Subj : Re: Network Monitoring
To : Brian Rogers
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Wed May 26 2021 04:38 pm
Hi Brian,
On 2021-05-26 09:50:00, you wrote to me:
WvV>> That would be the only thing you know. You still don't know who
WvV>> connects where, and display that graphically, as suggested by the
WvV>> websites that were linked to in previous messages in this thread...
BR> That would result in many false positives to do that. Sites that do direct
BR> crash netmail would falsely report that they do full forwarding with each
BR> other when in fact it'd just be netmail not echomail exchanged.
If you are only interested in echomail links, you could use messages in pkt files that have an AREA: line?
Or just use the mailers log file. I think that could work for binkd, I don't know about other mailers.
BR> For an NC such as myself, it could be used to determine a node or
BR> point's status and after so many consecutive failures remove that
BR> destination from the nodelist... or at least let the NC know that a
BR> node may have decided to drop out.
You could easily deduce that information by looking at your outbound directory. ;)
