Subj : Re: Binkd nondinnding to certain networks
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Joacim Melin
Date : Fri Dec 08 2017 10:51 pm

 AL> Hello Joacim!

 AL> 08 Dec 17 19:35, you wrote to mark lewis:

 JM>>>>>>> Thanks for your input!  I noticed now that there are a folder
 JM>>>>>>> named /fido/AmigaNet.027.

 WV>>>>>> That's not correct, binkd won't look in there.

 ml>>>>> ummm... yes it will IF it is configured in 5D form... the
 ml>>>>> question is, as you asked, if crashmail came up with that or if
 ml>>>>> the operator configured it in (a separate?) crashmail config...

 WV>>>> Yes, but (unless crashmail only understands 5D) I thought we
 WV>>>> should keep it as simple as possible and stick with 4D. That
 WV>>>> works most of the time. And not confuse Joacim with 2 different
 WV>>>> standards of doing things. But since crashmail seems to be doing
 WV>>>> 5D by default...

 ml>>> i do not think it does... i think crashmail is 4D at best... i'm
 ml>>> certainly not disagreeing with your flow... i only wanted to
 ml>>> correct that one statement... i think you are on the right
 ml>>> track... get CM and binkd both configured for 4D ops and it
 ml>>> should work... if CM is only 3D, the question then is if it is 3D
 ml>>> using zones or 3D using points... most folks understand that CM
 ml>>> needs some love to bring it up to today's standards, anyway...



 JM>> So. My binkd.cfg:

 JM>> domain fidonet /fido/outbound 2
 JM>> domain amiganet /fido/outbound 39
 JM>> # domain retronet /fido/outbound 2

 JM>> #
 JM>> #  Aliases to support known wrong 5D configurations domain fido
 JM>> alias-for fidonet

 JM>> #
 JM>> #  Aliases to support known DNS domain zones
 JM>> #  (some people is mix up the terms "FTN domain" and "DNS internet
 JM>> domain") domain fidonet.org alias-for fidonet domain fidonet.net
 JM>> alias-for fidonet


 JM>> #
 JM>> # Your addresses, 5D or 4D or 3D:
 JM>> #   address <addr1> ...
 JM>> # If first address specified as 3D/4D then domain for it sets from
 JM>> domain # defined in the first "domain" token. If second and more
 JM>> addresses specified # as 3D/4D then domain sets from first address. #
 JM>> address 2:201/120@fidonet address 39:160/242@amiganet

 JM>> The nodenames are setup like this:

 JM>> node address@fidonet/amiganet and then hostname, port and password.

 JM>> Crashmail.prefs:


 JM>> AKA 2:201/120.0
 JM>> DOMAIN "fidonet"

 JM>> AKA 39:160/242.0
 JM>> DOMAIN "amiganet"

 JM>> ; Nodes

 JM>> NODE 2:201/0.0 "" "" AUTOADD PACKNETMAIL CRASH
 JM>> NODE 39:150/200.0 "" "" AUTOADD PACKNETMAIL CRASH

 JM>> ROUTE 2:*/*.* 2:201/0.0 2:201/120.0
 JM>> ROUTE 1:*/*.* 2:201/0.0 2:201/120.0
 JM>> ROUTE 3:*/*.* 2:201/0.0 2:201/120.0
 JM>> ROUTE 4:*/*.* 2:201/0.0 2:201/120.0
 JM>> ROUTE 5:*/*.* 2:201/0.0 2:201/120.0
 JM>> ROUTE 6:*/*.* 2:201/0.0 2:201/120.0
 JM>> ROUTE 39:*/*.* 39:150/200.0 39:160/242.0

 JM>> Did I forget anything?

 AL> It appears that CrashMail is supporting 5D, based on the fact that
 AL> you defined 
 AL> a domain for amiganet and it is creating /fido/amiganet.027 to store
 AL> outbound 
 AL> amiganet packets.  (027 hex = 39 decimal)

 AL> To make it work for your system, change the domain amiganet line in
 AL> binkd.cfg 
 AL> to:

 AL> domain amiganet /fido/amiganet 2

 AL> The number after the directory name is your default zone in that
 AL> domain. 
 AL> Normally the zone extension is not used for the default zone.  Since
 AL> your 
 AL> tosser is creating it with the zone extension, we just lie to binkd
 AL> slightly.

Andrew, 

You're the man.  Thank you very much for your help - it works!

(and also thanks to all others here to helped)


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