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|    Robert Wolfe to Tom De Puysseleyr    |
|    Re: IRex not using nodelist?    |
|    12 Mar 19 17:28:39    |
      TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A43       TZUTC: -0500       MSGID: 1:116/18 1550bb94       -=> Tom De Puysseleyr wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-               KW> fidonet.net is no longer working, but I think that if you replace        KW> fidonet.net in your config with binkp.net it should resolve.               TDP> Something like this might work. But I can't find such a setting in the        TDP> config. There's "domains", but they all say "fidonet", not fidonet.net        TDP> ...               The "domains" setting in this context should not be anything like        "binkp.net" as IIRC, that has nothing to do with Internet connectivity        to other nodes -- just to identify AKAs with networks.               KW> I haven't fired up irex in a while; if it can read a nodelist it        KW> should be able to pull the hostname from the nodelist...        TDP> That's exactly what I thought it should do :)               I always have my netmail routed through my NC. I think IREX handles        domain names in nodelists IF the application that compiled the nodelist        does not ignore that flag in the nodelist. If it does, then I believe        Internet Rex follows that same logic.              ... Teaching: Appearing to have known your subject forever.       ___ MultiMail/OS/2 v0.50              --- Mystic BBS/QWK v1.12 A43 2019/02/03 (Windows/32)        * Origin: Omicron Theta * Southaven MS * winserver.org:2300 (1:116/18)       SEEN-BY: 15/2 57/0 123/1970 153/250 226/17 229/107 275 426 452 1014       SEEN-BY: 240/5832 249/206 317 267/800 292/854 317/2 3 322/757 342/200       SEEN-BY: 393/68 770/0 1 10 100 330 340 772/0 1 210 500       PATH: 116/18 261/38 153/7715 250 770/1 393/68 229/426           |
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