Subj : RE: binkd and mystic and secure sessions
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Allen Prunty
Date : Thu Dec 15 2016 10:49 am


On Dec 15, 2016 07:15am, Nicholas Boel wrote to Mark Lewis:

 NB> Fairly certain this was coded per spec (or proposal even). Most mailers
 NB> do not match the common AKA. They usually work in a top-down list and
 NB> match the first one that matches. So if you and I both have a Fidonet
 NB> address, it will try to use that first. If it fails, it will go to the
 NB> next matching AKA in the list. This is how binkd, Argus/Taurus/Radius,
 NB> Irex, and any other mailers I've used in the past currently operate.

True... I agree on that... but I think Mystic kinda picks the one it is
polling and doesn't ahve any rolldown on the other nodes.  It's fido poll
command line is very small in memory size which makes me believe it's very
simple in it's operation... but again it's not the size of the dog in the
fight that counts here.

 NB> I don't know of any mailers that do not do it this way (while I don't
 NB> agree with the method, but whatever). This was why the "Hide AKAs" was
 NB> added to Mystic in the first place.. to get past that issue if it were
 NB> to come up.

It's does eliminate some overhead as there is one node that I connect to that
has a Gazillion othernets to contend with.  I think Bink-D naviagates them
well but when I look at the logs on that node I'm amazed.

Allen
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