Subj : Fido Package Deluxe
To   : Martin Foster
From : Torsten Bamberg
Date : Thu Feb 08 2018 11:09:04

Hallo Martin!

08.02.2018 09:08, Martin Foster schrieb an Torsten Bamberg:

 TB>> Well, IPRoute also like tiroute gets the IP-Nodes from the
 TB>> nodelist and writes a binkd-compatible list. This is usefull for
 TB>> requests to other node-sysops an for crashing netmail to other
 TB>> systems.
 MF> I've been digging around in the BINKD echo and according to what
 MF> somebody said in there, binkD doesn't actually need a nodelist. It can
 MF> be configured to use "binkp.net" to do DNS lookups. I've tried it and
 MF> it does work, although there's a few seconds delay whilst performing
 MF> the DNS lookup.
Well, binkp.net has some issues, and isn't available 24/7/365.

 TB>> Probably it might be easyier to write a complete new fpd with
 TB>> lazarus, intended by the original fpd.
 MF> Yes and if I had the necessary programming skills, I'd do it. However,
 MF> I know someone who does have the necessary programming skills, so I've
 MF> sent him a copy of the source to play about with ;-)
Ah, okay. :-)
I can do some beta/alapha testings, also compile lazarus sources to OS/2-Linux 
if needed.

 MF> Regards,
 MF> Martin
Bye/2 Torsten

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