Subj : Got it...
To   : Martin Kazmaier
From : Dennis Slagers
Date : Sun Nov 10 2024 09:41:00


Hello Martin!

09 Nov 24 21:32, you wrote to Dan Clough:


 MK> Help me to do that!  I've done as much reading as I can to get to the
 MK> point where I'm at.  What you don't seem to understand is that I don't
 MK> have the slightest inclination to get direct netmail working. I want
 MK> it routing. That's what's not working at the moment and I think my
 MK> feed is the issue.  If you'd read my posts, I NEVER stated that I
 MK> wanted direct netmail working. I've been trying to get routing working
 MK> this whole time.  If you can't help, go away.  Others are at least
 MK> trying to help.  You're just trying to agitate me.

As most people think: it is not your system's issue but an uplink issue, is it not interesting
to try to contact the uplink and see what is wrong? Or wait until the uplink returns?

As I read (I hope) correctly some netmails were routed correctly some are at a stand-still, is it not worth investing time to see why a crash netmail would not be sent by binkd? To get an alterative way of communicating and get in touch with other uplinks to see if it is indeed another uplinks issue?

for what I know: binkd is using its own system to send crashmail
there are tools like BinkD-compatible nodelist extraction
through the file: binkd_nodelister.php version 1.4.0 which is based on perl binkd_nodelister.pl available
which is able to convert the nodelist to the binkd call list.
that file generated needs to be included in the config of binkd and with that you can send crash mail
and if needed you still can do the routing. I just noticed my system is not configured to update that call list and I converted it. Now I need to create a script to do that daily (or weekly)

I was on hiatus for 24 years, and now 2 months back into Fidonet. I know the lessons to get things running again is sometimes hard and sometimes you have to take a breath, wait, adapt, change and take
alternative ways to get your things going.


When I was starting again I had an issue of a pkt password issue I saw in the log. I could not see what was the issue from my site nor it seems to be an issue as all was working well even some other little things from my side looked wrong. In the end: other people software could also be not correctly configured which affects your site. So my uplink had an issue.

Try to get crashmail working, in the end it will be helping you solving other issues as well.


Dennis


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