Subj : Net 134
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Stas Mishchenkov
Date : Fri Mar 10 2023 09:51:38

Hi Wilfred!

Thursday March 09 2023 22:30, you wrote to me:

 SM>>>> Pvt nodes should be called without -i option if they have IBN flag.

 WvV>>> Maybe Pvt should be treated the same as Down and Hold, when -i is
 WvV>>> used or not?

 SM>> The Hold and Down prefixes are ignored with the -i option. The Pvt prefix
 SM>> is ignored in any case (with or without -i option) if there is
 SM>> information to connect.

 WvV> I know. But my suggestion was to treat the Pvt flag the same as Hold and
 WvV> Down in this regard.

Ok. I got it. The next wersion will be.

 SM>>>>  - Try to fix "read socket error".

 WvV>>> We'll have to wait and see... ;)

 SM>> Unfortunately, I do not know with which node I can now check this.

 WvV> I get this with the latest and previous versions:

 WvV> Calling 1:134/302 (172.105.106.228:24554)
 WvV> Error Socket read error.

[fido@brorabbit logs]$ grep 421900 ./binkd.log
+ 10 Mar 09:47:22 [421900] call to 1:134/302@fidonet
  10 Mar 09:47:22 [421900] trying 172.105.106.228 [172.105.106.228]:24554...
  10 Mar 09:47:22 [421900] connected
+ 10 Mar 09:47:22 [421900] outgoing session with 172.105.106.228:24554
? 10 Mar 09:49:22 [421900] recv: connection closed by foreign host
+ 10 Mar 09:49:22 [421900] done (to 1:134/302@fidonet, failed, S/R: 0/0 (0/0 bytes))
  10 Mar 09:49:22 [421900] session closed, quitting...
  10 Mar 09:49:22 [421644] rc(421900)=0

It's really a connection problem. The error was different. When there was no problem, but the host did not give the whole block at one time and the script thought it could not read it.

 SM>> PPS: Is it worth trying to get the node address from binkp.net, for
 SM>> example, if there is no other information in the nodelist for
 SM>> connecting to the node, but the IBN flag is there?

 WvV> There are probably very few nodes where this is the case, so I wouldn't
 WvV> put it on the top of your priority list! ;)

Some sysops think that the IBN flag implies a default address like "f1.n2.z3.binkp.net". This is a mistake. If we check the correctness of the information in the nodelist, then it does not matter to us whether the node responds to this address. On the other hand, if we are checking the connectivity of the network, then such addresses should also be checked. Am I right?

Have a nice night.
          Stas Mishchenkov.

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