Hi all,

I've been using binkd without a nodelist, just sending everything through hubs and discovered that with Synchronet you can but CR: on the subject line and it'll send direct to the receiving node.

I tried that and I see a .cut file stuck in my /sbbs/fido/outbound box.

Obviously I'm missing some configurtion item but I'm not sure what I need to add to enable sending to a node using the binkp.net dns lookup. I do have

root-domain binkp.net


configured. Would appreciate any assitance.

Thanks,
Nigel
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Re: binkd/dns/no nodelist howto?
By: Nigel Reed to Fidonet.BINKD on Sat Dec 19 2020 10:06 pm

root-domain binkp.net

configured. Would appreciate any assitance.

I'm not certain but I think adding the defnode statement might help if you don't have that enabled already.

My sample binkd.conf has..

defnode -nd *, but I haven't tried polling an unlisted node.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Alan wrote:

Re: binkd/dns/no nodelist howto?
By: Nigel Reed to Fidonet.BINKD on Sat Dec 19 2020 10:06 pm

root-domain binkp.net

configured. Would appreciate any assitance.

I'm not certain but I think adding the defnode statement might help if you don't have that enabled already.

My sample binkd.conf has..

defnode -nd *, but I haven't tried polling an unlisted node.

Not sure about that. First, it seems I had to do a binkd -p to force it to poll. Then when I did I got all sorts of connections going on.

19 Dec 22:45:30 [1511795] rcvd msg ADR 1:249/110@fidonet
? 22:45 [1511795] called 1:249/110@advnet, but remote has no such AKA

19 Dec 22:46:22 [649] 900:104/1@agoranet busy, skipping
19 Dec 22:46:22 [649] 110:110/2@amiganet busy, skipping


A couple of pages of those for different nets.
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Re: Re: binkd/dns/no nodelist howto?
By: Nigel Reed to Alan Ianson on Sat Dec 19 2020 10:48 pm

Not sure about that. First, it seems I had to do a binkd -p to force it to poll. Then when I did I got all sorts of connections going on.

19 Dec 22:45:30 [1511795] rcvd msg ADR 1:249/110@fidonet
? 22:45 [1511795] called 1:249/110@advnet, but remote has no such AKA

For some reason the wrong domain is being used. I don't know how to explain or fix that.

If I wanted to poll your node I would do..

binkd -pP 1:124/5016 binkd.conf

If I got the wrong domain I would try -pP 1:124/5016@fidonet.

Binkd will poll your node then, and may poll other nodes also if there is stuff in the outbound waiting to go.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Nigel wrote (2020-12-19):

Not sure about that. First, it seems I had to do a binkd -p to force it to poll. Then when I did I got all sorts of connections going on.

19 Dec 22:45:30 [1511795] rcvd msg ADR 1:249/110@fidonet
? 22:45 [1511795] called 1:249/110@advnet, but remote has no such AKA

19 Dec 22:46:22 [649] 900:104/1@agoranet busy, skipping
19 Dec 22:46:22 [649] 110:110/2@amiganet busy, skipping

A couple of pages of those for different nets.

So you have that setup where all domains use the same default zone number? Like

domain amiganet /ftn/outbound/amiganet 1

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Alan wrote:

Re: Re: binkd/dns/no nodelist howto?
By: Nigel Reed to Alan Ianson on Sat Dec 19 2020 10:48 pm

Not sure about that. First, it seems I had to do a binkd -p to force it to
poll. Then when I did I got all sorts of connections going on.

19 Dec 22:45:30 [1511795] rcvd msg ADR 1:249/110@fidonet
? 22:45 [1511795] called 1:249/110@advnet, but remote has no such AKA

For some reason the wrong domain is being used. I don't know how to explain or fix that.

If I wanted to poll your node I would do..

binkd -pP 1:124/5016 binkd.conf

If I got the wrong domain I would try -pP 1:124/5016@fidonet.

Binkd will poll your node then, and may poll other nodes also if there is stuff in the outbound waiting to go.

If I had a user using this method to send a netmail (or myself for that fact), I shouldn't have to manually do a poll. If it's in outgoing, binkd should pick it up and do whatever it's supposed to do with it. I con't see the point in flagging something for "crash" if it's not going to go through the while process.
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Re: Re: binkd/dns/no nodelist howto?
By: Nigel Reed to Alan Ianson on Sun Dec 20 2020 01:32 am

If I had a user using this method to send a netmail (or myself for that fact), I shouldn't have to manually do a poll. If it's in outgoing, binkd should pick it up and do whatever it's supposed to do with it. I con't see the point in flagging something for "crash" if it's not going to go through the while process.

My binkd is daemonized so it sends everything when it rescans the outbound. There is no need to create polls in that case.

When you run binkd with the -p option it will behave the same way, it will scan your outbound and send whatever is in the outbound and quit.

Ttyl :-),
Al

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Oli wrote:

Nigel wrote (2020-12-19):

Not sure about that. First, it seems I had to do a binkd -p to force it to
poll. Then when I did I got all sorts of connections going on.

19 Dec 22:45:30 [1511795] rcvd msg ADR 1:249/110@fidonet
? 22:45 [1511795] called 1:249/110@advnet, but remote has no such AKA

19 Dec 22:46:22 [649] 900:104/1@agoranet busy, skipping
19 Dec 22:46:22 [649] 110:110/2@amiganet busy, skipping

A couple of pages of those for different nets.

So you have that setup where all domains use the same default zone number? Like

domain amiganet /ftn/outbound/amiganet 1

That's how I was told to set it up when I started adding "othernets". It has worked fine upto this point.
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Alan wrote:

Re: Re: binkd/dns/no nodelist howto?
By: Nigel Reed to Alan Ianson on Sun Dec 20 2020 01:32 am

If I had a user using this method to send a netmail (or myself for that fact), I shouldn't have to manually do a poll. If it's in outgoing, binkd
should pick it up and do whatever it's supposed to do with it. I con't see
the point in flagging something for "crash" if it's not going to go through the while process.

My binkd is daemonized so it sends everything when it rescans the outbound. There is no need to create polls in that case.

When you run binkd with the -p option it will behave the same way, it will scan your outbound and send whatever is in the outbound and quit.

Yes, it runs as a daemon.
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Nigel wrote (2020-12-21):

So you have that setup where all domains use the same default zone
number? Like

domain amiganet /ftn/outbound/amiganet 1

That's how I was told to set it up when I started adding "othernets". It has worked fine upto this point.

It's in the Binkd FAQ too, but I experienced similar problems, when I tried the 4D setup. Never worked for me. If you do have a 5D tosser, it's better to not use this workaround (IMO).

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Oli wrote:

Nigel wrote (2020-12-21):

So you have that setup where all domains use the same default zone
number? Like

domain amiganet /ftn/outbound/amiganet 1

That's how I was told to set it up when I started adding "othernets". It has worked fine upto this point.

It's in the Binkd FAQ too, but I experienced similar problems, when I tried the 4D setup. Never worked for me. If you do have a 5D tosser, it's better to not use this workaround (IMO).

I believe Synchronet is. I'll maybe experiment tomorrow when I'm supposed to
be working :)
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