Subj : Nlcheck report
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 13:07:18

On 07.10.2022 12:21, Wilfred van Velzen wrote:

> 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 ;E ,395,The_FBO_BBS,Daytona_Beach_FL,Charles_Blackburn,-Unpublished-,3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.

If you ask google, the correct hostname seems to be bbs.thefbo.us. :)

'Tommi

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