Subj : Bug report
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Roy Witt
Date : Sun Mar 18 2012 05:49:12


17 Mar 12 11:49, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Roy Witt:

 MvdV>>> 1) It occasionally crashes when a specific node or some
 MvdV>>> specific nodes call in. Roy can confirm that, as his system
 MvdV>>> used to crash when I called him.

 RW>> I think that was an earlier version, since it hasn't happened since
 RW>> the time your log-in here crashed the system.

 MvdV> My main Fido system hads been running the latest official release
 MvdV> which is 2.29. That version is over a decade old.

Yes, and that was the version that crashed here.

 MvdV> It still occasionally crashes on this side. I use the following
 MvdV> workaround:

 MvdV> === Cut ===

 MvdV> :loop
 MvdV> del \sema\*.0
 MvdV> rexw -daemon
 MvdV> choice /C:yn /T:n,5 Quit Rex
 MvdV> if errorlevel 2 goto loop

 MvdV> === Cut ===

That's probably a nice workaround for you. However, 'Choice' isn't
recognized by W2k as an internal or external command or operable program.

I did something similar to that, but it required a manual restart, which
used 'if', 'else' and 'goto' to wipe out the *.0 semaphore and restarts
Rex.

I can probably dupe yours with 'if, else, goto, errorlevel' which are
recognized commands by W2k...

 MvdV> So whe Irex terminates, normally or abnormally, it restarts in 5
 MvdV> seconds, unless I push the "y" key.

 MvdV> When I gave up hope that it will ever be fixed, I have stopped
 MvdV> keeping track of when and how it happens, but I know that it still
 MvdV> crashes now and then.

I haven't seen it crash like it used to, but I've seen it lock up and
not respond to keyboard input, but keep on doing mail transfers, etc..

 MvdV>>> 2) When entering a new node in the node manager it reads the
 MvdV>>> nodelist, But it only finds the host name if it is in the
 MvdV>>> system name field. It does not find it when the host name is a
 MvdV>>> parameter after the protocol flag or the INA flag.

 RW>> Correct.

 MvdV> I have also created a work around for that, but it is less of an
 MvdV> annoyance, as I do not enter new nodes in the node manager any
 MvdV> more. Actually, removing a node that left FidoNet happens more
 MvdV> often...

Starting with the August event of 2011, I began to add new nodes to Rex
node-manager as they came online here. I'm also attempting to get Fidonet
back to San Antonio and have added a new node to net387 just a few weeks
ago. There's an older node in San Marcos, just 14 miles up the road from
here that is listed in the Austin network, but he lives closer to me.

 MvdV>>> 3) A parameter after a protocol flag is always interpreted as a
 MvdV>>> port number. Even if it clearly is not.

 MvdV>>> 4) When no host name is in the system name field, it will try
 MvdV>>> the f.n.z.fidonet.net method. This is not overridable and the
 MvdV>>> domain is not configurable.

 RW>> It can be user (sysop) written in binkp to use anything but the
 RW>> fnz.fidonet.net addressing system.

 MvdV> I know. But not Irex...

 MvdV>>> 8) No IPv6

 RW>> [Version update]

 MvdV>>> I have been waiting for a decade, my patience has run out.

 RW>> Same here.

 MvdV> With the next major system upgrade I will switch to binkd I think.

The same here...maybe D'B if it can quote properly by the time I get to
use it.


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