Subj : Re: Packet PW
To : Joe Delahaye
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Tue Nov 07 2017 06:26 am
-=> Joe Delahaye wrote to All <=-
JD> I have not seen it referred to, so I am wondering. Since shortly after
JD> the upgrade to sbbsecho.v3, I had one node not tossing mail all of a
JD> sudden. Looking at the log files, there was an entry for a pcket PW
JD> missing. Found "" expected Password. I never had a packet PW with
JD> this node. He does not have one configured for me either. Yesterday
JD> another contact the same. No Packet Pw configured ever, and yet it
JD> requires one now. It just occurred to me that both these links are
JD> running the same mailer software, one of them is the author of DB, but
JD> I have other links also running DB, and so far no problem with them
JD> To be precise, it is the session PW that is now required as the Packet
JD> PW as well for some reason.
That was my issue with Robert Starr. We'd connect with session pw... but
sbbsecho was saying the pkt's were bad due to a missing pkt password. I never
had one for Robert although he swears we did. I wasn't going to argue over it
so I just added the one he was sending over to my sbbsecho.ini.
Here are my logs...
2016-04-12 22:18:57 Importing (secure) 12192104.pkt (Type 2+) from 316:77/1
2016-04-12 22:18:57 Imported: 1 msgs 3whispern <- WHISPERNET_ADMIN
2016-04-12 22:18:57 Imported: 1 msgs total in 0.0 sec (3157.9/min 52.6/sec)
Now the following day...
2016-04-13 01:46:53 Packet c:\fd\secure\12224859.pkt from 316:77/1 - Incorrect
password ('??????' instead of '')
2016-04-13 01:46:53 Bad packet detected: c:\fd\secure\12224859.pkt
That's a difference of 4 hours and I'll bet between those times is when Robert
updated to v3.
This went on till I noticed the bad pkts in my inbound. Once I added the PKT
pw, I renamed all the BAD pkts and sbbsecho imported them. Took me a week to
find it.. lol...
2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19090240.pkt (Type 2+, 1.6KB) from
316:77/1 to 316:973/2
2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19090721.pkt (Type 2+, 2.9KB) from
316:77/1 to 316:973/2
2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19093025.pkt (Type 2+, 2.1KB) from
316:77/1 to 316:973/2
2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19204934.pkt (Type 2+, 5.1KB) from
316:77/1 to 316:973/2
2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19213626.pkt (Type 2+, 0.8KB) from
316:77/1 to 316:973/2
2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19220815.pkt (Type 2+, 1.2KB) from
316:77/1 to 316:973/2
I also noticed a "Comment" was added in the form of the AREAFIX password we
used.
