Subj : Connection Tests
To   : Rob Swindell
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Wed Apr 05 2023 11:22 pm

Hello Rob,

On Wednesday April 05 2023 13:38, you wrote to me:

 RS> I'm my own DNS provider, so yeah, no limit. :-) I added
 RS> binkp.synchro.net for the f1d0 address and updated my _binkp._src SRV
 RS> record as well.

Check:

+ 22:59 [3480] call to 1:103/705@fidonet
  22:59 [3480] trying binkp.synchro.net [2600:6c88:8c40:5b:f1d0:1:103:705]...
  22:59 [3480] connected
+ 22:59 [3480] outgoing session with binkp.synchro.net:24554
               [2600:6c88:8c40:5b:f1d0:1:103:705]
- 22:59 [3480] OPT CRAM-MD5-5932afa00556584e121b45fb2b25f3ca
+ 22:59 [3480] Remote requests MD mode
- 22:59 [3480] SYS Vertrauen
- 22:59 [3480] ZYZ Rob Swindell
- 22:59 [3480] LOC Riverside County, California
- 22:59 [3480] NDL 115200,TCP,BINKP
- 22:59 [3480] TIME Wed Apr 05 2023 13:59:30 GMT-0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- 22:59 [3480] VER BinkIT/2.41,JSBinkP/4,sbbs3.20a/Win32 binkp/1.1
+ 22:59 [3480] addr: 1:103/705@fidonet

 RS> Next up, the Fidonet nodelist.

We will see in a day or two...

 >> RS> Is this just a vanity address or does it have some functional
 >> RS> puporse?
 >>
 >> It is just vanity, it serves no technical purpose. But it is quit
 >> popular among the Fidonet IPv6 sysops. Over a third of them have
 >> such a vanity address.

 RS> It's showing off a "feature" of IPv6. :-)

Yes, it is. But "playing around" also has a function in climbing the learning curve.

 >> You can always discuss it with the author. ;-)

 RS> I didn't write most of the IPv6 support in Synchronet, that was
 RS> Stephen Hurd, but I can certainly look into it.

Staying tuned...


Cheers, Michiel

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