Bill,

Daryl, where did you find PKTDUMP?

It's on Vertrauen BBS, vert.synchro.net

With help from Digital Man (Rob Swindell - Vertrauen is his BBS), I
was able to get PKTDUMP to work. The problem I've run into now, is that
I've got 2 sets of identical outbound filenames. So, I've modified my
batchfile to check each directory created (with an FLO mailer setting)
for certain packets...and if it's found there, to move it to the
appropriate directory for Internet Rex to process.

Daryl

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Joe,

Daryl, where did you find PKTDUMP?

Yeah, I couldnt find it either.

It's on Vertrauen (Digital Man's BBS). I went ahead and added a
FILE_ID.DIZ, zipped it up, and placed it in the FIDONet Utilities area
over here as PKTDUMP.ZIP -- Rob has a bunch of good utilities on his
system. :)

And, I must complement him on the updated login.js for Synchronet. It
has helped block a ton of bots trying to connect with names like "Root", "User", "Admin", "Supervisor", etc. They keep trying, but as soon as
they enter that string which matches data in the user.can file, they get dumped!! It's almost comical to watch...and if I get bored, I can put
the numeric IP in the ip.can file.

Daryl
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Daryl Stout wrote to JOE DELAHAYE <=-

It's on Vertrauen (Digital Man's BBS). I went ahead and added a FILE_ID.DIZ, zipped it up, and placed it in the FIDONet Utilities area over here as PKTDUMP.ZIP -- Rob has a bunch of good utilities on his system. :)

I'll have to login there as a user sometime and check it out.

And, I must complement him on the updated login.js for Synchronet. It has helped block a ton of bots trying to connect with names like
"Root", "User", "Admin", "Supervisor", etc. They keep trying, but as
soon as they enter that string which matches data in the user.can file, they get dumped!! It's almost comical to watch...and if I get bored, I
can put the numeric IP in the ip.can file.

I wonder if I could link that to fail2ban on Linux and have a "sin bin" for bad logins where those IPs are locked out for a specified period of time (e.g. 1 hour), to make it more hands off.


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Re: PKTDUMP
By: Daryl Stout to BILL GORDON on Sat May 28 2016 10:58 am

Bill,

Daryl, where did you find PKTDUMP?

It's on Vertrauen BBS, vert.synchro.net

With help from Digital Man (Rob Swindell - Vertrauen is his BBS), I
was able to get PKTDUMP to work. The problem I've run into now, is that
I've got 2 sets of identical outbound filenames. So, I've modified my batchfile to check each directory created (with an FLO mailer setting)
for certain packets...and if it's found there, to move it to the
appropriate directory for Internet Rex to process.

But then the FLO files won't point the correct directory. Have you looked at the corresponding FLO files for the linked nodes? They contain the full path and filename of the bundles or packets being sent. If you move the files, then the paths in the FLO files won't be correct.

In SBBSecho v3 (in the development builds), the outbound bundles and packets are placed in the various outbound sub-directories (rather than all going to outbound and the FLOW files pointing there). It sounds like maybe you ought to upgrade to SBBSecho v3.

digital man

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Re: PKTDUMP and Login.Js
By: Daryl Stout to JOE DELAHAYE on Sun May 29 2016 06:12:00

Daryl, where did you find PKTDUMP?

Yeah, I couldnt find it either.

It's on Vertrauen (Digital Man's BBS). I went ahead and added a FILE_ID.DIZ, zipped it up, and placed it in the FIDONet Utilities area over here as PKTDUMP.ZIP -- Rob has a bunch of good utilities on his system. :)

Yeah, I knew it was there, I just couldnt find it. Rob sent a link in a later message, and now I have it as well.
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Tony,

It's on Vertrauen (Digital Man's BBS). I went ahead and added a FILE_ID.DIZ, zipped it up, and placed it in the FIDONet Utilities area over here as PKTDUMP.ZIP -- Rob has a bunch of good utilities on his system. :)

I'll have to login there as a user sometime and check it out.

He even has the old Night Owl CD-Rom collections. I had sent mine to
Sean Dennis, but apparently, one can re-download those off of the
internet.

And, I must complement him on the updated login.js for Synchronet. It has helped block a ton of bots trying to connect with names like "Root", "User", "Admin", "Supervisor", etc. They keep trying, but as soon as they enter that string which matches data in the user.can file, they get dumped!! It's almost comical to watch...and if I get bored, I can put the numeric IP in the ip.can file.

I wonder if I could link that to fail2ban on Linux and have a "sin bin" for TL>logins where those IPs are locked out for a specified period of time (e.g. 1 TL>hour), to make it more hands off.

I don't know if Synchronet has that in it or not...but I know that
VADV32 did, where you could set it for a certain time (I think the
default was 2 hours), where if an IP was in that cache, the connection
was refused.

Daryl

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Rob,

In SBBSecho v3 (in the development builds), the outbound bundles and packets DM>are placed in the various outbound sub-directories (rather than all going to DM>outbound and the FLOW files pointing there). It sounds like maybe you ought DM>upgrade to SBBSecho v3.

OK, I need a link to that then, please. Also, would I still need to
set SBBSECHO as a FLO mailer, or could I do it as an "attach mailer"
(where it goes to specific directories)??

Daryl

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Re: PKTDUMP
By: Daryl Stout to DIGITAL MAN on Mon May 30 2016 10:42 am

Rob,

In SBBSecho v3 (in the development builds), the outbound bundles and packets DM>are placed in the various outbound sub-directories (rather than all going to DM>outbound and the FLOW files pointing there). It sounds like maybe you ought DM>upgrade to SBBSecho v3.

OK, I need a link to that then, please.

SBBSecho v3 (for Windows) is included ftp://vert.synchro.net/Synchronet/sbbs_dev.zip

You can just copy the sbbsecho.exe, echocfg.exe from this archive into your "exec" directory. You'll also need sbbsecho_upgrade.js from CVS: http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/exec/sbbsecho_upgrade.js and then run "jsexec sbbsecho_upgrade.js" from your exec directory.

Also, would I still need to
set SBBSECHO as a FLO mailer, or could I do it as an "attach mailer"
(where it goes to specific directories)??

If you're using a BSO/FLO mailer, then you still want to have SBBSecho configured as such (not "attach").

digital man

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30 May 16 10:42, you wrote to DIGITAL MAN:

In SBBSecho v3 (in the development builds), the outbound bundles and
packets are placed in the various outbound sub-directories (rather
than all going to outbound and the FLOW files pointing there). It
sounds like maybe you ought upgrade to SBBSecho v3.

OK, I need a link to that then, please. Also, would I still need to
set SBBSECHO as a FLO mailer, or could I do it as an "attach mailer" (where it goes to specific directories)??

file attach is the format where there's a netmail MSG file with the FA attribute set and the attached file's name in the subject line... it sounds like you are thinking about fileboxes which was a feature introduced in some mailers... it has nothing to do with them being BSO or FA mailers... frontdoor can do them but it requires manual setup in the static queue... binkd can do them with an additional entry in the NODE line... IREX has this capability, too... IIRC, IREX can operate as a BSO mailer or as a FA mailer... it certainly
can do binkp transfers with or without fileboxes just like any other mailer ;)

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30 May 16 21:11, you wrote to Daryl Stout:

Also, would I still need to set SBBSECHO as a FLO mailer, or could I do
it as an "attach mailer" (where it goes to specific directories)??

If you're using a BSO/FLO mailer, then you still want to have SBBSecho configured as such (not "attach").

i'm pretty sure you've read my other message to daryl but i'll repeat it again... i'm fairly certain that he is used to using fileboxes... at least an outbox for his links... possibly also an inbox for them... that's probably where the stuff about copying files to certain directories is coming from...

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Mark,

i'm pretty sure you've read my other message to daryl but i'll repeat it ML>again... i'm fairly certain that he is used to using fileboxes... at least a ML>outbox for his links... possibly also an inbox for them... that's probably ML>where the stuff about copying files to certain directories is coming from...

You are correct in that.

Daryl

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Re: Re: PKTDUMP and Login.Js
By: Daryl Stout to TONY LANGDON on Mon May 30 2016 10:41 am

He even has the old Night Owl CD-Rom collections. I had sent mine to
Sean Dennis, but apparently, one can re-download those off of the
internet.

i have all the nightowl cds if anybody needs anything.
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Re: PKTDUMP

Just out of curiosity, will PKTDUMP.EXE work as a standalone program?

I tried to read a .pkt and it said it was" not a valid Win32 application". Didn't know if it needed something else to perform.

Thanks

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Re: PKTDUMP
By: Bill Gordon to Daryl Stout on Tue May 31 2016 09:58 pm

Re: PKTDUMP

Just out of curiosity, will PKTDUMP.EXE work as a standalone program?

That's the expectation, yes.

I tried to read a .pkt and it said it was" not a valid Win32 application". Didn't know if it needed something else to perform.

Hm. It is a 32-bit Windows program. It's built with new tools and no special provisions for old versions of Windows, so XP (for example) might not be able to run it as is. I could probably rebuild it with either older tool-chain or special options to make it more backwards compatible with old versions of Windows.

digital man

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I tried to read a .pkt and it said it was" not a valid Win32 appli
Didn't know if it needed something else to perform.

Hm. It is a 32-bit Windows program. It's built with new tools and no special provisions for old versions of Windows, so XP (for example) might not be able to run it as is. I could probably rebuild it with either older tool-chain or special options to make it more backwards compatible with old versions of Windows.

I only tried it on XP cause that is what I have my BBS (VADV)running on.

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Bill,

Just out of curiosity, will PKTDUMP.EXE work as a standalone program?

I tried to read a .pkt and it said it was" not a valid Win32 application". BG>Didn't know if it needed something else to perform.

You have to run it from the command prompt under Windows (I'm using
Windows 7 32-bit, and Microsoft is aggressively trying to get me to
upgrade to Windows 10).

I put PKTDUMP into C:\PKTDUMP -- then unzip the bundle file into a
temporary directory. Then, the command line is:

c:\pktdump\pktdump filename.pkt

You'll see a list of messages, with the nodes of origination and
destination.

Then, I move the original file to its outbound directory.

Daryl

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Bill,

I only tried it on XP cause that is what I have my BBS (VADV)running on.

I don't know if it works under XP, but I do know it works under
Windows 7 32-bit (which is what I'm running SBBS under).

Daryl
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Re: PKTDUMP
By: Daryl Stout to BILL GORDON on Wed Jun 01 2016 10:59 am

Bill,

Just out of curiosity, will PKTDUMP.EXE work as a standalone program?

I tried to read a .pkt and it said it was" not a valid Win32 application". BG>Didn't know if it needed something else to perform.

You have to run it from the command prompt under Windows (I'm using Windows 7 32-bit, and Microsoft is aggressively trying to get me to
upgrade to Windows 10).

I put PKTDUMP into C:\PKTDUMP -- then unzip the bundle file into a temporary directory. Then, the command line is:

c:\pktdump\pktdump filename.pkt

You'll see a list of messages, with the nodes of origination and destination.

Then, I move the original file to its outbound directory.

If you do that (move the file), then the FLO files will no longer point to the file. You should not do that.

digital man

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Re: PKTDUMP

I put PKTDUMP into C:\PKTDUMP -- then unzip the bundle file into a temporary directory. Then, the command line is:

c:\pktdump\pktdump filename.pkt

All I found was PKTDUMP.EXE, not a zip file of any kind

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Re: PKTDUMP
By: Bill Gordon to Daryl Stout on Wed Jun 01 2016 05:39 pm

Re: PKTDUMP

I put PKTDUMP into C:\PKTDUMP -- then unzip the bundle file into a temporary directory. Then, the command line is:

c:\pktdump\pktdump filename.pkt

All I found was PKTDUMP.EXE, not a zip file of any kind

He's talking about unzipping the FTN bundle (e.g. *.SU0,*.FR0) files.

digital man

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Rob,

If you do that (move the file), then the FLO files will no longer point to t DM>file. You should not do that.

So, then I should set SBBSECHO to an attach mailer??

Daryl

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Bill,

All I found was PKTDUMP.EXE, not a zip file of any kind

That's all that Rob has on his system. I put it in a ZIP file over
here, but it's the same program. Over here, it's in the FIDONet
Utilities area.

Daryl

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Re: PKTDUMP
By: Daryl Stout to DIGITAL MAN on Wed Jun 01 2016 20:16:00

If you do that (move the file), then the FLO files will no longer
point

to t DM>file. You should not do that.

So, then I should set SBBSECHO to an attach mailer??

No, you should configure the outbound to whatever you want to be the outbound. Also make sure that whatever mailer you use, uses the same directory as the tosser, for both inbound and outbound.
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01 Jun 16 20:16, you wrote to DIGITAL MAN:

If you do that (move the file), then the FLO files will no longer
point to t file. You should not do that.

So, then I should set SBBSECHO to an attach mailer??

fileboxes are different than regular BSO or regular file attach... if you move the PKTs and bundles under FA mailer then the MSG files they are attached to won't be right... fileboxes are something else entirely that was grafted on, with good results, to BSO and FA mailers... some mail tossers can toss from inbound fileboxes... some can also scan mail out and place the PKTs and/or bundles in outbound fileboxes... you don't have to use fileboxes at all...

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Re: PKTDUMP
By: Daryl Stout to DIGITAL MAN on Wed Jun 01 2016 08:16 pm

Rob,

If you do that (move the file), then the FLO files will no longer point to t DM>file. You should not do that.

So, then I should set SBBSECHO to an attach mailer??

Only if you're using an attach-style mailer.

digital man

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