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  • Issue connecting Synchronet BBS to FSXnet

    From Nightfox@21:1/101 to All on Tue May 7 04:58:57 2019
    Hi all,

    This past weekend, I got my BBS (Digital Distortion) set up on FSXNet. I'm using Synchronet's BinkIt mailer. I've been seeing an issue.. I've sent a
    few test messages, and for some packets, it seems it's able to connect to the hub successfully (with the correct address and port), but it also tries to connect to f100.n1.z27.example.com:24554, which is the wrong address and port for the hub. I'm not sure where it's getting that. Are there any other Synchronet sysops on FSXnet who have seen that issue?

    Most recently, when I send a test message and run Synchronet's BINKOUT event, it looks like it connects to the correct address & port, and then immediately afterwards, it tries to connect to the incorrect one noted above.

    Nightfox

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From poindexter FORTRAN@21:4/122 to Nightfox on Mon May 6 10:34:01 2019
    Re: Issue connecting Synchronet BBS to FSXnet
    By: Nightfox to All on Tue May 07 2019 04:58 am

    Most recently, when I send a test message and run Synchronet's BINKOUT event, it looks like it connects to the correct address & port, and then immediately afterwards, it tries to connect to the incorrect one noted above.

    Do you have a stale .*LO file in your outbound? Might be that there's a file left over from when you were configuring binkit?
    --- SBBSecho 3.07-Win32
    * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org (21:4/122)
  • From Al@21:4/106 to Nightfox on Mon May 6 11:19:20 2019
    Hi Nightfox,

    This past weekend, I got my BBS (Digital Distortion) set up on FSXNet. I'm using Synchronet's BinkIt mailer. I've been seeing an issue.. I've sent a few test messages, and for some packets, it seems it's able to connect to the hub successfully (with the correct address and port), but it also tries to connect to f100.n1.z27.example.com:24554, which is the wrong address and port for the hub. I'm not sure where it's getting that. Are there any other Synchronet sysops on FSXnet who have seen that issue?

    It looks like your mailer is looking for a node in zone 27.

    Most recently, when I send a test message and run Synchronet's BINKOUT event, it looks like it connects to the correct address & port, and then immediately afterwards, it tries to connect to the incorrect one noted above.

    I suspect a wrong *.?LO as Poindexter suggested.

    I was using SBBS and BinkIT a while back (still do). BinkIT is my favorite of all the mailer we have available today.

    --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue May 7 09:34:01 2019
    Do you have a stale .*LO file in your outbound? Might be that there's a file left over from when you were configuring binkit?

    Yesterday I noticed I do have a file that seemed to be waiting in my
    outbound, but its timestamp was after I had supposedly fixed some issues. Maybe I'll remove the file and see what happens.

    Nightfox

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)
  • From Nightfox@21:1/101 to Al on Tue May 7 09:35:54 2019
    It looks like your mailer is looking for a node in zone 27.

    I'm not sure why..

    I suspect a wrong *.?LO as Poindexter suggested.

    I may indeed have a bad *.?LO file.

    I was using SBBS and BinkIT a while back (still do). BinkIT is my
    favorite of all the mailer we have available today.

    I was using Radius for a while, but I switched to BinkIt after giving it a
    try. I like its integration with Synchronet, and also since it's written in JavaScript, it will run anywhere Synchronet runs. If I ever decide to move
    my BBS from Windows to Linux, I wouldn't have to worry about the mailer.

    Nightfox

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
    * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)