Subj : Rejecting an incoming con
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Alexey Fayans
Date : Fri May 21 2021 10:03:33

Hello Dumas!

On Thu, 20 May 2021 at 10:45 -0400, you wrote to me:

 DW> The issue is that the polling node is using the test node number,
 DW> /999, instead of an assigned number.  Anyone else who is trying to
 DW> test a new connection, who does not somehow manage to get their polls
 DW> all done in the 2-minute window, will have whatever response messages
 DW> they were looking for picked up by the offending node.

I still don't get it. The only problem that can happen is that /999 will be reported busy for a second or two once in every 2 minutes. If that's a big deal then a perl hook suggested by Oli might do the trick. I'm not sure, though, because this hook is fired after the handshake is made, so a busy flag may already be set, which means it doesn't really matter how exactly session will be terminated: via hook or normally.

If by "messages they were looking for" you mean NOT binkp protocol messages but some netmail or echomail messages, then it's just a terrible design flaw and should be addressed in completely different way instead of trying to ban someone who is not doing anything harmful.


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