Subj : binkit.js error semfile config
To   : GitLab note in main/sbbs
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Tue Nov 11 2025 18:05:11

https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1005#note_7864

I don't know if it's a coincidence, but another FidoNet node (Wilfred Van Velzen) reported a weird interaction with a node running BinkIt today (involving bsy/semfile):

```
┌────────────────────────····
│ Subj: Strange issues
│ Attr: Replied
│ To  : All
│ From: Wilfred van Velzen (2:280/464)
│ Date: Tue Nov 11 2025 10:30 am UTC+1:00 (16.5 hours ago)
└───────────────────────────────────────────────······

Hi All,

I have a new node/link in AmigaNet using Synchronet on Freebsd. I'm noticing
some strangeness:


+ 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] incoming session with ***
- 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] OPT CRYPT
+ 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] Remote requests CRYPT mode
- 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] SYS ***
- 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] ZYZ ***
- 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] LOC ***
- 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
- 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] TIME Tue Nov 11 2025 08:29:58 GMT+0000 (WET)
- 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] VER BinkIT/2.41,JSBinkP/4,sbbs3.20d/FreeBSD binkp/1.1+ 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] addr: 39:***/***@AmigaNet
+ 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] addr: 21:*/***@fsxnet (n/a or busy)
+ 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] addr: 1337:*/***@tqwnet (n/a or busy)
+ 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] pwd protected session (MD5)
- 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] session in CRYPT mode
- 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] receiving f4o5881q.pkt (19 byte(s), off 0)
+ 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] rcvd: f4o5881q.pkt (19, 19.00 CPS,
39:***/***@AmigaNet)
? 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] recv: connection closed by foreign host
+ 11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] done (from 39:***/***@AmigaNet, failed, S/R: 0/1
(0/19 bytes))
  11 Nov 09:29:58 [23984] session closed, quitting...

------------  Tue 2025-11-11, FMail-lnx64-2.3.2.4-Beta20240523
09:29:58.974  Toss
09:29:58.978  Error reading packet header in file:
/home/fido/inbound/f4o5881q.pkt, renamed with extension: '.error'

# xxd f4o5881q.pkt.error
0000000: 4269 6e6b 4954 2f32 2e34 3120 6172 6773  BinkIT/2.41 args    
0000010: 3a20 0a                                  : .


Firstly the .pkt file that isn't a .pkt file?

Secondly the 'recv' from the remote before the connection is complete, so my
binkd flags it as 'failed'...


Bye, Wilfred.
--- FMail-lnx64 2.3.2.4-B20240523
 # Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)     

```
Looks like the contents of a bsy file were sent as a packet (?).
 * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)

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