Subj : Nodelist Thoughts?
To   : Nil Alexandrov
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Sat Oct 31 2020 11:41 am

 Re: Nodelist Thoughts?
 By: Nil Alexandrov to Jeff Smith on Sat Oct 24 2020 07:29 am

> Hello, Jeff!
>
> Thursday October 22 2020 01:01, from Jeff Smith -> All:
>
>  JS> I have seen questions and differing thoughts on the use of certain
>  JS> nodelist flags and their preferred or correct usage. A couple such
>  JS> flags are INA and IBN and how each should be used to specify nodelist
>  JS> connectivity data. In looking through the current nodelist I see those
>  JS> two flags used in a couple different ways.
>  JS> Thoughts on which and why?
>
> INA flag tells you that the node supports IP connection and the address is
> provided. There used to be IP flag for the same reason but because the addre
> itself was optional it is deprecated in favor of INA.
>
> Here, the IBN flag specifies that the Binkp protocol is supported and
> optionally a non-standard port can be specified.  Other supported protocol c
> be IFC (RAW ifcico), IFT, ITN, or IVM protocol.
>
> It is that the IBN flag cannot include the host address itself, that is why
> usually have a combination of INA+IBN in the nodelist.
>
> Best Regards, Nil

Actually Nil, the IBN can also specify an address.  It is just redundant if the
same one as the INA address so isn't used then.

 xxcarol

PS: Z2 may have a zone rule that allows only 1 address but it's something you'd
have to ask Ward about.
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