Subj : Re: Fido in Russia/Ukraine
To   : John Dovey
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Mon Mar 07 2022 12:53:58

Hi John,

On 2022-03-07 06:37:16, you wrote to me:

 JD>>> I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but I was wondering
 JD>>> whether anyone knows whether Fido is still up and running in
 JD>>> Russia/Ukraine?

 WvV>> I don't know about Russia, but there is enough evidence it's running
 WvV>> as smoothly as ever.

 WvV>> I have been monitoring the connectivity of binkp systems in R46
 WvV>> (Urkaine) since the previous sunday (27-Febr.). There isn't much
 WvV>> change. There's one system no longer connectable, and 1 that has
 WvV>> become connectable since. All others are more or less unchanged.

 WvV>> But the situation on the 27th was already bad. A large part of the
 WvV>> systems was not connectable at that time. Whether that was due to the
 WvV>> war or because of the general state of fidonet from even before the
 WvV>> war started, I don't know, but I suspect the latter. And there is
 WvV>> still a large number of POTS only nodes in R46, that I can't test,
 WvV>> even I wanted to.

 JD> Thank you, that's truly helpful and good news. There are a lot of
 JD> people who are going to need communication in the area for the next
 JD> while that might not be able to use the standard channels.

Binkp still needs the internet. If that's down...

 JD> One option I've been investigating/testing is
 JD> https://briarproject.org/how-it-works/

Got that installed too. August convinced me to test it. ;)

 JD> This is how I was envisaging Fido working when I posted to Future4fido
 JD> (and got so heavily castigated for heresy).

I don't remember that, so it must not have been that bad.

One of my points supports binkp connections over tor, but I haven't looked into it myself. Maybe I should...

Bye, Wilfred.

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