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   Message 1,213 of 2,396   
   Bill McGarrity to Nicholas Boel   
   Re: Zone Blind...   
   07 May 14 23:07:00   
   
   Hiya Nick...   
      
   -=> Nicholas Boel wrote to Bill McGarrity <=-   
      
    BM> I did all you said in adding ZONE_BLIND 4 to the cfg and it still sent   
    BM> out my aka's in the seen-by's.  I disabled the ZONE Blind option and now   
    BM> it strips my aka's.  Cound Rob have done some other coding for this?   
    BM> This message has the toggle set to disable and there in no ZONE_BLIND   
    BM> statement in the cfg.  Check the paths and seenbys to see if 100/24 and   
    BM> 973/2 are still there.   
      
    NB> It strips your AKAs, as well as any other nodes in other zones other   
    NB> than zone 1 out of the PATH statement. See the PATH I have here for   
    NB> this message as evidence. Bjorn in Zone 2 to me in Zone 1. The system   
    NB> see where the issues lie in regards to their experiment?   
      
    NB> Using ZONE_BLIND by itself would include every one of your addresses   
      
    NB> The "ZONE_BLIND 4" option should only include your fidonet addresses,   
      
    NB> If you had ZONE_BLIND 4 as the first line in your sbbsecho.cfg, you   
    NB> shouldn't have sent out any other addresses besides your 1:* ones. If   
    NB> you did, then something wasn't done properly. Did you try recycling   
    NB> Synchronet?   
      
    NB> Joe is using this same feature on Win32, and it seems to be working   
    NB> fine for him. I'm not sure what the deal is seeing as though I'm   
    NB> running Linux here.   
      
    NB> I can't really get the facts out of your message currently, because   
    NB> someone between you and I are also stripping zones out of the PATH line   
    NB> (Probably Ross, since HPT doesn't have an option to change that, but   
    NB> hopefully it will in the future).   
      
   OK, I reconfigured it as your said, ZONE_BLIND 4 and completely restarted the   
   server.  I'll try and capture this message on the way out in my outbound folder   
   and see what seen-bys and path statements are in the message.  I will post said   
   results in next message...    
      
      
   Bill   
      
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