home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

<< oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

 Message 146 
 Bill McGarrity to Nicholas Boel 
 Re: Zone Blind... 
 07 May 14 23:06:00 
 
@MSGID: <536B01AC.33581.sync_sys@vert.synchro.net>
@REPLY: <536AD76B.33580.sync_sys@vert.synchro.net>
@TZ: 40f0
Hiya Nick...

-=> Nicholas Boel wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

 BM> I did all you said in adding ZONE_BLIND 4 to the cfg and it still sent
 BM> out my aka's in the seen-by's.  I disabled the ZONE Blind option and now
 BM> it strips my aka's.  Cound Rob have done some othercoding for this?
 BM> This message has the toggle set to disable and there in no ZONE_BLIND
 BM> statement in the cfg.  Check the paths and seenbys to see if 100/24 and
 BM> 973/2 are still there.

 NB> It strips your AKAs, as well as any other nodes in other zones other
 NB> than zone 1 out of the PATH statement. See the PATH I have here for
 NB> this message as evidence. Bjorn in Zone 2 to me in Zone 1. The system
 NB> see where the issues lie in regards to their experiment?

 NB> Using ZONE_BLIND by itself would include every one of your addresses

 NB> The "ZONE_BLIND 4" option should only include your fidonetaddresses,

 NB> If you had ZONE_BLIND 4 as the first line in your sbbsecho.cfg,you
 NB> shouldn't have sent out any other addresses besides your 1:* ones. If
 NB> you did, then something wasn't done properly. Did you try recycling
 NB> Synchronet?

 NB> Joe is using this same feature on Win32, and it seems to be working
 NB> fine for him. I'm not sure what the deal is seeing as though I'm
 NB> running Linux here.

 NB> I can't really get the facts out of your message currently, because
 NB> someone between you and I are also stripping zones out of the PATH line
 NB> (Probably Ross, since HPT doesn't have an option to change that, but
 NB> hopefully it will in the future).

OK, I reconfigured it as your said, ZONE_BLIND 4 and completely restarted the
server.  I'll try and capture this message on the way out in my outbound 
folder
and see what seen-bys and path statements are in the message.  I will post 
said
results in next message... 


Bill

Telnet: bbs.tequilamockingbirdonline.net
Web: bbs.tequilamockingbirdonline.net
IRC: irc.tequilamockingbirdonline.net Ports: 6661-6670 SSL: +6697
Radio: radio.tequilamockingbirdonline.net:8010/live


... Motorcycles are everywhere... Look twice, save a life!!
--- MultiMail/Win32 v0.50
--- SBBSecho 2.27-Win32
 * Origin: TequilaMockingbird Online - Toms River, NJ (1:266/404)

<< oldest | < older | list | newer > | newest >> ]

(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca