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Schematics and Characteristics

The Eye Of The Beholder is a digital ship of the line, BBS-capable, and operating -from Finnish waters- as an independent privateer under the FidoNet colors.

Blueprint

Its main characteristics are:

Identification

  • Ship's Name: Eye Of The Beholder BBS1
  • Alternative names: "EOTB BBS", "EOTB", "BeholderBBS" or "Beholder"
  • Registry: 2:343/107@fidonet2
  • Captain: Kishpa, the SysOp3.
  • Launched: February 22nd, 2002
  • Harbor of operations: Badalona and Overseas
  • Safe Harbor: The Free Bay
  • Status: Active and Online

Technical

  • Shipyard: KVM/QEMU4.
  • Construction materials: Debian GNU/Linux Stable5 64bit
  • Gun decks: 4 vCPU
  • Sailing rig: 8 GB RAM
  • Onboard technology: BBBS 4.10 Toy-76 Linux 64bit
  • Cruising speed: 1 GBit with IPv4/IPv6 connectivity
  • Cargo hold: 5 TB (online, shared with the BBS)
  • Buried on islands: 20 TB (offline, shared with the BBS)
  • Deck capacity7: 995 crew members
  • Cabin capacity8: Virtually unlimited
  • Shipyard: KVM/QEMU4.
  • Construction materials: Debian GNU/Linux Stable5 64bit
  • Gun decks: 4 vCPU
  • Sailing rig: 8 GB RAM
  • Onboard technology: Synchronet BBS 3.2210 Linux 64bit
  • Cruising speed: 1 GBit with IPv4/IPv6 connectivity
  • Cargo hold: 5 TB (online)
  • Buried on islands: 20 TB (offline)
  • Deck capacity7: 4 crew members (in testing)
  • Cabin capacity8: Virtually unlimited

Functional Specs

Services:

  • Netmail and Echomail areas, local and distributed, online and offline
  • Thematic file bases
  • Full FidoNet support: Mail and file access and distribution9

Access:

  • WEB (http/https).
  • TELNET (telnet/stelnet)
  • FTP (ftp/ftps)
  • BINKP (binkp/binkps)

Services:

  • Netmail and Echomail areas, local and distributed, online and offline
  • Thematic file bases
  • Online games (doors)

Access:

  • WEB (http/https)
  • WEB BBS (http/https*)
  • TELNET (telnet/stelnet)
  • FTP (ftp/ftps)
  • SSH (ssh)
  • NEWS (nntp/nntps)
  • IRC (irc/ircs)

  1. The name refers to the namesake game by Westwood Studios, not the Metallica song. ↩

  2. FidoNet Nodelist: Zone 2 (Europe), Region 34 (Spain), Net 3 (Catalonia), Node 107 (EOTB). ↩

  3. System Operator. ↩

  4. A virtualization and emulation system. ↩↩

  5. Currently, Debian 13. ↩↩

  6. https://www.bbbs.net/ ↩

  7. Total concurrent users (regardless of the connection method). ↩↩

  8. Total registered users. ↩↩

  9. Full capacity to connect third-party systems to the FidoNet distribution network as a point or as a node as well. ↩

  10. https://synchro.net/ ↩