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>   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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Codefenix,
 I can leave it open to the IBBS page for days watching people on other BBSs
log in and out, IRC for days, the same for the main menu. I will open a web
page in a message group like fidonet mail area and see what happens after a few
hours, the same on the telnet ansi side. So far only the MRC is causing the
synchronet to fail and restartoncrash.exe to catch this failure, clear the on
screen dialogue pop up message, and restart synchronet. 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. A true mystery. Have a great day Codefenix.

Rixter
telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080

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