TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A43   
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      Hello everybody!   
      
   I seem to have an ongoing problem. A problem that looks to occur on a daily    
   basis   
   of late. BBBS presents me with:   
      
   "400 Sorry, No more free nodes, Try again later."   
      
   I have been using Iptables to try to manage the "Bot" connection attempts and    
   it   
   has helped. But lately by the end of the day BBBS here is unreachable. I have   
   started to restart the BBBS PC on a daily basis which has made BBBS available   
   again. But sadly only for the day as by days end BBBS is out of free nodes    
   again.   
      
   This has been a problem for BBBS for awhile now. I have tried several things to   
   try to eliminate or at least reduce the problem. But sadly the issue remains.   
   I currently have 22 nodes available to BBBS. and the problem looks to exist   
   regardless of service/port used. As http, Telnet, and BinkP are all effected.   
      
   So.. A couple questions. Is there a way to instruct BBBS to flush/close all    
   open   
   connections without restarting the PC? (I know, not a solution)   
      
   Is there a more effective way to manage and eliminate spam/bot connections?   
      
      
   Jeff   
      
      
   --- Mystic v1.12 A43 (2019/03/02) GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20170303   
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