home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   NET_DEV      Forum for Fidonet developer questions      342 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 148 of 342   
   ATREYU to Ozz Nixon   
   Re: Inspired by Nodelrpt.com v1.04 by K.   
      
   
   On 23 Jul 18  19:33:11, Ozz Nixon said the following to All:   
      
   ON>    Region: 12 (ON PQ NB PE NS NF)   
   ON>     
   ON>          229   249   
   ON>    Region has 2 networks, 0 hubs and 22 nodes.   
      
   It may be a good idea to scrap the "Hub" part of your report or at least make    
   it an option in whatever this program is that you wrote.   
      
   I emailed you before about this. Hubs, the NAB, "Star systems", are by and   
   large obsolete and of little importance or relevance technically and    
   politically in 2018 where almost everyone is using an Internet mailer and/or   
   peering with other systems.   
      
   At one time, the Hub field was used by certain mailers, such as D'Bridge and    
   possibly Frontdoor to indicate a system to host-route Netmail destined for a    
   Private entry - One with Pvt/Unpublished. This is also known as "Host-routing    
   privates".   
      
   For example:   
      
   1:229/800 - Hub   
   1:229/801 - Normal   
   1:229/802 - Pvt/Unpublished   
   1:229/900 - Hub   
   1:229/901 - Normal   
   1:229/902 - Normal   
   1:229/903 - Normal   
   1:229/904 - Pvt/Unpublished   
   1:229/905 - Hub   
   1:229/906 - Pvt/Unpublished   
      
   Say 1:249/1 writes Netmail to 229/802, 904 and 906. The delivery order if    
   there was no route and the mailer was configured to host-route privates, would   
   be 229/800, 900 and 905.   
      
   Thats not to say Host-route-Privates is not used at all anymore, but by and   
   large its not as my understanding is that many Sysops will crash Pvt-destined   
   Netmail through the NC of the destination-network.   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
    * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (1:229/426)   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca