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Hello Tim,

On Monday February 28 2022 12:37, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> 1) Can Winpoint accept incoming calls?

 TS> No. Originally, that made little sense for a point software. Nowadays,
 TS> I see some potential in that (also as a kind of Mini-Node). However, I
 TS> think that people may dislike the idea of runnin a GUI application as
 TS> a server. Separating the GUI would probably be serious work.

In the haydays of Fidonet, the pointlist was considered a breeding pond for
new sysops. They had the opportunity to get to know the basic principles of
Fionet and could familiarize themselves with the software. Making their
sysyems accept incoming calls was one of the steps on the ladder. Of course in
those days there was no dedicated point software, they used fully fledged
mailers.

 MvdV>> 2) Does Winpoint support IPv6?

 TS> Probably not. It has not been explicitly implemented. However, I have
 TS> another softwre project of similar age, that (for complex technical
 TS> reasons) turned out to surprisingly almost fully support IPv6. The
 TS> only problem was, that it was due to parsing of the inpunt simply not
 TS> possible to enter IPv6 adresses, but using DNS worked as well as
 TS> accepting incoming connections from IPv6 clients. So in total it took
 TS> me like 10 minutes to fix that one.

My point Rinaldo started out with Binkd, Fmail and Golded. He did not like the
config text files and so went looking elsewhere and he found Winpoint. But I
have not given up hope of one day promoting hin to fully fledged node, hence
my question about incoming calls.

And why IPv6? Well, it so happens that he is on a DS-Lite connection. He does
not have a public IPv4 address of his own, so if he is going to accept
incoming calls, it wil be IPv6 only. I saw him come in on IPv4 and hence my
question about IPv6. I was hoping it would be a setting in Winpoint...

 TS> Overall, I have it on the list and care about that soon. Do you have a
 TS> test system for me?

You can always try to connect to my system. It answers on IPv6 and IPv4.


Cheers, Michiel

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