• Re: Packet PW

    From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Joe Delahaye on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 06:25:53
    Joe Delahaye wrote to All <=-

    I have not seen it referred to, so I am wondering. Since shortly after the upgrade to sbbsecho.v3, I had one node not tossing mail all of a sudden. Looking at the log files, there was an entry for a pcket PW missing. Found "" expected Password. I never had a packet PW with
    this node. He does not have one configured for me either. Yesterday another contact the same. No Packet Pw configured ever, and yet it requires one now. It just occurred to me that both these links are running the same mailer software, one of them is the author of DB, but
    I have other links also running DB, and so far no problem with them

    To be precise, it is the session PW that is now required as the Packet
    PW as well for some reason.

    That was my issue with Robert Starr. We'd connect with session pw... but sbbsecho was saying the pkt's were bad due to a missing pkt password. I never had one for Robert although he swears we did. I wasn't going to argue over it so I just added the one he was sending over to my sbbsecho.ini.

    Here are my logs...

    2016-04-12 22:18:57 Importing (secure) 12192104.pkt (Type 2+) from 316:77/1 2016-04-12 22:18:57 Imported: 1 msgs 3whispern <- WHISPERNET_ADMIN 2016-04-12 22:18:57 Imported: 1 msgs total in 0.0 sec (3157.9/min 52.6/sec)

    Now the following day...

    2016-04-13 01:46:53 Packet c:\fd\secure\12224859.pkt from 316:77/1 - Incorrect password ('??????' instead of '')
    2016-04-13 01:46:53 Bad packet detected: c:\fd\secure\12224859.pkt


    That's a difference of 4 hours and I'll bet between those times is when Robert updated to v3.

    This went on till I noticed the bad pkts in my inbound. Once I added the PKT pw, I renamed all the BAD pkts and sbbsecho imported them. Took me a week to find it.. lol...

    2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19090240.pkt (Type 2+, 1.6KB) from 316:77/1 to 316:973/2
    2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19090721.pkt (Type 2+, 2.9KB) from 316:77/1 to 316:973/2
    2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19093025.pkt (Type 2+, 2.1KB) from 316:77/1 to 316:973/2
    2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19204934.pkt (Type 2+, 5.1KB) from 316:77/1 to 316:973/2
    2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19213626.pkt (Type 2+, 0.8KB) from 316:77/1 to 316:973/2
    2016-04-20 10:55:09 Importing c:\fd\secure\19220815.pkt (Type 2+, 1.2KB) from 316:77/1 to 316:973/2

    I also noticed a "Comment" was added in the form of the AREAFIX password we used.

    Just some thoughts...


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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Digital Man on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 06:25:53
    Digital Man wrote to Joe Delahaye <=-

    Re: Re: Packet PW
    By: Joe Delahaye to Bill McGarrity on Tue May 03 2016 05:52 pm

    I also noticed a "Comment" was added in the form of the AREAFIX password we used.


    Saw that, but not sure what that is about.

    Can you elaborate? I don't know what is meant by this... a comment in
    the sbbsecho.ini file?

    In echocfg when you bring up linked nodes, to the right of node # there was my areafix password to that node. When I viewed that particular node information, the areafix pw was there along with a new section called Comment which had the same pw in it. I removed the Comment entry and esc out and the "comment" was no longer seen on the Linked Nodes column. It only happened to Robert Starr's node.


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