Subj : Nodes location. Funny statistics.
To   : Nick Boel
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Thu Aug 07 2025 12:13 pm

Hello Nick,

On Wednesday August 06 2025 17:20, you wrote to me:

 NB> Hey Michiel!

 NB> On Wed, Aug 06 2025 03:20:58 -0500, you wrote:

 NB> So what you're saying here is, there is no possibly way someone could
 NB> advertise an AAAA record without them manually configuring it at their
 NB> DNS provider?

after having read Dennis'and WIlfred's comments let me say that I have yet to 
come across a syosp - or non sysop for that matter- who claims "I have no idea 
how that AAAA record got into my host name, but it certainly wasn't me doing 
it".

 >> So the question "if the sysop is unaware that he/she has IPv6,
 >> where do these AAAA records come from" remains unanswered.

 NB> That's the same question I'm hung up on then.

And it still is not answered to my satisfaction.

 >> Possibly. So these nodes have become zombie nodes for all intents
 >> an puposes?

 NB> I imagine there's quite a few. Did the most recent report from Dmitry
 NB> show about 25% of Fidonet participants are dead wood? ;)

Yes, and I am not surprised.

But here we are confronted with a next level issue. We see systems that are up 
and running, the binkd server answers (IPv4 only) and *.PKTs are accepted. And 
there it ends. A more general problem not limited to IPv6. I call them zombie 
systems. They appear to be alive but the sysop is ... not responding.

 >> So have I. I have no idea what we can do to remedie the situation.

 NB> I'm not so sure we can.

Indeed.


Cheers, Michiel

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