Hello, mark.   
      
   06 Jul 18 19:25, you wrote to Benny Pedersen:   
      
    VS>>> that I can use the INA:fido.sibptus.ru flag all right, but   
    VS>>> cannot use the INA:node49.net5005.sibptus.ru flag? Why?   
      
    BP>> it does not work since binkd only handle single root-domain in   
    BP>> binkd.cfg   
      
    ml> binkd.conf does allow for different lookup domains... simply specify   
    ml> them on the domain line...   
      
    ml> the real question is if the FTN othernets provide DNS zone lookups for   
    ml> their networks that binkp.net provides for fidonet...   
      
    BP>> try in cfg:   
    BP>> root-domain sibptus.ru   
      
    ml> comment that out and never use it again...   
      
   Does this mean that the requirement of FTS-5004 to exclude   
   nodes which have INA flag referring to a fN.nN.zN.example.org   
   domain is a bit phony? To me, it sounds so, as the legacy software   
   doesn't (and it obviously can't) rely on it, while it solely   
   serves to help IP nodes reaching each other.   
      
   Let me allow to quote its few statements:   
      
   (a) "The fidonet.net domain however was lost for the Fidonet   
   community in 2011 when the keeper allowed it to expire."   
      
   (b) "...it is strongly recommended that implementations that make use   
   of a DDN service allow the user to easily configure the root domain   
   and to configure overrides for often used stationary links..."   
      
   Keeping in mind quoted above, this one   
      
   "If the INA flag (or any of the protocol flags) of any node carries   
   host name built from the FTN address using DDN or any other method,   
   that node MUST be skipped and MUST NOT appear in resulting NS zone.   
   In general, such names SHOULD NOT appear in the nodelist."   
      
   doesn't really look good, since as stated in (a), nobody in Fidonet   
   is able to get the proper domain name anymore, and (b) we're now   
   on our own. Hence that, it's merely a question of proper implementation   
   and its configuration.   
      
   So, for the resume (though I guess this is the question for Alexey   
   Vissarionov) -- what's the big difference, on my own example,   
   between f53.n5057.z2.binkp.net and fido.roswell.systems ?   
      
   Best regards, Ivan.   
      
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