• Re: Zone Blind...

    From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Joe Delahaye on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 06:26:01
    Joe Delahaye wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

    Hiya Joe...


    The issue is with Zone Blind toggle. If I don't want one network's addresses to appear in the seen-by and path lines of another, should that toggle be "enabled" or "disabled"? If enabled, that brings us to another issue that I was told to add a 4 at the end of the Zone_Blind in the sbbsecho.cfg file. I am assuming that means the first 4 zones should be considered as one. Over the past few weeks with the issues of the INTL kludge line in echomail (which was determined sbbsecho was not to blame) my head is spinning.... not that it doesn't normally spin anyway.


    The way to use it as we have for international traffic Bill, is how I mentioned it to you. If you toggle Zone Blind on again, you will run
    into seen by problems again.

    Nick just told me differently... and I edited sbbsecho.cfg to Zone_Blind 4. I'll make one more test... this is nuts... lol!!

    Thanks..


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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Nicholas Boel on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 06:26:01
    Nicholas Boel wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

    Hiya Nick...


    Quick question if I may.

    Quick answer if I might!

    Might as well... :)

    The issue is with Zone Blind toggle. If I don't want one network's addresses to appear in the seen-by and path lines of another, should
    that toggle be "enabled" or "disabled"? If enabled, that brings us to another issue that I was told to add a 4 at the end of the Zone_Blind in the sbbsecho.cfg file. I am assuming that means the first 4 zones
    should be considered as one. Over the past few weeks with the issues of the INTL kludge line in echomail (which was determined sbbsecho was not
    to blame) my head is spinning.... not that it doesn't normally spin anyway.

    No need for your head to spin.

    With the day I've had it's lucky it's just spinning.. :)


    So, going back to Rob.. he added an optional number after the
    ZONE_BLIND option. This way you can do ZONE_BLIND 4 and zones 1 through
    4 will keep all SEEN-BYs in those zones, but anything AFTER 4 will not.

    OK, I now have ZONE_BLIND 4 in the cfg. Hopefully this will resolve the issues.


    Either way, it's tried and tested here, working great for Fidonet, and
    the rest of the networks separately.

    I'll be doing a test with Andrew Leary tonight... hopefully this will resolve it.

    BTW, the INTL kludge stuffing wasn't any kind of scare except to the original person that posted about it when they realized it was their
    own system. LOL!

    LOL... I know that now... :)

    Thanks Nick...


    Bill

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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to Kees van Eeten on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 06:26:01
    Kees van Eeten wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-

    Hiya Kees...

    Hello Bill!

    With whatever settings you sent the below message, the result is what
    is wanted.

    Problem is, you see the 100/24 and 973/2, those are from WhisperNet and MicroNet and shouldn't be there.. or am I not understanding correctly? I am also putting my Fido node in MicroNet to messages there.

    I will comment on your nect two as well, as they have the PATH
    stripped.

    I saw that...

    07 Mei 14 23:07, you wrote to Nicholas Boel:

    @TZUTC: -0400
    @MSGID: 1111.2syncsyso@1:266/404 17d02f09
    @REPLY: 1:154/701 44a793c8
    @TID: SBBSecho 2.27-Win32 r1.252 May 7 2014 MSC 1800
    Hiya Nick...

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    SEEN-BY: 100/24 154/10 203/0 124 221/1 249/303 261/38 266/404 280/5003
    ^^^^^^
    5006
    SEEN-BY: 320/119 973/2
    ^^^^^

    @PATH: 266/404 203/0 280/5003 5006




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  • From Bill McGarrity@1:266/404 to mark lewis on Tuesday, November 07, 2017 06:26:01
    mark lewis wrote to Nicholas Boel <=-

    Hiya mark...

    On Fri, 09 May 2014, Nicholas Boel wrote to Bill McGarrity:

    Here's the SEEN-BYs and PATHs I see here from your message. It
    looks like you fixed it! Odd that it needed a complete server
    reboot, but... your othernet node numbers definitely aren't there anymore! :)

    SEEN-BY: 154/10 203/0 124 221/1 249/303 261/38 266/404 280/5003
    320/119
    SEEN-BY: 123/500 227/201 154/701 10 0
    @PATH: 266/404 203/0 154/10

    i've seen bill's posts arrive here via two different paths... one
    carries the errant entries in the seenbys and the other does not... one
    of the first different systems in the path uses sync (nickB) and the
    other does not (andrewL)... this may be a distraction because i don't
    know if bill changed anything between the messages being written...

    Right now it seems to be working correctly but as I said, I rebooted the server. It seems that after a couple of days it reverts back. I'm not sure if it's Sync or windoze. Everything in the config remains the same regarding zone blind. I have the 4 after it. I am not a coder so the only person I can rely on is Rob. I guess every few days I'll have to check an outgoing packet and see if the problem is back. If so, then reboot...:/

    Thanks...


    Bill

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