Does anyone else have the problem of MRC crashing synchronet after being connected to MRC for an hour or less? I have 3 different windows 10 machines I have tested this on and it happens on each of them.
I have been using a-nets MRC chatroom to chat with friends instead.
Does anyone else have the problem of MRC crashing synchronet after being connected to MRC for an hour or less? I have 3 different windows 10 machines I have tested this on and it happens on each of them. I am running synchronet 3.19b.
Re: MRC crashes SBBSCTRL after 50 minutes of connect time
By: Rixter to All on Wed Aug 27 2025 08:59 am
Not here, no. I use MRC myself roughly once a week or so, and I also have a user here who famously stays connected, idling for hours or days at a time, and I can't say I've ever experienced SBBSCTRL completely crasing from it.
If you haven't already, check your /sbbs/data/errors.log file to see if any errors are getting logged around the times of the crashes.
Which of his boards are you using? Stingray runs both Mystic and Sync (a couple different ones in fact), and I know he's been in MRC for hours at a time on all of them.
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Re: MRC crashes SBBSCTRL after 50 minutes of connect time
By: Rixter to All on Wed Aug 27 2025 08:59 am
First step: upgrade to Synchronet v3.20 or later. That may not fix *that* issue, but it'll fix others, at minimum. And it just might fix that issue.
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Re: MRC crashes SBBSCTRL after 50 minutes of connect time
By: Rixter to All on Wed Aug 27 2025 08:59 am
Not here, no. I use MRC myself roughly once a week or so, and I also have a user here who famously stays connected, idling for hours or days at a time, and I can't say I've ever experienced SBBSCTRL completely crasing from it.
If you haven't already, check your /sbbs/data/errors.log file to see if any errors are getting logged around the times of the crashes.
Which of his boards are you using? Stingray runs both Mystic and Sync (a couple different ones in fact), and I know he's been in MRC for hours at a time on all of them.
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Wed Aug 27, 08:33:56 2025 master /a2a9c027 srvc 0000 MRC-Connector Invalid message from client: GET/HTTP/1.1
Re: MRC crashes SBBSCTRL after 50 minutes of connect time
By: Rixter to Codefenix on Wed Aug 27 2025 07:18 pm
This error means you got a HTTP request attempt on port 5000/5001. It means those ports are open to the outside on your server, and some port scanner probably tried accessing them, causing the connector service to log the error.
Ports 5000/5001 shouldn't be open (nor do they need to be for MRC to work), so I suggest fixing this on your router and/or firewall settings.
That said, I doubt this what's causing your SBBSCTRL to crash. Usually "invalid message" just means the incoming message didn't look like an actual MRC message, but it's otherwise harmless.
Are you absolutely certain the crashes happen when you're running mrc-client? Have you tried leaving yourself idle at, say, the main menu for an hour?
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Rixter wrote to All <=-
Does anyone else have the problem of MRC crashing synchronet after
being connected to MRC for an hour or less? I have 3 different windows
10 machines I have tested this on and it happens on each of them.
Re: MRC crashes SBBSCTRL after 50 minutes of connect timetelnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
By: Rixter to Codefenix on Wed Aug 27 2025 07:18 pm
... I have noticed this on 3 unique machines, all running windows
10 with the ntdvmx64 patch. Maybe the patch is the culprit? I do not think MRC needs that though to run. But, maybe it is causing a conflict.
I'm running 32-bit Windows 10, binaries a month or so old, and not had
a problem. I've left MRC running for a couple of hours in the
background without a crash.
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Re: MRC crashes SBBSCTRL after 50 minutes of connect time
By: Rixter to Codefenix on Thu Aug 28 2025 07:51 am
I created a new account on your BBS at ricksbbs.synchro.net and entered MRC. I've been mostly idle but occasionally chatting in the lobby for over 2 hours now, and the board is still up. Can see others in the lobby chatting away.
So... looks like it's running fine?
I'm thinking something else entirely is leading to the crashes. Seems doubtful that MRC has anything to do with it at all, based on my own observations sitting in your MRC lobby.
I would taking Digital Man's advice and upgrade from v3.19 to v3.20 when you get a chance.
And close ports 5000 and 5001. You neither need nor want those open to the outside.
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