Subj : Test for links etc
To : Vince Coen
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Fri May 09 2014 12:58 pm
Hello Vince!
I returned to teh original problem, and tried the the example.
I appears that all I have been saying about the INA: flag and MBSE is not true.
MBSE does gets the DNS hostname from any flag in the Flags section.
08 Mai 14 17:37, you wrote to me:
>> Makenl accepts an IP address or hostname as an attribute to IBN:
>> this is used in Z1, but not accepted in Z2.
VC> Is is NOT in the spec here as taken from the nodelist:
VC> ;S | IBN[:24554] ......... BinkP protocol
VC> and for INA:
VC> ;S | INA[:IP-addres] ..... Flag sets the default Internet address used for
VC> ;S | any non-email based IP-flag that does not
VC> specify ;S | its own.
Those are the specs that ZC2 accepts.
Below is what MBSE can handle (See /opt/mbse/etc/nodelist.conf)
# field8 - Search in the flags for a FQDN. Valid flags are like:
# IBN:domain.com Standard
# IFC:domain.com:port Standard
# IBN:1.2.3.5 Standard
# ITN:1.2.3.4:port Standard
# IBN:* Proposed, use default
domain
# IBN:*:port Not yet proposed
VC> In the 20 odd years I have been in fido I have never seen this mode
VC> not
VC> that I have been looking mind you and as far as I can see if there is a
VC> defined location for a ip address/url eg, INA that is good enough for me.
I think we were talking about this type of notation:
Hub,1,Rosario_Hub_1,Rosario_SF,Damian_Kleiman,-Unpublished-,300,ICM,IBN:osionli
ne.com.ar,IMI:
[email protected]
VC> It would be interesting to see what Ward's options are on this?
Apparently he has decided against it, as it is not accepted by hist Errorflags
filter.
>> On the other hand MBSE is one of the reasons to have the INA: as it
>> supports three IP protocols.
VC> Well I assume you mean all three variations e.g., URL, IP4 & IP6 when it
VC> is needed and no I have not tested it for IP6 and coming to think about it
VC> have not noticed IP4 as well.
No I meant the three Fidonet transports ITN, IFC and IBN
Incoming IPv6 is handled by inetd or xinetd and needs no modifications
to the programme. For outgoing IPv6 a few system calls have been replaced,
that can handle both IPv4 and IPv6.
When I started supporting IPv6 I was surprized that I got IPv6 connections
wen connecting to the system of Michiel Broek.
Currently Andrew Leary supports IPv6 on his MBSE system.
VC> Mbse is not the only one that looks for the URL/Ip address from the
VC> INA flag. It is what the INA flags is for.
Indeed, it even looks for mailbox type adresses and strips the xxxx@.
I am not shure if MBSE is choosy behind which flag it finds a hostname.
So I think this thread comes to an end, I tried to solve a problem that
is not there, and the original problem is system specific for the one who
posted it.
Kees
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