Subj : Nlcheck report
To   : Dan Clough
From : Andrew Leary
Date : Thu Nov 07 2024 00:15:22

Hello Dan!

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

 SM>> 1:103/1
 SM>> ,1,bbsdev.net,Lake_Forest_CA,Stephen_Hurd,-Unpublished-,300,CM,XW
 SM>> ,IBN Non Pvt node has no connection info. 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.
 WvV>> But this line is not wrong.

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

Listing the hostname in the system name field was the original method used 
when Internet nodes were first allowed into the nodelist.  There are mailers 
that do use the system name field; mbcico from MBSE BBS is just one example.  
The most commonly used mailer these days (BinkD) doesn't use the nodelist at 
all; it depends on the node entries in its configuration file.  Any node not 
listed there won't ever be called by BinkD.  That's why there are 
programs/PERL scripts out there that convert Internet node entries into a 
format suitable for including in BinkD's configuration.

nl2binkd by Markus Reschke also supports extracting the hostname from the 
system name field.

Regards,

Andrew

--- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20240209
 * Origin: Phoenix BBS * phoenix.bnbbbs.net (1:320/219)

.