• Rhenium Reports

    From Ozz Nixon@1:275/362 to All on Tuesday, July 10, 2018 10:29:33
    Those are 3 of the 7 reports Rhenium mailer generated. Every couple thousand seconds Rhenium randomly polls differnet systems in the nodelist. Mainly to help me verify my nodelist indexer is working, and that Rhenium can negotiate with each node. Then every monday, it resamples every system that it was able to connect to and generates these reports:

    NOT5D.TXT - list of systems that are presenting a 3D or 4D address without the domain (if I recall its just two nodes).

    NETLIST.TXT - list of all domains in the 5D addresses, no counts just a list of
    every unique FTN 5D domain.

    NETHOG.TXT - list of the top 10 nodes that have the most networks in their M_ADR header.

    CONNSPEED.TXT - Top 30 fastest connections and Top 30 slowest connections

    BOSSOS.TXT - Top Operating Systems (per Mailer M_NUL VER string).

    BOSSAPP.TXT - Top Mailers based upon M_NUL VER string. (currently BinkD), modified this morning to also break out systems running binkp/1.0, binkp1.1 and
    unspecified. (which is not compliant!)

    BINKPEXT.TXT - Which M_NUL OPT extensions are presented network wide. No one else is supporting SHA1. Only one system is running CRAM with a 1024bit public key.

    Is there anything else that would be useful to collect and report? I am debating about adding a compare of M_NUL NDL versus nodelist FLAGs - reporting variances. I also noticed a couple systems report the M_NUL TIME in non-RFC compliant format. I know authors get their feathers ruffled, but, we could use the data collected to help enforce standards (ducking from the flying tomato(s)
    on that topic)... List Argus/Radius/Taurus are not compliant in the fact they present every Command wih ^@ (nul terminator), but the specifications do not mention that. Plus the A/R/T systems put ^@^@ after the last bytes of a file transfer... not in the specifications (or I overlooked that), in the specs I recall it mentioning that some systems *may* send an empty command to denote eof, but that would be <80><0><0> in hex, not <0><0>. Of course we all worked around this and tested against Argus. Then another topic of non-compliance is jNode and Internet Rex have space in their M_NUL VER string, and per specification the only space is supposed to be between product/version/info binkp/1.0 to desinate product versus binkp core capabilities. (okay, bring the flying tomatoes...)

    Ozz

    --- dBridge & Rhenium
    * Origin: RVA Fido Support - ExchangeBBS.com, ModernPascal.com (1:275/362)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Ozz Nixon on Tuesday, July 10, 2018 17:07:18
    Hi Ozz,

    On 2018-07-10 10:29:33, you wrote to All:

    Is there anything else that would be useful to collect and report?

    Offline systems?

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)
  • From Ozz Nixon@1:275/362 to Wilfred van Velzen on Tuesday, July 10, 2018 15:37:30

    Is there anything else that would be useful to collect and report?

    Offline systems?

    I am actually working on that for 4 (four) different reports:

    A) I cannot ICMP ping the system, but it responds - e.g. a good basic level of security is implemented in the following systems (about 200 do this).

    B) Nodes flagged as ZHM only that were up and running outside that window.

    C) Nodes flagged as ZMH only that I could not connect to.

    D) Nodes flagged as Crash that I could not connect to.

    * But - before I can do all the ZMH stuff, I have to make sure I am doing the calculation for ZMH correctly - then I will generate those 4 reports (#1 is already done, but I need to implement the FLAGS before posting it - and it may be a per FREQ request - just to avoid the ill feeling I got when posting CONNSPEED.TXT to a few people - it's just a report from my system's point of view - people can get so volitile... and I wasn't even pushing any buttons (yet)). jaja.

    --- dBridge & Rhenium
    * Origin: RVA Fido Support - ExchangeBBS.com, ModernPascal.com (1:275/362)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@2:280/464 to Ozz Nixon on Wednesday, July 11, 2018 13:49:29
    Hi Ozz,

    On 2018-07-10 15:37:30, you wrote to me:

    Is there anything else that would be useful to collect and
    report?

    Offline systems?

    I am actually working on that for 4 (four) different reports:

    A) I cannot ICMP ping the system, but it responds - e.g. a good basic
    level
    of security is implemented in the following systems (about 200 do this).

    B) Nodes flagged as ZHM only that were up and running outside that window.

    C) Nodes flagged as ZMH only that I could not connect to.

    D) Nodes flagged as Crash that I could not connect to.

    E) Nodes where the listed domain name doesn't resolve.

    Bye, Wilfred.

    --- FMail-lnx64 2.1.0.18-B20170815
    * Origin: FMail development HQ (2:280/464)