• GameNet outbound

    From Al@VERT/TRMB to Digital Man on Saturday, June 16, 2018 07:27:18
    Hello Digital Man,

    I am testing a new QWK/FTN network. The QWK side is working as expected but FTN outbounds are giving me an error.

    I assigned myself an FTN node and sent a message to Areafix at the FTN hub. The message was received and processed by Areafix and 00010005.cut was placed in the outbound and binkit is called to send the reply but I get this error on the console..

    Running timed event: BINKOUT
    BinkIT/2.4 invoked with options:
    Unexpected file path '/sbbs/fido/outbound/00010005.cut' expected '/sbbs/fido/outbound.032/00010005.cut'

    Zone 32 is the only zone configured in this instance of sbbs and sbbsecho. It looks like I have missed something in the zone config.. but I don't see it.

    Any help would be appreciated!

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From mark lewis@VERT to Al on Saturday, June 16, 2018 15:42:28
    On 2018 Jun 16 07:27:18, you wrote to Digital Man:

    Running timed event: BINKOUT
    BinkIT/2.4 invoked with options:
    Unexpected file path '/sbbs/fido/outbound/00010005.cut' expected '/sbbs/fido/outbound.032/00010005.cut'

    Zone 32 is the only zone configured in this instance of sbbs and sbbsecho. It looks like I have missed something in the zone config.. but I don't see it.

    ummm... those numbers on the outbound are like the ones making the file name...
    they are in hex...

    032 hex == 50 decimal

    so is that really your FTN Zone50?


    HINT: in linux, with bash, you can do this...

    printf "%d\n" 0x032

    and to go the other way, decimal to hex...

    printf "%x\n" 50


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to mark lewis on Saturday, June 16, 2018 13:40:40
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: mark lewis to Al on Sat Jun 16 2018 03:42 pm

    so is that really your FTN Zone50?

    No, it is zone 32.

    I don't know what changed but I did get the netmail here a few hours later.

    HINT: in linux, with bash, you can do this...

    printf "%d\n" 0x032

    and to go the other way, decimal to hex...

    printf "%x\n" 50

    Thanks!

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From mark lewis@VERT to Al on Saturday, June 16, 2018 17:17:48
    On 2018 Jun 16 13:40:40, you wrote to me:

    so is that really your FTN Zone50?

    No, it is zone 32.

    maybe binkit does it differently? i dunno but if other FTN BSO tools are used, there will be problems with the wrong directory...

    I don't know what changed but I did get the netmail here a few hours later.

    i was only looking at the directory extension and your statement about which zone it is...

    HINT: in linux, with bash, you can do this...

    printf "%d\n" 0x032

    and to go the other way, decimal to hex...

    printf "%x\n" 50

    Thanks!

    you're welcome... here's another one which does net/node both ways...


    printf "%04x%04x\n" 3634 12
    0e32000c

    hexaddr='0e32000c'; printf "%d/%d\n" 0x${hexaddr:0:4} 0x${hexaddr:4:4}
    3634/12


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to mark lewis on Saturday, June 16, 2018 14:15:49
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Al to mark lewis on Sat Jun 16 2018 01:40 pm

    I don't know what changed but I did get the netmail here a few hours later.

    And now I am watching that terminal it is giving the same unexpected path error. Maybe I will get that netmail shortly.. I don't understand.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Digital Man on Saturday, June 16, 2018 14:55:39
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Al to Digital Man on Sat Jun 16 2018 07:27 am

    Running timed event: BINKOUT
    BinkIT/2.4 invoked with options:
    Unexpected file path '/sbbs/fido/outbound/00010005.cut' expected '/sbbs/fido/outbound.032/00010005.cut'

    I can poll the hub (32:1/10 in this case) and pick up mail.

    I only see the above unexpected file path when binkout or binkpoll is run on the hub.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Al on Sunday, June 17, 2018 01:14:19
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Al to Digital Man on Sat Jun 16 2018 07:27 am

    Hello Digital Man,

    I am testing a new QWK/FTN network. The QWK side is working as expected but FTN outbounds are giving me an error.

    I assigned myself an FTN node and sent a message to Areafix at the FTN hub. The message was received and processed by Areafix and 00010005.cut was placed in the outbound and binkit is called to send the reply but I get this error on the console..

    Running timed event: BINKOUT
    BinkIT/2.4 invoked with options:
    Unexpected file path '/sbbs/fido/outbound/00010005.cut' expected '/sbbs/fido/outbound.032/00010005.cut'

    Zone 32 is the only zone configured in this instance of sbbs and sbbsecho. It looks like I have missed something in the zone config.. but I don't see it.

    I know Mark already pointed it out, but outbound.032 should be for Zone 50 files (not Zone 32).

    Anyway, it looks like BinkIT and SBBSecho don't agree on what the default/local zone is.

    digital man

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Digital Man on Sunday, June 17, 2018 01:58:10
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Digital Man to Al on Sun Jun 17 2018 01:14 am

    I know Mark already pointed it out, but outbound.032 should be for Zone 50 files (not Zone 32).

    The outbound.032 directory doesn't exist. There is only an outbound directory.

    Anyway, it looks like BinkIT and SBBSecho don't agree on what the default/local zone is.

    It seems so. Nodes can poll and pick up their mail no problem but the hub can't deliver mail on BINKOUT or BINKPOLL.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Al on Sunday, June 17, 2018 12:16:15
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Al to Digital Man on Sun Jun 17 2018 01:58 am

    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Digital Man to Al on Sun Jun 17 2018 01:14 am

    I know Mark already pointed it out, but outbound.032 should be for Zone 50 files (not Zone 32).

    The outbound.032 directory doesn't exist. There is only an outbound directory.

    Anyway, it looks like BinkIT and SBBSecho don't agree on what the default/local zone is.

    It seems so. Nodes can poll and pick up their mail no problem but the hub can't deliver mail on BINKOUT or BINKPOLL.

    Do you have an address of 50:*/* used somewhere?

    digital man

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Digital Man on Sunday, June 17, 2018 12:42:28
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Digital Man to Al on Sun Jun 17 2018 12:16 pm

    It seems so. Nodes can poll and pick up their mail no problem but the
    hub can't deliver mail on BINKOUT or BINKPOLL.

    Do you have an address of 50:*/* used somewhere?

    No, unless I entered a typo somewhere. I have been looking at that config over the last little bit and I don't see anything like that.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Al on Sunday, June 17, 2018 12:52:21
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Al to Digital Man on Sun Jun 17 2018 12:42 pm

    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Digital Man to Al on Sun Jun 17 2018 12:16 pm

    It seems so. Nodes can poll and pick up their mail no problem but the
    hub can't deliver mail on BINKOUT or BINKPOLL.

    Do you have an address of 50:*/* used somewhere?

    No, unless I entered a typo somewhere. I have been looking at that config over the last little bit and I don't see anything like that.

    I just committed what looks like a fix to a function exec/load/fido.js. Let me know if that helps with your problem or not.

    digital man

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to Digital Man on Sunday, June 17, 2018 13:37:52
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Digital Man to Al on Sun Jun 17 2018 12:52 pm

    I just committed what looks like a fix to a function exec/load/fido.js. Let me know if that helps with your problem or not.

    Yes, I just saw the hub crash outbound to a node. Thanks.. :)

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Al on Sunday, June 17, 2018 17:25:40
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Al to Digital Man on Sun Jun 17 2018 01:37 pm

    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: Digital Man to Al on Sun Jun 17 2018 12:52 pm

    I just committed what looks like a fix to a function exec/load/fido.js. Let me know if that helps with your problem or not.

    Yes, I just saw the hub crash outbound to a node. Thanks.. :)

    Okay, cool. It was kind of a shot in the dark as I'm not sure how that code path gets invoked (I didn't write it), but it seemed like a clear bug to me.

    digital man

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  • From mark lewis@VERT to Digital Man on Monday, June 18, 2018 11:06:54
    On 2018 Jun 17 01:14:18, you wrote to Al:

    BinkIT/2.4 invoked with options:
    Unexpected file path '/sbbs/fido/outbound/00010005.cut' expected
    '/sbbs/fido/outbound.032/00010005.cut'

    Zone 32 is the only zone configured in this instance of sbbs and
    sbbsecho. It looks like I have missed something in the zone config.. but
    I don't see it.

    I know Mark already pointed it out, but outbound.032 should be for Zone 50 files (not Zone 32).

    :)

    Anyway, it looks like BinkIT and SBBSecho don't agree on what the default/local zone is.

    i hadn't thought about that but it is a possibility... i always enter my FTN addresses in the same order in all of my FTN software... even those that don't do BSO...

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  • From mark lewis@VERT to Al on Monday, June 18, 2018 11:08:22
    On 2018 Jun 17 01:58:10, you wrote to Digital Man:

    I know Mark already pointed it out, but outbound.032 should be for
    Zone 50 files (not Zone 32).

    The outbound.032 directory doesn't exist. There is only an outbound directory.

    some mail tossers will create "other than home zone" directories when they are needed... then some mailers will delete them when they are empty and no longer needed...

    Anyway, it looks like BinkIT and SBBSecho don't agree on what the
    default/local zone is.

    It seems so. Nodes can poll and pick up their mail no problem but the
    hub can't deliver mail on BINKOUT or BINKPOLL.

    if i have the right "Al", and i think i do, then here's what your mailer is showing...

    + 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] call to 1:153/757@fidonet
    18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] trying trmb.ca [75.155.238.60]...
    18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] connected
    + 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] outgoing session with trmb.ca:24554 [75.155.238.60]
    - 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] OPT CRAM-MD5-4e9edc8ab67c00fed49e9aac793de3d2 CRYPT
    + 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] Remote requests MD mode
    + 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] Remote requests CRYPT mode
    - 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] SYS The Rusty MailBox
    - 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] ZYZ Alan Ianson
    - 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] LOC Penticton, BC Canada
    - 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
    - 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] TIME Mon Jun 18 2018 08:12:07 GMT-0700 (PDT)
    - 18 Jun 11:12:08 [20482] VER BinkIT/2.4,JSBinkP/1.106,sbbs3.17a/Linux binkp/1.1
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] addr: 1:153/757@fidonet
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] addr: 11:1/201@wwivftn (n/a or busy)
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] addr: 21:4/106@fsxnet (n/a or busy)
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] addr: 24:240/1@sportnet (n/a or busy)
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] addr: 24:240/0@sportnet (n/a or busy)
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] addr: 24:240/2@sportnet (n/a or busy)
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] addr: 32:1/5@gamenet (n/a or busy)
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] addr: 44:250/0@dorenet (n/a or busy)
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] addr: 316:403/5@whispnet (n/a or busy)
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] addr: 637:1/104@happynet (n/a or busy)
    + 18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] done (to 1:153/757@fidonet, OK, S/R: 0/0 (0/0 bytes))
    18 Jun 11:12:09 [20482] session closed, quitting...
    18 Jun 11:12:09 [201] rc(20482)=0

    make sure you have your addresses in your tosser listed in the same order... if
    you add more nets and you are manually sorting them in zone order, make sure you adjust all your other software that is using the BSO, too...


    FWIW: i show Z32 as being HTMLNET and GAMENET... GAMENET coming from the entry above... there is/was a GAMESNET using Z144 and a GMSNET (which could be an abbreviated GAMESNET) using 145... i don't find a Z50 in any of my connections since 20150101...



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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to mark lewis on Monday, June 18, 2018 21:23:36
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: mark lewis to Al on Mon Jun 18 2018 11:08 am

    some mail tossers will create "other than home zone" directories when they are needed... then some mailers will delete them when they are empty and no longer needed...

    On my own BBS the outbound directory is outbound.020. Digital Man has updated fido.js and now that node is able to crash out mail with no problem.

    if i have the right "Al", and i think i do, then here's what your mailer is showing...

    Yep, that is me. That is my BBS though, the GameNet hub is run on one of marisag's synchronetbbs.org servers at gamenet.synchronetbbs.org.

    make sure you have your addresses in your tosser listed in the same order... if you add more nets and you are manually sorting them in zone order, make sure you adjust all your other software that is using the BSO, too...

    If I'm not mistaken BinkIT and SBBSecho/Synchronet all get their config from the same place, sbbsecho.ini for the most part and I think the list of AKAs comes from Synchronets config.

    It makes it quite simple to setup a mailer with synchronet.. :)

    FWIW: i show Z32 as being HTMLNET and GAMENET... GAMENET coming from the entry above... there is/was a GAMESNET using Z144 and a GMSNET (which could be an abbreviated GAMESNET) using 145... i don't find a Z50 in any of my connections since 20150101...

    I struggled a bit trying to come up with a free zone to use. I hope that Z32 is not in use by any other networks.

    NuSkooler has a google sheet on the web titled FTN Networks is one of the places I looked at.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From mark lewis@VERT to Al on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 08:43:28
    On 2018 Jun 18 21:23:36, you wrote to me:

    FWIW: i show Z32 as being HTMLNET and GAMENET... GAMENET coming from
    the entry above... there is/was a GAMESNET using Z144 and a GMSNET
    (which could be an abbreviated GAMESNET) using 145... i don't find a
    Z50 in any of my connections since 20150101...

    I struggled a bit trying to come up with a free zone to use. I hope
    that Z32 is not in use by any other networks.

    hehehe, i just pointed out that it is used by HTMLNET but i don't know anything
    about it or if it is even still around...

    NuSkooler has a google sheet on the web titled FTN Networks is one of
    the places I looked at.

    never heard of it... don't even see anything similar in my first 100 search results... i finally found something mentioning nuskooler over on l33t.codes but no list of othernets...

    so anyway, i use a script that grabs all the "addr:" lines from binkd log files... it cuts them up and feeds them through tr, awk, sort, uniq and finally
    sed... i can't figure out if i want the final output to be alphabetical by domain or numerical by zone... either way, the list also makes it easy to see that some mailers were misconfigured at some point and some were using a domain
    name that was larger than eight characters... they're easily seen because their
    entry is pushed over... eight characters because that's all the space allocated
    for the domain name in the PKT header...

    i think it is also interesting that when faced with only eight character spaces, so many are wasting them by adding "net" onto the name... yeah, sure, fidonet was the first but its name was around long before 5D PKT capabilities were invented... even with only five usable character spaces, that's over 60000000 possible combinations using just the letters and numbers...

    one last thought is how no one seems to want to use zone numbers over 999... in
    the BSO format, the hex zone extension on the outbound directories can go up to
    FFF which is 4095 so four digit zones up to 4095 are perfectly fine... my script allows for five digits for zone, net, node, and point and while technically wrong, it works fine :)

    so here's the list my script generates from my binkd log files... some obvious errors have already been edited out (eg: NETMAIL, ECHOMAIL, LOCAL used as domains for zone 1, fidonet being shown with zones outside the allocated 1-6)... if anyone has any clarifying information, it would be handy to have... i used the list to populate my 5D binkd.conf with domain and alias-for lines (plus created the various outbound directories) so maybe, just maybe, i won't see any more with fidonet using some weird zone number... i doubt it'll work but i did it anyway :lol:


    ==== Begin "FTNdomains" ====
    fidonet 1
    fidonet 2
    fidonet 3
    fidonet 4
    fidonet 5
    fidonet 6
    familynet 8
    fmlynet 8
    bbs.afterhours.com 9
    survnet 9
    virnet 9
    winsnet 9
    league10 10
    league10.org 10
    wwivftn 11
    zyxelnet 16
    nazznet 19
    fsxnet 21
    usenet 21
    zone21 21
    sportnet 24
    sportsnet 24
    billnet 25
    choicfdn 30
    gamenet 32
    htmlnet 32
    advnet 33
    amiganet 39
    cybernet 40
    sfnet 42
    unionnet 42
    dorenet 44
    beerme 45
    agoranet 46
    gatornet 57
    tqmradio 69
    scinet 77
    retronet 80
    anet 92
    zenet 92
    linuxnet 110
    stn 111
    stnnet 111
    sysop 111
    pascal-net 115
    pascalnet 115
    pascalnt 115
    pasnet 115
    gamesnet 144
    gmsnet 145
    ezynet 151
    battle 169
    battlenet 169
    battlnet 169
    dbnet 201
    vqnet 220
    fidode 242
    pinet 314
    whisper 316
    whispernet 316
    whispnet 316
    whsipern 316
    potsnet 337
    combatnet 411
    combatnt 411
    vkradio 423
    vkradio 432
    ilink 454
    justa 510
    justanet 510
    justaxnet 510
    justxnet 510
    micronet 510
    justaxnet 539
    micronet 618
    happynet 637
    vqnet 690
    spooknet 700
    dovenet 723
    xnet 777
    rdwxnet 801
    rmininet 900
    dixie 901
    dixienet 901
    zeronet 911
    dsdsnet 999
    usenet 999
    ==== End "FTNdomains-edited" ====


    if anyone's curious, here's the (updated) script i've been using...


    ==== Begin "GetFTNDomainsFromBinkdLogs" ====
    egrep -ho -e "addr: [0-9]{1,5}:[0-9]{1,5}/[0-9]{1,5}(\.[0-9]{1,5})?@.*" \ bd$1*.log | cut -d " " -f 2 | awk '{split($1,a,":"); split(a[2],b,"@"); \ printf "%-8s =%5s\n", b[2], a[1]}' | tr [:upper:] [:lower:] | \
    sort -t "=" -k 2.1bn,2 -k 1.1bd,1 | uniq -i | sed 's/=//g' > FTNdomains
    ==== End "getdomains" ====


    yes, that's a one-liner... fairly long but a one-liner none the less... if you want the output to be in sorted alphabetical order, reverse the two "-k" options in the sort section...

    -k 2.1bn,2 -k 1.1bd,1 (numerical sort by zone number)
    -k 1.1bd,1 -k 2.1bn,2 (alphabetical sort by domain name)


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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to mark lewis on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 10:10:00
    On 06-19-18 08:43, mark lewis wrote to Al <=-

    hehehe, i just pointed out that it is used by HTMLNET but i don't know anything about it or if it is even still around...

    Good question. :)

    NuSkooler has a google sheet on the web titled FTN Networks is one of
    the places I looked at.

    never heard of it... don't even see anything similar in my first 100 search results... i finally found something mentioning nuskooler over
    on l33t.codes but no list of othernets...

    Would be interested to see your full search results. Sounds like you have a good way of seeing what's out in the wild. :)

    so anyway, i use a script that grabs all the "addr:" lines from binkd
    log files... it cuts them up and feeds them through tr, awk, sort, uniq and finally sed... i can't figure out if i want the final output to be alphabetical by domain or numerical by zone... either way, the list
    also makes it easy to see that some mailers were misconfigured at some point and some were using a domain name that was larger than eight characters... they're easily seen because their entry is pushed over... eight characters because that's all the space allocated for the domain name in the PKT header...

    Any chance of getting a copy of that script? Oh, you posted it below, thanks! :)

    i think it is also interesting that when faced with only eight
    character spaces, so many are wasting them by adding "net" onto the name... yeah, sure, fidonet was the first but its name was around long before 5D PKT capabilities were invented... even with only five usable character spaces, that's over 60000000 possible combinations using just the letters and numbers...

    Well, I'm one who doesn't add "net" on my domain. It's simply "vkradio". :)

    one last thought is how no one seems to want to use zone numbers over 999... in the BSO format, the hex zone extension on the outbound directories can go up to FFF which is 4095 so four digit zones up to
    4095 are perfectly fine... my script allows for five digits for zone,
    net, node, and point and while technically wrong, it works fine :)

    I thought so, might have to start a trend there. Yeah I'm aware of nothing over 999. I chose 432 for VKradio, because 432.100 MHz is the 70cm SSB calling frequency around Australia (and I think many other countries). I chould have chosen 1296 (for 23cm).

    so here's the list my script generates from my binkd log files... some obvious errors have already been edited out (eg: NETMAIL, ECHOMAIL,
    LOCAL used as domains for zone 1, fidonet being shown with zones
    outside the allocated 1-6)... if anyone has any clarifying information,
    it would be handy to have... i used the list to populate my 5D
    binkd.conf with domain and alias-for lines (plus created the various outbound directories) so maybe, just maybe, i won't see any more with fidonet using some weird zone number... i doubt it'll work but i did it anyway :lol:

    I can clarify some (see comments in brackets)


    usenet 21 (I'd say this is fsxnet, which has its own Usenet feed) vkradio 423 (this one is a typo, one of my downlinks messed up their
    mailer config).


    if anyone's curious, here's the (updated) script i've been using...

    Haha you can ignore my request, thanks! :D :)


    ==== Begin "GetFTNDomainsFromBinkdLogs" ====
    <snip>

    I'll try that on my system, as I run binkd.

    Hmm, interesting, here's my output. Someone has created a 4 digit zone, by the looks of it. :)

    fidonet 1
    fidonet 2
    fidonet 3
    fmlynet 8
    survnet 9
    araknet 10
    wwivftn 11
    zyxelnet 18
    fsxnet 21
    usenet 21
    sportnet 24
    choicfdn 30
    gamenet 32
    advnet 33
    amiganet 39
    cybernet 40
    sfnet 42
    dorenet 44
    agoranet 46
    gatornet 57
    retronet 80
    zenet 92
    stn 111
    gmsnet 145
    battlnet 169
    pinet 314
    whispnet 316
    combatnt 411
    vkradio 432
    justanet 510
    micronet 618
    happynet 637
    spooknet 700
    fishnet 701
    cscnet 719
    dovenet 723
    xnet 777
    rdwxnet 801
    rmininet 900
    quartz 2547



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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to mark lewis on Tuesday, June 19, 2018 19:01:45
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: mark lewis to Al on Tue Jun 19 2018 08:43 am

    NuSkooler has a google sheet on the web titled FTN Networks is one
    of the places I looked at.

    never heard of it... don't even see anything similar in my first 100 search results... i finally found something mentioning nuskooler over on l33t.codes but no list of othernets...

    This is the bookmark I saved in firefox.

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17pmf7cS9ocU99Rm6qlJD_OncqmbDI5Qj8Yw99A5 bgVc/edit#gid=0

    I'm not sure if there is another url for that page.

    Ttyl :-),
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  • From mark lewis@VERT to Tony Langdon on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 12:03:04
    On 2018 Jun 20 10:10:00, you wrote to me:

    NuSkooler has a google sheet on the web titled FTN Networks is one
    of the places I looked at.

    never heard of it... don't even see anything similar in my first 100
    search results... i finally found something mentioning nuskooler over
    on l33t.codes but no list of othernets...

    Would be interested to see your full search results. Sounds like you
    have a good way of seeing what's out in the wild. :)

    just standard google-fu but i also set google to return 100 results (the maximum) per page instead of just 10... then i only need to scroll down the page to maybe find what i hope to find...

    so here's the list my script generates from my binkd log files...
    some obvious errors have already been edited out (eg: NETMAIL,
    ECHOMAIL, LOCAL used as domains for zone 1, fidonet being shown with
    zones outside the allocated 1-6)... if anyone has any clarifying
    information, it would be handy to have... i used the list to populate
    my 5D binkd.conf with domain and alias-for lines (plus created the
    various outbound directories) so maybe, just maybe, i won't see any
    more with fidonet using some weird zone number... i doubt it'll work
    but i did it anyway :lol:

    I can clarify some (see comments in brackets)


    usenet 21 (I'd say this is fsxnet, which has its own Usenet feed)
    vkradio 423 (this one is a typo, one of my downlinks messed up
    their mailer config).

    thanks... so i guess the couple of "usenet" domains i saw are erroneous, too...
    i've fixed the vkradio as Z432 in my config... i even went trudging through the
    OTHERNETS echo trying to verify which zone is the zone for some of these domains... only one lists the zone in their advertising... maybe two... none of
    the others say anything about which zone(s) they are using...

    ==== Begin "GetFTNDomainsFromBinkdLogs" ====
    <snip>

    I'll try that on my system, as I run binkd.

    yeah, as i noted, i ran it across all of the binkd logs i have since 2015...

    Hmm, interesting, here's my output. Someone has created a 4 digit
    zone, by the looks of it. :)

    yup... that's a private net i've been operating since some time in the '90s... not too shabby a list you have there ;)


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  • From mark lewis@VERT to Al on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 12:18:44
    On 2018 Jun 19 19:01:44, you wrote to me:

    NuSkooler has a google sheet on the web titled FTN Networks is one
    of the places I looked at.

    never heard of it... don't even see anything similar in my first 100
    search results... i finally found something mentioning nuskooler over
    on l33t.codes but no list of othernets...

    This is the bookmark I saved in firefox.

    thanks... i'll have to see if it works once i glue it back together...

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17pmf7cS9ocU99Rm6qlJD_OncqmbDI5 Qj8Yw
    99A5 bgVc/edit#gid=0

    i was able to access it... pretty nice... still needs some work... eg: column with official up to eight character domain string for each as seen in PKTs... maybe list known aliases for each so they can be added as alias-for in configs that offer such option...

    I'm not sure if there is another url for that page.

    you could make a tinyurl for it ;)

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  • From Al@VERT/TRMB to mark lewis on Wednesday, June 20, 2018 22:12:02
    Re: GameNet outbound
    By: mark lewis to Al on Wed Jun 20 2018 12:18 pm

    I'm not sure if there is another url for that page.

    you could make a tinyurl for it ;)

    I found the original message I got the link from, from NuSkooler..


    I don't know, but NuSkooler had a google doc list of known zone numbers, I don't have the link to it any more though.

    https://goo.gl/T6dC7F

    Please, if there are new/missing networks or info that can be updated, feel >free!

    That one is a bit more user friendly.. :)

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to mark lewis on Thursday, June 21, 2018 09:55:00
    On 06-20-18 12:03, mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    just standard google-fu but i also set google to return 100 results
    (the maximum) per page instead of just 10... then i only need to scroll down the page to maybe find what i hope to find...

    Yeah, I used to do that, but have been on too many devices in recent years lol

    thanks... so i guess the couple of "usenet" domains i saw are

    I suspect so, but might hint at who's offering usenet feeds. :)

    erroneous, too... i've fixed the vkradio as Z432 in my config... i even

    Yes, 432 is the only zone I'm using. :)

    went trudging through the OTHERNETS echo trying to verify which zone is the zone for some of these domains... only one lists the zone in their advertising... maybe two... none of the others say anything about which zone(s) they are using...

    That's true, I've only ever found zones by actually joining nets. :)

    ==== Begin "GetFTNDomainsFromBinkdLogs" ====
    <snip>

    I'll try that on my system, as I run binkd.

    yeah, as i noted, i ran it across all of the binkd logs i have since 2015...

    My logs go back to the start of this year (since rebuilding from a major
    rash).

    Hmm, interesting, here's my output. Someone has created a 4 digit
    zone, by the looks of it. :)

    yup... that's a private net i've been operating since some time in the '90s... not too shabby a list you have there ;)

    Well, you got found out. :D And yes, I get around. :D


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  • From mark lewis@VERT to Tony Langdon on Thursday, June 21, 2018 12:40:48
    On 2018 Jun 21 09:55:00, you wrote to me:

    thanks... so i guess the couple of "usenet" domains i saw are

    I suspect so, but might hint at who's offering usenet feeds. :)

    that's what the echolist was designed for... one place to look to see what echos are available, what their topics are, where they are available from and more :)


    went trudging through the OTHERNETS echo trying to verify which zone
    is the zone for some of these domains... only one lists the zone in
    their advertising... maybe two... none of the others say anything
    about which zone(s) they are using...

    That's true, I've only ever found zones by actually joining nets. :)

    yeah, see? i've never understood that... especially with 3D and 4D software... you go join a net and then find out that there are problems with mail delivery because there's a zone conflict so now you have to drop one of them or switch software or the whole net moves to a different zone to avoid the conflicts...


    I'll try that on my system, as I run binkd.

    yeah, as i noted, i ran it across all of the binkd logs i have since
    2015...

    My logs go back to the start of this year (since rebuilding from a
    major rash).

    i hope you had/have a good cream for that rash and it took care of it really fast without too much discomfort :) :lol:

    but, yeah, i know what you mean... i've had one or two crashes that were rather
    painful... the last one is the one that lead me to keeping my RA in the default
    configuration and colors and adding features to it to show it off with all its feature capabilities...

    Hmm, interesting, here's my output. Someone has created a 4 digit
    zone, by the looks of it. :)

    yup... that's a private net i've been operating since some time in
    the '90s... not too shabby a list you have there ;)

    Well, you got found out. :D And yes, I get around. :D

    hahahaha... i actually have others but binkd is configured to hide them from everyone except those in them... that's a pretty neat feature that could be very handy in other FTN mailers... especially those that insist on recording inbound traffic as coming from an address you don't connect with... i mean, an address that is an AKA on the remote system... like a real example that happened a while back... i had a point address in fidonet and a full node address in an othernet... the othernet stats showed my othernet mail being delivered by my fidonet point address instead of the proper othernet address i was flying... the only way to avoid the problem was to hide the fidonet point address so that only the othernet address was presented but that blocked sending FTN mail to that remote system which was also in fidonet... the problem, such as it is/was was specifically the wrong address being used in the
    reports which were built from the data logged by the mailer...

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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to mark lewis on Friday, June 22, 2018 22:11:00
    On 06-21-18 12:40, mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    that's what the echolist was designed for... one place to look to see
    what echos are available, what their topics are, where they are
    available from and more :)

    I was thinking more that some Usenet providers like to have their Usenet feeds in a different FTN zone (no idea why).

    That's true, I've only ever found zones by actually joining nets. :)

    yeah, see? i've never understood that... especially with 3D and 4D software... you go join a net and then find out that there are problems with mail delivery because there's a zone conflict so now you have to
    drop one of them or switch software or the whole net moves to a
    different zone to avoid the conflicts...

    Yeah, I see your point. I looked through all the sources I could find, before selecting a zone number.

    My logs go back to the start of this year (since rebuilding from a
    major rash).

    i hope you had/have a good cream for that rash and it took care of it really fast without too much discomfort :) :lol:

    LOL bloody keyboard sometimes drops letters. :D

    but, yeah, i know what you mean... i've had one or two crashes that
    were rather painful... the last one is the one that lead me to keeping
    my RA in the default configuration and colors and adding features to it
    to show it off with all its feature capabilities...

    Yeah, interesting. :)

    hahahaha... i actually have others but binkd is configured to hide them from everyone except those in them... that's a pretty neat feature that could be very handy in other FTN mailers... especially those that
    insist on recording inbound traffic as coming from an address you don't connect with... i mean, an address that is an AKA on the remote
    system... like a real example that happened a while back... i had a
    point address in fidonet and a full node address in an othernet... the othernet stats showed my othernet mail being delivered by my fidonet
    point address instead of the proper othernet address i was flying...
    the only way to avoid the problem was to hide the fidonet point address
    so that only the othernet address was presented but that blocked
    sending FTN mail to that remote system which was also in fidonet... the problem, such as it is/was was specifically the wrong address being
    used in the reports which were built from the data logged by the
    mailer...

    Yeah those sort of bugs are a pain. Would have been worse in the dialup days, when you had to make a separate call. I don't mind flying all the flags, unless there's a technical reason not to.


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  • From mark lewis@VERT to Tony Langdon on Friday, June 22, 2018 21:53:46
    On 2018 Jun 22 22:11:00, you wrote to me:

    that's what the echolist was designed for... one place to look to see
    what echos are available, what their topics are, where they are
    available from and more :)

    I was thinking more that some Usenet providers like to have their
    Usenet feeds in a different FTN zone (no idea why).

    never heard of that... thanks but no thanks ;)


    My logs go back to the start of this year (since rebuilding from a
    major rash).

    i hope you had/have a good cream for that rash and it took care of it
    really fast without too much discomfort :) :lol:

    LOL bloody keyboard sometimes drops letters. :D

    -=B-)

    but, yeah, i know what you mean... i've had one or two crashes that
    were rather painful... the last one is the one that lead me to
    keeping my RA in the default configuration and colors and adding
    features to it to show it off with all its feature capabilities...

    Yeah, interesting. :)

    yeah, everyone was always "the defaults are ugly!" and we're all like "so go change them to what you want. they're ugly on purpose to get folks to change them instead of leaving all the RA boards looking the same." dunno if it ever really worked, though...


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  • From Tony Langdon@VERT to mark lewis on Saturday, June 23, 2018 17:43:00
    On 06-22-18 21:53, mark lewis wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    I was thinking more that some Usenet providers like to have their
    Usenet feeds in a different FTN zone (no idea why).

    never heard of that... thanks but no thanks ;)

    I'm just guessing, and I don't see the point either. :)

    Yeah, interesting. :)

    yeah, everyone was always "the defaults are ugly!" and we're all like
    "so go change them to what you want. they're ugly on purpose to get
    folks to change them instead of leaving all the RA boards looking the same." dunno if it ever really worked, though...

    A lot of RA boards kept the stock look. Not all of us sysops are artists or designers, some of us prefer to look at functional mods than cosmetic ones. :)


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