Subj : Nodelist flags for "Internet connectivity"
To   : All
From : Joaquim Homrighausen
Date : Wed Feb 12 2025 01:14 pm

Hello everyone ... and apologies if this has been discussed already.

Looking at the nodelist flags IBN, IFC, IFT, ITN, and IVM, and how they're used in my current nodelist, I see them used as-is, and I see them used with a :port_number construct.

That makes sense.

I see the INA flag being used to signal a node's "Internet address", like "INA:my.spiffy.server.whatever".

That makes sense.

Looking at the end of the nodelist, I see comments regarding these flags, and that there's optional data in the form <flag>[:IP addres]

That does not make sense.

Looking at current practice, it seems I should implement the things above that make sense, and ignore the things that do not ;-)


-joho

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