Subj : Candidates vision request
To   : Carol Shenkenberger
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Thu Dec 06 2018 12:38 am

Hello Carol,

On Tuesday December 04 2018 21:46, you wrote to me:

 MV>> ,100,Shenks_Express,Virginia_Beach_VA,Carol_Shenkenberger,-Unpubl
 MV>> ished-, 300,XX,CM,INA:shenks.synchro.net,IBN:shenks.dyndns.org

 MV>> Can you tell us according to what part(s) of which FTSC
 MV>> standard(s) this nodelist entry contains information that is
 MV>> never used by a properly configured mailer?

FAIL.

From FTS-5001.006:

  INA           This flag sets a default server address used
                 for any Internet Protocol Flag that does not
                 specify its own.

So, a properly configured binkp mailer will see that the IBN flag carries a 
server address. It will use that and nothing alse to connect. A binkp mailer 
will NOT look at the INA flag since that is to be used for any other protocol 
who's flag has no server address of its own. But there are no other IP protocol 
flags. So no mailer will ever use the server address from the INA flag. The INA 
flag is dead wood. It is "unreachable code".

 CS> What standards do you show to represent when a site has 2 resolving
 CS> addresses, one preferred for IBN but the other for everything?  Z1
 CS> practical resolution, yet another thing not documented.

It /IS/ documented. FTS-5001.006:

  Multihomed systems
  ------------------

  Multihomed systems or systems that are otherwise reacheable by more
  than one address, may - instead of adding another A or AAAA record
  to the DNS zone of the host name - repeat the flag(s) carrying the
  address with another address.

  Example: IBN:host1.example1.tld,IBN:host2.example2.tld
  Or:      INA:host1.example1.tld,INA:host2.example2.tld,IBN


This was discussed by the FTSC members in the Private FTSC area in 2017. You 
are an FTSC member, you were there. Apparently you did not pay attention.

 CS> The world is not black and white.

Some things ARE black and white. A woman is either pregnant or she is not. One 
can not be a little bit pregnant.

FTS-5001 is clear. Sorry Carol, the listing for 1: 275/100 is not FTSC 
complient. And you failed to see why. You failed the test.



Cheers, Michiel

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