Subj : Re: ping / traceroute
To   : Dennis Slagers
From : Jay Harris
Date : Thu Oct 31 2024 04:44 pm

On 30 Oct 2024, Dennis Slagers said the following...

 DS> Is there any utility available to have a robot function working to allow
 DS> a response to PING and TRACE(route) ?
 DS> 
 DS> anyone with hints/tips/scripts?

I downloaded Deon George's fidohub source once upon a time which contained a modified version of pong.pl.  I butchered it up a bit to add a few things and change some others.

You're welcome to give it a try:

https://nrbbs.net/pong.pl.txt

This one accepts ping messages addressed in either case (e.g: Ping, ping, PING or even PiNg) and kills the original incoming message once processed.  It also handles the kludges a bit differently.

I'm not a programmer or anything, so this may not be the best or even the correct way to do any of this.  It seems to work here well enough but if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.  If anyone has any suggestions or modifications I'd be happy to see them.


Jay

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