Subj : 2:5057/53
To   : Tony Langdon
From : mark lewis
Date : Tue Jul 10 2018 09:25:48


 On 2018 Jul 10 07:56:00, you wrote to me:

 ml>> that's a completely different topic than the one about whether binkd
 ml>> supports domain lookups for FTNs other than fidonet... binkp.net
 ml>> provides lookups for fidonet... AFAIK, it does not provide lookups
 ml>> for any other FTNs... i'd be willing to bet their logs are full of
 ml>> lookups for othernets, though...

 TL> Shouldn't be if binkd is properly configured.

it is questionable, though... i forget which version of binkd brought in the
ability to list the lookup domain on the DOMAIN lines but all the binkd
versions previous to that used the root-domain line... i expect that there are
still some systems out there using OS supplied installations of binkd which are
 old v0.9 versions...

 TL> I bet there's no binkp.net lookups from me for anything other than
 TL> Fidonet.

ideally there should not be any since the nodelist is supposed to carry all the
 necessary information to connect to a system...

 TL> And one could do domain lookups for othernets, just have to configure
 TL> the DNS service.  I started work on one for vkradio.com (most likely
 TL> will use bbs.vkradio.com), but haven't got around to putting it all
 TL> together.

i've wondered if the binkp.net scripts and methods are documented and available
 for others to be able to look over and possibly use as a base to build their
own...

)\/(ark

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