Subj : Re: Nlcheck report
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 11:21:07

Hi Michiel,

On 2022-10-07 09:49:27, you wrote to me:

 WV>> There is 1 new system in the list:

 WV>> ;E ,395,The_FBO_BBS,Daytona_Beach_FL,Charles_Blackburn,-Unpublished-,3
 WV>> 00,CM,INA:bbs,thefbobbs.us,IBN,ITN
 WV>> ;E  -- non Pvt node has no connect info --

 WV>> A new system with a bloody typo... :-/

 WV>> Errflags would have detected this.

 MvdV> Indeed. Errflags would have detected it because "thefbobbbs.us" is not a
 MvdV> valid flag. Nlcheck detected it because "bbs" is not considered a valid
 MvdV> host name. A valid host name must have at least one dot. I wonder why Kees
 MvdV> did not detect this.

So there is more then 1 way for the *C's involved to get automatically notified about the error before it ended up in the nodelist...

 MvdV> Other than that, replacing the comma with a dot does not fix it.

 MvdV> bbs.thefbobbs.us -> hostname not found.

Same here.


Bye, Wilfred.

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