Subj : Re: ifcico
To : Zip
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Mon Jul 08 2024 11:08 am
> Hello Dumas!
> On 04 Jul 2024, Dumas Walker said the following...
> DW> I am getting the following error. I have confirmed that the node being
> DW> called does have a proper INA entry. I also added the internet address
> DW> to the IFC flag, just in case, but I am still receiving this error.
> DW> Any help would be appreciated.
> The parser/grammar of ifcico is very limited, so any additions to the IFC
> flag *could* cause it to be ignored, leaving dial-out as the only option,
> and, as you noted, there is no phone number available.
> Not sure why one gets exit status 7 instead of 8 ("Phone number
> unavailable"), though...
> I get the same result here if I try to poll manually ('ifcico
> f105.n2320.z1'). :-/
I wrote a response to this but don't see it now!
I checked for some additional documentation but did not find any. I looked over
the command line options for polling out and decided to try a couple I had not
been using. Come to find out, if you are going to poll a node via the internet
instead of dialup, you have to give ifcico the information. It won't read it
from the nodelist.
So, using this command line resulted in a pollout from my test system to my
BBS:
ifcico -t0 -acapitolcityonline.net f105.n2320.z1
The "-t0" might not be necessary but I am leaving it there since it works this
way. ;) The "-a" tells ifcico what internet address to poll. If you leave it
off, it will revert to trying dialup even with the "-t0" present.
Now I just need to test it with some actual mail to send between the two nodes,
but at least I know it will poll now, and that 1:2320/105 can properly answer
and log the incoming call.
Your attempt at a poll got me thinking about checking into the command line
options some more, so thanks for trying that!
