Subj : Re: Weekly nodelist report on noteworthy changes (066)
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Nodelist Police Commissioner
Date : Fri Mar 06 2020 22:09:09

Hello Michiel,

On 2020-03-06 16:30:25, you wrote to me:

 NC>> '000-0-0-0' should be '-Unpublished-'.

 MvdV> Versions of MakeNl that allow "-Unpublished-" without "Pvt" have been
 MvdV> available for well over a decade. Even for OS/2...  It ios a mystery to me
 MvdV> why the powers that be have not "encouraged" the NCs to fase out the use of
 MvdV> all zero fake telephone numbers yet...

Disinterest and incompetence probably...

 NC>> The hostname should be behind an INA: because of the ITN, which now
 NC>> doesn't have a hostname connected to it. Connect with Mystic on the
 NC>> binkp port. On port 4022 I get: "SSH-2.0-cryptlib ,Handshake failed"
 NC>> Connection closed by foreign host. So there does seem to be some kind
 NC>> of mailer active,

 MvdV> If it is a mailer one would expect to see some initial handshake. All known
 MvdV> mailers do. I see nothing of the kind, so I don't think it is a mailer.

 NC>> I don't get a BBS, or maybe it expects a ssh connection for the BBS?

 MvdV> Possibly.

I tried to make an ssh connection and that worked (it didn't care about the password I gave). After that the mystic bbs user login procedure was initiated over the ssh connection...

 MvdV> In either case: if it is not a mailer that one can connect to, it
 MvdV> does not belong in the nodelist.

Indeed.

Regards, NPC.

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