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   * Forwarded by Vince Coen (2:250/1)   
   * Area : BINKD (The ubiquitous BinkD TCP/IP FTN mailer a)   
   * From : Lars Kellogg-Stedman, 1:123/789 (10 Mar 11 12:56)   
   * To   : All   
   * Subj : binkp statistics from the nodelist   
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   BinkP Statistics From the Nodelist   
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   by Lars Kellogg-Stedman, 1:322/761   
      
   I've recently been working on a suite [*] of Fidonet related software.   
   One of my projects has been a router that can make routing decisions   
   based on nodelist flags.  This lets me specify a routing configuration   
   like this...   
      
     route-to 1:322/759 *   
     no-route @IBN:1:*   
      
   ....and have mail to nodes (in zone 1) flying the IBN flag delivered   
   directly while sending everything else via my uplink.  This means I've   
   been spending quite a lot of time looking at the nodelist.   
      
   I've also written some low-level code for sending and receiving binkp   
   protocol frames.   
      
   I put everything together and audited all the nodes in the nodelist   
   flying the IBN flag, and I thought the following statistics may be of   
   general interest.   
      
   [*] http://projects.oddbit.com/python-ftn   
      
   OVERALL STATISTICS   
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   This audit was generated using nodelist 063 of Friday, March 4, 2011.   
      
   +------------------+------+   
   | Total nodes      | 4117 |   
   +------------------+------+   
   | Nodes flying IBN | 1379 |   
   +------------------+------+   
      
   CONNECTION STATISTICS   
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   For each node flying the IBN flag, I tried to determine the IP address   
   of the node from the nodelist.  You can see the actual code used to do   
   this extraction at https://gist.github.com/864290.  In general, the   
   code takes the first of:   
      
   - An address attached to the IBN flag   
   - An address stored in the system name field   
   - An address attached to the IP or INA flag   
   - An address encoded in the phone number field   
      
   After determining the address, I attempt a connection to the remote   
   host and record the M_NUL messages from the remote mailer.   
      
   SUMMARY RESULTS   
      
   +-----------------------+-----+   
   | Successful connection | 619 |   
   +-----------------------+-----+   
   | Connection failed     | 754 |   
   +-----------------------+-----+   
      
   BREAKDOWN OF CONNECTION FAILURES   
      
   This is a breakdown of the reasons why I was unable to successfully   
   connect to the remote system.   
      
   Connection failures       |   
   --------------------------+------------------------------------------------   
   Hostname lookup failed    | #################### (161) ##   
   Remote closed connection  | # (3)   
   Unspecified network error | ############# (125) ##   
   Timed out                 | ###################################### (263) ##   
   No address in nodelist    | ########################### (202) ##   
      
   IBN MAILER STATISTICS   
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   For successful connections I try to determine what remote mailer is in   
   use from the VER message (and then normalize the results by stripping   
   out versions/platforms/etc).   
      
   Mailer       |   
   -------------+-------------------------------------------------------------   
   HtBinkD      | # (1)   
   T-Mail       | # (1)   
   binkleyforce | ## (13)   
   binkd        | ################################################### (400) ##   
   Internet Rex | ######## (50)   
   qico         | #### (21)   
   Argus        | ####### (42)   
   Taurus       | ### (18)   
   ROSBink      | # (2)   
   Radius       | ##### (28)   
   FTNMail      | # (1)   
   BBBS         | ### (15)   
   Beemail      | # (1)   
   mbcico       | #### (23)   
      
   BINKD MAILER STATISTICS   
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   For systems running BinkD, we can look at the version in use and the   
   platforms on which they are running.   
      
   BINKD VERSIONS IN USE   
      
   The versions are normalized by stripping off the first non-digit   
   character and everything after that (so 0.9.9a and 0.9.9beta2 both   
   collapse to 0.9.9).   
      
   Version |   
   --------+------------------------------------------------------------------   
   0.9.1   | # (1)   
   0.9.2   | ##### (11)   
   0.9.3   | #### (9)   
   0.9.4   | ######### (39) ##   
   0.9.5   | ## (24) ##   
   0.9.6   | ######## (17)   
   0.9.7   | ## (25) ##   
   0.9.8   | ## (25) ##   
   0.9.9   | ############################## (87) ##   
   1.0a    | ######################################################## (146) ##   
   0.9.50  | # (1)   
   0.9.10  | ###### (13)   
   0.9.11  | # (1)   
   0.8.x   | # (1)   
      
   OS PLATFORMS   
      
   Operating system |   
   -----------------+---------------------------------------------------------   
   OpenBSD          | # (1)   
   Win95            | # (1)   
   Win9x            | # (1)   
   OS/2             | ##################### (67) ##   
   Amiga            | # (1)   
   Win32            | ########################################### (117) ##   
   FreeBSD          | ############################## (86) ##   
   Linux            | ############################################### (124) ##   
   NT               | # (2)   
      
   THE END   
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   If you've found this analysis useful or interesting, I'd love to hear   
   from you.  You can reach me via netmail to 1:322/761, or via email to   
   lars@oddbit.com.   
      
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   Hello All!   
      
   Interesting stats:   
      
   mbcico & Linux   
      
      
      
   Vince   
      
   --- Linux/Mbse/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5   
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