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 Message 8423 
 Paul Hayton to Oli 
 Re: why one aka vs another 
 21 Jun 23 21:39:08 
 
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On 19 Jun 2023 at 09:53a, Oli pondered and said...
 
 Ol>  PH> I don't have a Fidonet AKA setup in my BinkD for this node, yet my
 Ol>  PH> instance of BinkD seems to like/accept it?
 Ol> 
 Ol> Are you 100% sure that there is not anything about fidonet in you
 Ol> binkd.cfg (or the included config files)? If there is no fidonet AKA,
 Ol> you should get a "(n/a or busy)" for fidonet too. But maybe I'm missing
 Ol> something.

i will double check and let you know.

 Ol>  PH> Any ideas how I can ensure just the Zone 21 is accepted?
 Ol> 
 Ol> You cannot. It's a flaw of the binkp protocol (inherited from EMSI). The
 Ol> moment you have a password protected session, the incoming connection
 Ol> can dump anything in your ("secure") inbound. That is the reason we have
 Ol> pkt (and tic) passwords.
 Ol> 
 Ol> You can configure some restrictions with the "skip" and "check-pkthdr"
 Ol> keyword, but I'm not sure, if check-pkthdr secure would prevent it.

OK thanks Oli.

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