Subj : Nodelist Phone Field (consistency?)
To   : mark lewis
From : Benny Pedersen
Date : Thu Jun 21 2018 12:35 am

Hello mark!

20 Jun 2018 12:24, mark lewis wrote to Björn Felten:

 ON>>> why not use 000-0-0-0-0

 BF>> And what will happen if you try to connect to IP number 0.0.0.0?

 ml> you don't... if your mailer even tries, then you have it 
 ml> misconfigured...

this is a old bug in binkd versions, it was fixed when i used no-ip.com :)

 ml> the 000- psuedo "area code" would prevent that in 
 ml> POTS mailers... IP capable mailers will see the string and know not to 
 ml> call it... valid IPs listed this way will have the 000- stripped and 
 ml> the IP used in the same fashion as a POTS number... frontdoor has been 
 ml> doing this for two decades now...

phonefield must not be used for ip numbers, even if its valid ips or not

0.0.0.0 is ANYNET in linux, so he would try to connect to world of all ipv4 at 
the same time, and waiting for ACK from all to continue deliver something

TCP power :)


 Regards Benny

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