ISO Tips for FREQ on Fidonet networks reddit / bbs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- denzuko · 2019-07-02 19:27 Recently joined my mystic board to FIDONET and while I got echomail working and have subscribed to a few file areas. There a feature that came up a few times in research about file requests (FREQ) but doesn't seem to be a whole lot of guides or examples on how this works other than using ALLFIX@... to search. Is there any tips one can offer when trying to do file requests? ​ Does one send a request to ALLFIX at the hub or post to one of the echos? Is ALLFIX the most universal address for sending to? Are there others? What would be a good way to get an index of files available (allfiles.txt, 00-index, etc..)? If one makes a request and there's a file available do they connect to the node that has it or would it be attached as a reply? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dperry324 · 2019-07-02 20:15 I don't believe that Mystic supports FREQ's. I could be wrong tho, as I've never investigated it. I've used mystic, almost since its inception as a DOS-based BBS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [deleted] · 2019-07-11 01:47 [deleted] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- denzuko · 2019-07-11 04:27 Interesting. Yeah, side note I'm actually working on an indexer for fidonet style networks. Kind of like what archie/veronica did for ftp/gopher. So I guess I'll have to poke around a bit then. Mystic does have an implementation of binkd baked into the mis binary which also handles telnet/ftp/nntp/smtp/ssh/http requests. http://wiki.mysticbbs.com/doku.php?id=introduction#mis_- _mystic_internet_server It also support FILES.BBS and FILEBONE.NA in the file toss packages that come over when fidopoll kicks off. Personally though I might look into htick and binkd at some point since anything that's not xinetd/getty which handles that many services gets my UNIX guy suspenders in a twist. But I digress. So the big question now is what is the best address to send ALLFIX FileFind commands to ie region hub, individual nodes, zone hub, etc..?