Subj : Updates to BINKP on Clrghouz (Hub 3)
To   : All
From : deon
Date : Wed Oct 01 2025 20:29:45

Hey Folks,

This is mainly for Hub 3 nodes...

For the last couple of weeks I've been re-writing my BINKP implementation. My original BINKP was a port from qico (I think), and I've never been happy with it. It really was a hack, difficult to debug and only implemented some BINKP features. It also often didnt always cleanly shutdown a connection.

I've re-written it from scratch, and also implemented some missing features (like compression, CRC) as well as optimised the queries that it uses to build outgoing mail and the code overall. Much happier with this implementation, if anything it should make it easier for me to debug, uses less memory and is marginally faster.

You may notice some extra OPT compression options, and while I know there arent other mailers that can use these new compression options, other clrghouz implementations will.

I'm going to roll it over the next couple of days, firstly it'll handle outgoing polls, and eventually it'll also handle incoming polls. I'll progressively move folks over (using firewall rules) to the new implemenation, and when I'm confident I've addressed all the bugs, it'll become the default.

If you notice anything odd, please let me know - with some details and some debug logging if you can, it'll certainly help me find the issue and fix it.

Hope folks are well :)


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