Subj : Re: NNCP
To   : Avon
From : deon
Date : Mon Oct 03 2022 10:05 am

  Re: Re: NNCP
  By: Avon to deon on Sun Oct 02 2022 08:17 pm

 >  de> I still wouldnt mind checking it out and playing with it - so if you
 >  de> want to play too, let me know and I'll set up something with Hub 3.
 >
 > I wondered that also, keep me posted perhaps we can set up some links between 1/100 and 3/100 to test stuff?

We certainly could.

I had a play with it last night, just to see how it works.

As a store->forward capability it does very well (as you would expect). I didnt look at the security of it (one of its claims), nor performance (in terms of compression, and transfers).

To use it for FTN, I think it would need a little bit of script foo to make it work with a mail tosser (so it becomes a viable alternative for binkd).

It's probably the same level off complexity to configure, ie: you need your uplinks public keys, you need to specify the inbound path, and you need to script to send stuff out. Its intuitively a little easier to use than binkd...

For each node, you define an "incoming", where incoming data for that node is placed. This would be the normal mailer secure inbound directory that hpt finds mail/files and tosses. Stuff only appears here after "nncp-toss" is called.

For data going out, you would need to call "nncp-file" with the name of the file and destination (didnt check if it could bundle up multiple files at the same time), so somehow need to hook that into hpt after it has finished bundling up mail to nodes.

Transfers can be scheduled automatically, it has a built in cron functionality and it looks like you can poll anyway, or poll only if you have stuff to send.

After a poll session, you need to call "nncp-toss" to finally receive what was sent to you - I think the cron functionallity could do that for you.

It seems you can execute commands at various times, but might need some script foo to call the right commands for the right type of file received, ie: hpt toss or htick toss.

As a transport, I think it is great, but it's probably a bit niche - ie: you still need a binkd to talk to most systems, and I'm not sure there is a nncp for all platforms that have a BBS on it (eg: dos, windows).


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