Subj : Candidates vision request
To   : Markus Reschke
From : mark lewis
Date : Sun Dec 09 2018 11:33:08

 On 2018 Dec 06 18:05:22, you wrote to Fred Riccio:

 FR>> Jerry Schwartz's Perl script is probably the most popular extraction
 FR>> tool used to generate this file.  Up until July of this year a file
 FR>> created by this script was hatched into the I-BinkD file echo.

 FR>> Carol's entry in that extraction of NodeList.224 is...

 FR>> Node 1:275/100@fidonet  shenks.dyndns.org;shenks.synchro.net    -

 MR> This is what I've meant with the confusion about which "standard" applies.
 MR> Apparently Jerry's converter follows the undocumented feature Carol
 MR> mentioned.

no, it follows what was discussed 11+ years ago when he was working on it...

 MR> So it would extract additional addresses which aren't intended for
 MR> binkp for a node entry following the FTSC docs (if listed take just
 MR> the address in the IBN flag).

wrong... it extracts the domain from the "system name" field, the INA flag(s)
and the IBN flag(s)... the domains listed in the "system name" field and the
INA flags are default domains to attempt a connection with... they are valid to
 use if the domains attached to any IBN flags fail to connect...

 MR> How do we resolve this dilemma?

what delima?

 MR> If all entries for Z1 nodes follow the undocumented feature then I
 MR> could add a special case to my tool to take also the addresses listed
 MR> in the INA flag. And Jerry would have to do the same, just the other
 MR> way around. The frustating thing is that it's hard for software
 MR> developers to know about undocumented features. Please tell the FTSC
 MR> about such stuff, so we are able to document that.

binkd_nodelister.pl has source available and it was distributed in the I-BINKD
FDN so it would be available for others to use to generate their own FTN
nodelist to binkd NODE list lists... no documentation necessary...

)\/(ark

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