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|    mark lewis to Tommi Koivula    |
|    binkd connecting to own AKA    |
|    13 Jan 20 11:54:00    |
      TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 484.fido-binkd@1:3634/12 2281d88c       REPLY: 2:221/6.0 5e1c9a68       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Jan 9 2020 GCC 7.4.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.149 Jan 9 2020 GCC 7.4.0       CHRS: ASCII 1       NOTE: FSEditor.js v1.103        Re: binkd connecting to own AKA        By: Tommi Koivula to mark lewis on Mon Jan 13 2020 18:27:24                      ml>> how do you prevent binkd from connecting to one of its own AKAs?               ml>> i see this from time to time and it results in a loop of the traffic        ml>> being attempted to be sent...               TK> "node 1:3634/12 do.not.poll."               TK> It may try, but it wont connect. ;)              HA! that's funny but it would work i guess LUL              it was actually calling one of my administrative AKAs for HOST routing... i'm       still looking at options...              FWIW: i did, at one time, have to put in a routing statement for my system to       route to itself because it was sending the netmail to one of my upstream links       which was sending it right back... that was a similar loop problem... i'll get       it figured out somehow... i just don't really recall other mailers being able       to connect to themselves over POTS or, as in this case, TCP/IP... it just       seems proper that the mailer would recognize the destination as one of its own       addresses and simply refuse to make the attempt at all... maybe with a       configurable option? i dunno...                     )\/(ark       --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux        * Origin: SouthEast Star Mail HUB - SESTAR (1:3634/12)       SEEN-BY: 1/120 123 14/6 18/0 90/1 103/705 116/116 123/0 25 50 115       SEEN-BY: 123/150 170 755 135/300 153/7715 154/10 203/0 221/0 1 6 242       SEEN-BY: 221/360 227/114 229/101 200 426 1014 230/0 240/5832 249/307       SEEN-BY: 249/317 261/38 280/464 5003 5555 292/854 300/4 310/31 320/219       SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 423/81 120 633/280 640/1138 1321 1384 712/848       SEEN-BY: 770/1 2452/250 3634/0 12 15 27 50 119       PATH: 3634/12 640/1384 221/1 280/464 229/426           |
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