Subj : Nodes location. Funny statistics.
To : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Dmitry Protasoff
Date : Sat Aug 02 2025 02:14 pm
Hello, Michiel!
Saturday August 02 2025 12:36, you wrote to me:
DP>> It depends on who's running the investigation and doing the
DP>> questioning.
MV> You run the application, I ask the question.
You see the same results as I do.
DP>> Those details are not important for this report.
MV> I say it exposes a significant shortcoming. Your application notices
MV> the case of more than one listed hostname but it misses the case of a
MV> hostname resolving to more than one IP.
But this node is still in NL, right? Only one node in Fidonet is located in multiple countries at the same time (because it's running on an SQL cluster) and this is not that node.
So as I said, it's not important because the result will be the same.
MV>>> BTW, I am not the only node in Fidonet that is dual homed...
DP>> Happy to hear that!
MV> Happy enough to update your statistics accordingly?
I was told in uni that a margin of error is acceptable as long as it's not critical for decision making.
This is exactly what's happening: only one node in FIdonet is truly multi-country based and it's still an experiment.
DP>> He is from "Heerhugowaard". I can't even pronounce that.
MV> No need to pronounce it as long as your utility can write it.
She had a very hard job doing this and now she's very tired.
DP>> "Heer" in Russian means "penis", BTW.
MV> "Heer" means "Master" or "Lord. "Hugo" is a male name, like "Hugh" and
As someone who was raised with egalitarian values, I don't like the idea of any "lords" or "masters". That's why the "penis" comparison was brought up here.
MV> "waard" in this context is arcahic for "estate". So it means "Master
MV> Hugh's Estate".
So it's misleading name, rigth? "Master Hugh" is long dead and decomposed, that's not his estate. Probably it's good idea to rename it.
How about Groteplas?
Very easy to pronounce and shorter.
MV> I could not help noticing the you are using the tactics of "the one
MV> who's name shall not be mentioned". You are changing the subject to
MV> divert from the fact that you do not support IPv6.
IPv6 is very inconvenient in a country with massive internet blocking. I am currently in Moscow and will be here for a relatively short period of time.
But my previous ISP in London also had zero IPv6 support.
I think IPv6 support in R50 will decrease, because many telcos are dropping support for it and he.net tunnels are already being blocked in some regions.
What is nore important for R50 is i2p support, Fido-over-DNS and Fido-over-ICMP support.
Best regards,
dp.
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