Subj : Re: Nlcheck report
To   : Kees van Eeten
From : Dan Clough
Date : Wed Nov 06 2024 14:42:45

-=> Kees van Eeten wrote to Dan Clough <=-

 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 ,1,bbsdev.net,Lake_Forest_CA,Stephen_Hurd,-Unpublished-,300,CM,XW,IBN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.

 KvE>  according to:
 KvE> -------8<-------
 KvE> Publication:    FTS-5004
 KvE> Revision:       1
 KvE> Title:          DNS Distributed Nodelist
 KvE> Author(s):      Alexey Vissarionov, 2:5020/545
 KvE>                 FTSC members and administrator
 KvE> Issue Date:     6 January 2013

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

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

Okay, full ACK.  I didn't know that, but now I do.



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