldn't connect to certain "reflectors" with the D-Star mode.

The nice think about peerblock is you can make a ban list of country IP's
and make a white list of a country ip that you want to pass through.
I always like it when I was running VA on xp or Windows 7.

it is still only 32bit, right? no 64?

Oh good. now i see it supports 64bit.
time to upgrade.
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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: MRO to Greg Youngblood on Wed Mar 01 2023 01:42 pm

it is still only 32bit, right? no 64?

That is right but then you can run 32bit on a 64 bit OS.
Just not my good old day of running 16 bit on a 64 bit OS




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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Havok to MRO on Wed Mar 01 2023 09:01 pm

Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: MRO to Greg Youngblood on Wed Mar 01 2023 01:42 pm

it is still only 32bit, right? no 64?

That is right but then you can run 32bit on a 64 bit OS.
Just not my good old day of running 16 bit on a 64 bit OS

no, you could NOT run peerblock 32 on 64bit. BUT, they have changed that. there's a 64bit version of peerblock
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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: MRO to Havok on Thu Mar 02 2023 01:52 am

no, you could NOT run peerblock 32 on 64bit. BUT, they have changed that. there's a 64bit version of peerblock

If that is so then it is a 16 bit program.

Guess I'll have to try it out my self in a VM for self knowing.


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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Havok to MRO on Thu Mar 02 2023 08:15 am

no, you could NOT run peerblock 32 on 64bit. BUT, they have changed that. there's a 64bit version of peerblock

If that is so then it is a 16 bit program.

Guess I'll have to try it out my self in a VM for self knowing.

no. there was a version of peerblock that would only run on 32bit.
it was just coded not to run on 64bit systems, you would get an error msg.
now they have upgraded it.

it's not an old dos 16bit program.
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Re: Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Wilfred van Velzen to Havok on Thu Mar 02 2023 04:35 pm

You're replying in the wrong area, and with a none existent node number!

Got ya...


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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: MRO to Havok on Thu Mar 02 2023 03:12 pm

no. there was a version of peerblock that would only run on 32bit.
it was just coded not to run on 64bit systems, you would get an error msg. now they have upgraded it.

Soounds good to me, glad someone picked up the ball, with me I never needed
the 64 bit being I was always running 16 bit doors for a bbs.

Still a good deal!


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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Havok to MRO on Thu Mar 02 2023 08:27 pm

Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: MRO to Havok on Thu Mar 02 2023 03:12 pm

no. there was a version of peerblock that would only run on 32bit.
it was just coded not to run on 64bit systems, you would get an error msg. now they have upgraded it.

Soounds good to me, glad someone picked up the ball, with me I never needed
the 64 bit being I was always running 16 bit doors for a bbs.

Still a good deal!

honestly i dont think i have a need for this on a 64bit system; i've always used to to protect my bbses that ran on a 32bit os.

i would have liked blackice defender to still be around.
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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: MRO to Havok on Fri Mar 03 2023 07:09 am

honestly i dont think i have a need for this on a 64bit system; i've always used to to protect my bbses that ran on a 32bit os.

Agreed om my Dell workstation and my laptops and when using my Dell poweredge
servers I have always used symantec endpoint protection. I used that and
peerblock on the bbs putters. But after buying a checkpoint firewall
I then installed pfSense that uses snort, pfBlocker and Squid no need
for peerblock.

Just a thought...


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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Havok to MRO on Fri Mar 03 2023 03:36 pm

Agreed om my Dell workstation and my laptops and when using my Dell poweredge
servers I have always used symantec endpoint protection. I used that and
peerblock on the bbs putters. But after buying a checkpoint firewall

endpoint is no longer being developed, right?
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Re: Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: Nick Andre to Havok on Fri Mar 03 2023 05:08 pm

This. I'm a huge fan of pfSense... does "everything".
Never needs rebooting, never nags me about updates.

Agreed Nick

I just sits and runs and runs very well...


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Re: CAPTCHA with Synchronet
By: MRO to Havok on Fri Mar 03 2023 04:36 pm

endpoint is no longer being developed, right?

No I still get daily updates, 1# they sold it to Broadcom Inc
2# or it is just another name they spit out for the same thing.






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