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  • Issues with PING functionality

    From Tommi Koivula@1:396/4 to All on Monday, April 18, 2022 01:07:58
    From: nospam.Tommi.Koivula@f360.n221.z2.fidonet.org (Tommi Koivula)

    * Originally in FIDOTEST
    * Crossposted in MYSTIC

    Thursday April 14 2022 10:13, Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Flavio Bessa:

    No response from your PING robot yet. But I noticed something odd in the via
    lines of a ping to 464 routed through your system:

    @Via 2:280/5555 @20220414.073614.608.UTC FMail-W32(Pack) 2.1.3.7-B20170919 @Via 0:0/0 @20220414.043431.UTC Mystic 1.12 A47
    @Via 4:90/1 @20220414.043743 FMail/Win32 1.60+
    @Via 1:229/426 @20220414.033728 D'Bridge 4
    @Via 1:229/426@fidonet @20220414.073729.UTC O/T-Track+ 2.85
    @Via 2:280/464 @20220414.074202.227.UTC FMail-lnx64(Toss) 2.1.0.18-B20170815

    Note the 0:0/0 in the via line generated by your system. The UTC time stamp is
    also wrong.

    I noticed the same thing happening in another Mystic. This one is running A48.

    ===
    Via 2:221/6.6 @20220417.155028.UTC hpt/w32-wc 1.9 2022-04-14
    Via 0:0/0 @20220417.114640.UTC Mystic 1.12 A48
    Via 2:221/6 @20220417.155056.UTC hpt/lnx 1.9 2022-02-13
    Via 2:221/1 @20220417.155144.UTC O/T-Track+ 2.85
    ===

    'Tommi

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  • From g00r00@1:396/4 to All on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 21:08:57
    From: nospam.g00r00@f215.n129.z1.fidonet.org (g00r00)

    No response from your PING robot yet. But I noticed something odd in lines of a ping to 464 routed through your system:

    @Via 2:280/5555 @20220414.073614.608.UTC FMail-W32(Pack) 2.1.3.7-B201 @Via 0:0/0 @20220414.043431.UTC Mystic 1.12 A47
    @Via 4:90/1 @20220414.043743 FMail/Win32 1.60+

    I noticed the same thing happening in another Mystic. This one is

    Thanks for bringing this to my attention.

    I believe this was already fixed although somewhat recently, but I could be mistaken. There was a bug where the zone wasn't fuzzy matching zone 1-4 when pinging across FidoNet zones.

    But I will make a note to set up a test between two separate zone pings here to
    see what I can come up with.

    .... If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice

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