Subj : Re: sbbsecho.cfg
To   : Accession
From : Bill McGarrity
Date : Mon Nov 06 2017 20:25:55

-=> On 01-08-15 14:19, Accession wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

Hiya Nick...


 Ac> On 08 Jan 15 02:15, Bill McGarrity wrote to Accession:

 BM> Both were typos.... the space and the dash.  Too little sleep.

 BM> The way it's written is: ROUTE_TO 2:ALL

 Ac> Okay, then my next questions are:

 Ac> Was it destined from your system? Or from another system passing
 Ac> through your system?
 Ac> If it was from another system, what BBS software was it running?

From my system.


 Ac> In this case especially, I can't believe that those two "catch-all"
 Ac> ROUTE_TO statements would matter if they were reversed or not.
 Ac> Basically, one is saying route everything for zones 1, 3, and 4 through
 Ac> Janis, while the other one is saying to route all of zone 2 through
 Ac> Bjorn.

 Ac> The only time I can see needing things in a certain order, is if you're
 Ac> setting

 Ac> up a direct link with someone in zone 1, in some software you would
 Ac> have to specify that direct link BEFORE your catch-all, ie:

 Ac> DIRECT 1:154/10
 Ac> ROUTtE_TO 1:123/500 1:ALL

 Ac> Or similarly, some kind of more specific routing before a catch-all,
 Ac> ie:

 Ac> ROUTE_TO 1:154/ALL 1:154/10
 Ac> ROUTE_TO 1:123/500 1:ALL

 Ac> I can't see two catch-all statements making any difference above or
 Ac> below each other. And even if it were true in some cases, I don't think
 Ac> it matters any in Synchronet's sbbsecho.cfg. If you ever noticed when
 Ac> you use echocfg to do your routing, it puts things in oddball random
 Ac> places compared to the way these older softwares worked (and people are
 Ac> describing right now). This is the main reason why I have and always
 Ac> will edit sbbsecho.cfg manually. I think the config file is easier to
 Ac> read if you to it in a more heirarchial format. And I can be an anal
 Ac> retentive muhfugga sometimes, too. :)

I'll be looking at it more this weekend.  As soon as I figure out how binkd
uses the nodelist I'll just crash direct,

:)


Bill

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