Subj : Re: makenl sbbsecho and netmail and routing issue
To   : Ragnarok
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Tue Oct 05 2021 16:38:13

Hi Ragnarok,

On 2021-10-05 10:21:54, you wrote to me:

 >> I checked a stored message that makenl generates. It has the complete
 >> 4D address of the source and destination in the header (and also the
 >> source address in the MSGID kludge). A tosser should put those in the
 >> INTL kludge of the packed message in the .pkt file it generates. The
 >> Fuzzy Zone setting shouldn't overrule the information in an INTL kludge
 >> if present. So where does this go wrong?

 Ra> this is the example file:

 Ra> http://downloads.bbs.docksud.com.ar/tmp/1.msg

# wget http://downloads.bbs.docksud.com.ar/tmp/1.msg
--2021-10-05 16:23:36--  http://downloads.bbs.docksud.com.ar/tmp/1.msg
Resolving downloads.bbs.docksud.com.ar (downloads.bbs.docksud.com.ar)... 2001:470:1f1e:4e::2, 152.169.156.2
Connecting to downloads.bbs.docksud.com.ar (downloads.bbs.docksud.com.ar)|2001:470:1f1e:4e::2|:80...
failed: Connection timed out.
Connecting to downloads.bbs.docksud.com.ar (downloads.bbs.docksud.com.ar)|152.169.156.2|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK

It worked, but I had to wait on the timeout on the IPv6 connection. You probably have to configure a port forward in your router for IPv6! ;-)

The file looks fine. It has the correct zone in the header for the source and destination, and in the MSGID kludge...

# xxd 1.msg
0000000: 4d61 6b65 4e4c 2033 2e35 2e31 0000 0000  MakeNL 3.5.1....
0000010: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000020: 0000 0000 436f 6f72 6469 6e61 746f 7200  ....Coordinator.
0000030: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000040: 0000 0000 0000 0000 2f73 6262 732f 6669  ......../sbbs/fi
0000050: 646f 2f6d 616b 656e 6c2f 6f75 742f 6e65  do/makenl/out/ne
0000060: 742e 3934 3300 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  t.943...........
0000070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000080: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000  ................
0000090: 3033 204f 6374 2032 3120 2030 313a 3431  03 Oct 21  01:41
00000a0: 3a30 3100 0000 6400 0000 0000 af03 af03  :01...d.........
00000b0: 2700 2700 0000 0000 0000 9101 0000 014d  '.'............M
         ^^   ^^   27 hex = 39 decimal
00000c0: 5347 4944 3a20 3339 3a39 3433 2f30 2036  SGID: 39:943/0 6
00000d0: 3135 3930 3862 630d 0a00                 15908bc...


Bye, Wilfred.

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