Subj : Nlcheck report
To   : Dan Clough
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Wed Nov 06 2024 15:23:36

Hello Dan!

06 Nov 24 07:38, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:

 DC> @BBSID: PALANTIR
 DC> -=> Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Stas Mishchenkov <=-

 SM>> 1:103/1
 SM>> ,1,bbsdev.net,Lake_Forest_CA,Stephen_Hurd,-Unpublished-,300,CM,XW,IBN
 SM>> Non Pvt node has no connection info.
 SM>> Am I right?

 WvV>> No. The host name is in the system name. Of course it would be
 WvV>> better/more clear to have it behind the IBN flag or as an INA. But
 WvV>> this line is not wrong.

 DC> I believe it is wrong.  Mailers don't look at the second field to find a
 DC> hostname to connect with.  They look at the INA: field.

 according to:
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Publication:    FTS-5004
Revision:       1
Title:          DNS Distributed Nodelist
Author(s):      Alexey Vissarionov, 2:5020/545
                FTSC members and administrator
Issue Date:     6 January 2013

To be published in DDN, the node MUST have at least one Internet
address published in the nodelist. The IP protocol flags or the
INA flag SHOULD be used for that purpose, but some nodes use the
system name instead, so the implementations SHOULD look for a
hostname in the protocol flag, the INA flag and the system name
field in that order.

------8< -----

The use of the systemname field to carry the DNS hostname, stems from before the "INA:" flag was defined.

 Kees

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