Subj : inet hostname overrides system name?
To : Deon George
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Tue Sep 18 2018 02:57 am
Hello Deon!
18 Sep 18 06:00, you wrote to me:
DG> In my quest to override nodelist settings with those in mbsetup, I
DG> discovered that anytime a setting was put in Inet hostname (7.x.3),
DG> any other logging reporting (mbout n ... and log files), show the BBS
DG> name as the Inet Hostname. Can figure out why it should change the BBS
DG> name?
The original method for listing an internet hostname in the FidoNet NodeList
was in the system name field. The INA: flag for the internet address came
much later. MBSE was originally designed to look for the hostname in the
system name field; then later adapted to other methods of listing the
hostname, such as the INA: flag or attached to a protocol flag, or even an IP
address in the phone number field.
