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Most systems accept pure-decimal IP addresses. So probably you could have a modem emulator that takes such an IP address as a phone number ala ATDT2130706433 -
by 0x0 10y ago
Most systems accept pure-decimal IP addresses. So probably you could have a modem emulator that takes such an IP address as a phone number ala ATDT2130706433 - try "ping 2130706433" and see for yourself :)
- digi_owl 10y agoThe larger problem there is that these days you likely have multiple servers pr exposed address. Thus when a client connects to one of those servers it includes the domain in the request or some such (the actual terminology escapes me at the moment).
- 0x0 10y agoYou're thinking about virtualhosts (or for SSL/TLS/HTTPS, "SNI" (server name indication)). But classic telnet does not support this, so for the standard encrypted BBS telnet case this wouldn't help.
- simcop2387 10y agoI thought about that but I'm not sure how flexible the old software is. If it can take arbitrary numbers then yea that'd be the way to do it.