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 Message 42479 
 Digital Man to deon 
 sbbsecho and bad packets 
 05 Oct 25 18:09:51 
 
TZUTC: -0700
MSGID: 55008.sync@1:103/705 2d4923bf
REPLY: 51946.dove-syncdisc@12:1/2 2d485f9b
PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/2287878bd Sep 27 2025 GCC 12.2.0
TID: SBBSecho 3.30-Linux master/88b423313 Sep 29 2025 GCC 12.2.0
COLS: 80
BBSID: VERT
CHRS: CP437 2
FORMAT: flowed
NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.105
  Re: sbbsecho and bad packets
  By: deon to Digital Man on Sun Oct 05 2025 11:04 pm

 > Hey DM,
 >
 > Since updating a few days ago, I've now got a bunch of bad packet in my
 > inbound, and all have been marked bad "msg-hdr".
 >
 > pktdump rev 1.18 - Dump FidoNet Packets
 >
 > Opening df43a202.msg-hdr.bad
 > df43a202.msg-hdr.bad Packet Type 2e (prod: 10FF, rev: 1.9) from 3:633/280 to
 > 3:633/509
 > df43a202.msg-hdr.bad 00003A Corrupted Message Header (DateTime)
 > df43a202.msg-hdr.bad 000658 Corrupted Message Header (DateTime)
 > df43a202.msg-hdr.bad 000B83 Corrupted Message Header (DateTime)
 > df43a202.msg-hdr.bad 001273 Corrupted Message Header (DateTime)
 > df43a202.msg-hdr.bad 001FAC Corrupted Message Header (DateTime)
 > root@alterant:/opt/sbbs/fido/inbound# pktdump df74da02.msg-hdr.bad
 > pktdump rev 1.18 - Dump FidoNet Packets
 >
 > Opening df74da02.msg-hdr.bad
 > df74da02.msg-hdr.bad Packet Type 2e (prod: 10FF, rev: 1.9) from 3:633/280 to
 > 3:633/509
 > df74da02.msg-hdr.bad 00003A Corrupted Message Header (DateTime)
 >
 > When I look at a few, it looks like SBBSecho (and pktdump) thinks they are
 > bad because of DateTime, but they look ok to me:

Looks to me like the DateTime is missing the NUL terminator:
00000040  79 02 79 02 00 00 00 00  30 33 20 4f 63 74 20 32  |y.y.....03 Oct 2|
00000050  35 20 20 30 37 3a 31 37  3a 34 37 20 41 6c 6c 00  |5  07:17:47 All.|

 > Why is SBBSecho marking them bad?

The sbbsecho.log should say the reason why, but it's probably the same reason.
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