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  • Re: AmiBinkD Support

    From Joacim Melin@39:160/242 to Gary McCulloch on Sunday, August 11, 2019 11:32:48
    I am running a ClassicWB_UAE Emulated Amiga using WinUAE and Workbench
    3.1 on a dedicated Windows 10 64 bit PC. My system boots up to
    windows, then
    full screen to my Amiga. It loads C-Net and AmiBinkD; my front end mailer. I
    have all the settings set and the system is doing very good for 5 different
    networks. I poll from 2 different systems and I will be happy to
    share my
    set-up and help anyone else that would like to stop using Windows as
    much as
    possable and try to keep it all Amiga. If you are running your BBS
    from the
    real deal and would like to get AmiBinkD going. Just let me know.

    Question: how often does AmiBinkD crash? I tried to run every version out there a couple of years ago (the last one being 9.04 I think) and they all crash within a couple of hours, taking the Amiga with it.

    If it doesn't crash I sure would like to know who you did it. :)


    --- NiKom v2.5.0
    * Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (39:160/242.0)
  • From Joacim Melin@39:160/242 to Ingo Juergensmann on Sunday, August 11, 2019 11:37:58
    Hello Gary!

    20 May 19 20:15, you wrote to all:

    So, what is the issues when using AmiBinkd?? Most of the ones
    we ran into. When I say we, I am talking about Reign of Fire and
    Future World II. We just added a script to check if the server is
    running and loaded the server if not. Run it every 30 minutes along
    with the polling and everything works out.

    Well, my current issue with Amibinkd is: it crashes with an illegal instruction when polling.

    binkd is latest from Aminet
    (http://aminet.net/package/comm/net/binkd) and ixemul.library is
    48.3-3 (http://aminet.net/package/dev/lib/ixemul-48.3-bin-m68k).

    It connects and then crashes:

    - 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] SYS AmigaXess.2
    - 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] ZYZ Ingo Juergensmann
    - 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] LOC Georgsmarienhuette, Germany
    - 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] NDL 57600,TCP,BINKP
    - 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] TIME Mon, 6 May 2013 11:18:01 +0000
    - 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] VER binkd v2.0m68k/Amiga binkp/2.0
    + 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 2:2452/413.2@fidonet
    + 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 21:1/110.2@fsxnet
    + 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 39:170/400.2@amiganet
    + 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] addr: 314:314/75.2@pinet
    - 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] OPT NDA EXTCMD CRYPT
    + 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] Remote supports asymmetric ND mode
    + 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] Remote supports EXTCMD mode
    + 08 Jun 01:22:11 [5322] Remote requests CRYPT mode

    Any idea?

    I never got encrypted sessions to work with ANY of the AmiBinkd versions I was able to find (the last one I ran was 9.02, not 9.04 as stated earlier) - they would all crash upon connecting. I think it's the same with the Binkd port that's on Aminet too.


    --- NiKom v2.5.0
    * Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (39:160/242.0)
  • From Joacim Melin@39:160/242 to Ingo Juergensmann on Sunday, August 11, 2019 11:41:05
    Hello Ingo!

    09 Jun 19 13:42, I wrote to Gary McCulloch:


    Hello Gary!
    Well, there is no substantial difference in the config.
    When calling binkd in a shell, it reports version binkd 2.0/m68k 2011
    by Rudi. When you state that your version 9 is from Aminet as well,
    then I wonder where did you downloaded it actually, because I
    downloaded the newest upload from Aminet.

    Ok, found version 9.02 in the meanwhile, but not on Aminet: https://sites.google.com/site/fidonetbe/announcements/amibinkdftnmaile rforamiga

    When using the included ixemul.library, the system crashes after
    receing EMSI header, after stating that the remote set unsecure
    session. And when using something like Mail:outbound as path, it
    complains that it can't open ./mail:/outbound for creating dlo...

    hmmm...

    Ingo


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    5853 8001
    970/0

    I have collecting most of the versions I was able to find on my FTP server, ftp.fidonet.io. It's under /pub/BBS and Fidonet Software/Fidonet Software/Amiga/AmiBinkD.


    --- NiKom v2.5.0
    * Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (39:160/242.0)
  • From Wilfred van Velzen@39:150/200 to Joacim Melin on Sunday, August 11, 2019 13:19:43
    Hi Joacim,

    On 2019-08-11 11:32:48, you wrote to Gary McCulloch:

    Question: how often does AmiBinkD crash? I tried to run every version
    out there a couple of years ago (the last one being 9.04 I think) and
    they all crash within a couple of hours, taking the Amiga with it.

    If it doesn't crash I sure would like to know who you did it. :)

    I remember vaguely someone mentioning you need to increase the stack, to make it run stable...

    Bye, Wilfred.

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    * Origin: FMail development HQ (39:150/200)
  • From Frank Linhares@39:905/0 to Wilfred van Velzen on Sunday, August 11, 2019 07:51:14
    Question: how often does AmiBinkD crash? I tried to run every versio out there a couple of years ago (the last one being 9.04 I think) and they all crash within a couple of hours, taking the Amiga with it.

    If it doesn't crash I sure would like to know who you did it. :)

    I remember vaguely someone mentioning you need to increase the stack, to make it run stable...

    You do. I find a stack of 20000 makes it happy.

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  • From Joacim Melin@39:160/242 to Wilfred van Velzen on Sunday, August 11, 2019 18:05:31
    Hi Joacim,

    On 2019-08-11 11:32:48, you wrote to Gary McCulloch:

    Question: how often does AmiBinkD crash? I tried to run every version
    out there a couple of years ago (the last one being 9.04 I think) and
    they all crash within a couple of hours, taking the Amiga with it.

    If it doesn't crash I sure would like to know who you did it. :)

    I remember vaguely someone mentioning you need to increase the
    stack, to make it run stable...

    Bye, Wifred

    I remember increasing the stack from everything from 50000 to 100000 and it still crashed.


    --- NiKom v2.5.0
    * Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (39:160/242.0)
  • From Frank Linhares@39:905/0 to Joacim Melin on Sunday, August 11, 2019 14:26:00
    I remember increasing the stack from everything from 50000 to 100000 and it stil l crashed.

    Have you tried EMSI over telnet?

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  • From Joacim Melin@39:160/242 to Frank Linhares on Sunday, August 11, 2019 20:41:10
    I remember increasing the stack from everything from 50000 to 100000 and
    it stil l crashed.

    Have you tried EMSI over telnet?

    Not with Binkd on the Amiga but we tried to get it working well with FrontDoor under Windows/MS-DOS and it... works.. kind of. Tons of re-sends, timeouts and other things.


    --- NiKom v2.5.0
    * Origin: Delta City (deltacity.se, Vallentuna, Sweden) (39:160/242.0)
  • From Frank Linhares@39:905/0 to Joacim Melin on Sunday, August 11, 2019 15:54:18
    Not with Binkd on the Amiga but we tried to get it working well with FrontDoor u nder Windows/MS-DOS and it... works.. kind of. Tons of re-sends, timeouts and ot her things.

    I have gotten Trapdoor on the Amiga working well with iffico on Linux as well as Zeus's built in EMSI mailer and a wifi modem.

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  • From Gary McCulloch@1:931/931 to All on Monday, August 12, 2019 10:15:30
    I am still using AmibinkD to poll 5 different networks. K-Guide from Future World II BBS has a script that looks for AmibinkD and re-starts it if it
    crashes. I am using this and it runs every 30 minutes at the same time I am also polling for my networks.

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