Subj : non-CM nodes
To   : Carlos Navarro
From : Tommi Koivula
Date : Tue Aug 30 2022 05:17 pm

On 30.8.2022 9.14, Carlos Navarro wrote:

> How would you do (or are you doing) to make binkd only poll a non-CM
> node at its open hours?

I don't see a problem to have my binkd to try n times and if failed, then hold for n minutes, and do that around the clock. It doesn't cost much. ;)

> I can think of a batch/script that, after processing mail, renames
> the node's .?LO file to .HLO at the offline hours.

Sure, why not.

I ran a non-CM IP-node once, it was because my internet over ISDN was "free" from 17:00 to 07:00 and 24h weekends. But why such a node nowadays?

'Tommi

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