Greetings All!

So while setting up a new node on my fidohub I ran into an interesting issue, not sure if its new or not. I got this new sysop setup and he sent the hub an areafix message which my system processed, however it caused me to receive around 500 netmails from my uplink claiming bad credentials, so I questioned new sysop to make sure he was sending areafix to me and not nick andre. he was certain addressed correctly and so on. I then decided to test areafix and went on one my BBS's and just sent areafix a %LIST which is processed correctly however over the next 2 hours I received more than 23k (yes twenty three thousand) netmails from my uplink stating bad credentials. So after all that explanation I have but one question?

Why would my hub pass anything along areafix wise that it could handle itself to the uplinK?? It should not do that unless one of my nodes requests something that I do not carry etc... Ok two questions; where can I look or what can I look for in my config that would cause such an action?



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Regards,


Rick Smith (Nitro)

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Hello All!

My uplink asked me to stop sending robot messages to him, had no idea what he was talking about so I checked the logs and my system seems to be sending a lot of netmail to him. Here is just an example of what I found maybe is a clue to what is happening...

areafix: write notification msg for 1:229/426

In one part of the log my system sent him 7 or 8 netmails in the wee hours so I know it wasnt me doing it..

Regards,

Rick

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