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    The F I D O N E W S Volume 34, Number 39 25 Sep 2017 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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    Table of Contents
    1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
    2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
    Mobile Nodes #2 .......................................... 2
    A returning region, net, sysops and point in Zone-2 ...... 3
    3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 5
    List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 5
    4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 7
    The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 7
    5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 9
    6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 16
    Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 16
    Nodelist Stats ........................................... 17
    7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 19
    How to Submit an Article ................................. 19
    Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 21

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    FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

    The men in expensive suits look successful until you learn that they
    often work for people who dress in jeans and t-shirts.

    -- anonymous


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  • From FidoNews Robot@1:2320/100 to All on Mon Sep 25 00:50:15 2017
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    GENERAL ARTICLES =================================================================

    Mobile nodes #2
    Ward Dossche
    2:292/854

    After receiving some valid comments from individual people, it needs
    to be accepted that the 3 user-flags introduced in my previous article
    dealing with the same content, were a case of overkill.

    Therefore the user-flags AFS and HDG are cancelled, while MOB will
    cover all cases of mobile nodes in the nodelist. It seems developers
    of Aftershock and Hotdoged are considering, or are already
    implementing, mobile access for incoming calls which would really be
    wonderful.

    The MOB user-flag will now be described as follows ...

    [,MOB] A mobile node running a binkp-implementation from an
    undisclosed location

    Proposed listing of such nodes is:

    ,<node-nr>,<system name>,<location>,<sysop>,-Unpublished-,300,U,MOB

    Ward Dossche
    ZC2



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    A returning region, net, sysops and point in Zone-2
    Ward Dossche
    2:292/854

    Naysayers about the mobile user-flags have kicked-up quite a dust
    storm after the announcement about facilitating mobile nodes in the
    nodelist.

    In the rumble of that minor battle however the success story behind
    that mobile-node affair is completely shrouded. Let me elaborate ...

    It all started on a Facebook-platform with literally hundreds of
    former sysops, the majority of them still keen on Fidonet.

    Several expressed a desire to return and a mobile platform in my
    opinion was the perfect "quick & dirty" tool to kick-start the
    process.

    Within 48 hrs I had several interested people ... 3 of them desiring
    to be a node (2 of them in Belgium, 1 in Romania), 2 settling for
    point status (1 in Greece, 1 in Germany).

    Setting-up the Aftershock application really takes 90 seconds (and my
    apologies Sergey Poziturin for not testing Hotdoged yet). For people
    with prior knowledge in echomail, they are literally up and running in
    minutes. After the first "Hurrah"-feeling the reality sinks in that
    there's only a single-link possibility, no files, no other goodies and
    the taste for "more" was quick to enter the minds of some.

    As a result we now have the returning node of 2:292/8125
    Braindeath BBS back up running InternetRex and experimenting
    with FrontDoor, sysop Tom De Puysselaer.

    Sysop Petros Argyrakis ex-2:410/9 in Thessaloniki at first was a
    point here but within 24hrs decided he wanted to be a node. Then
    he decided to revive Region-41 Greece again. One week later we
    have a fully fledged Region-41 Greece active again with a Net-410
    and 5 node-entries in it for 3 sysops, all systems "up" it seems.

    For those interested there is also a node in Romania, now residing
    in Region-56, the region for orphaned nodes: 2:530/305 Andrei
    Rachita at the moment running a MOB-node and reachable via routed
    netmail. He also wants to go beyond a MOB-node.

    Further to that ex-2:292/400 Jozef Schildermans has requested his
    old number back as well as ex-2:292/865 Luc Sienaert, both soon to
    be initially listed as MOB.

    To all of the naysayers, I ask "What have you recently done to
    further the aim of Fidonet except saying 'Nay'" ?

    Oh yes, there's also 2:20/4609 with returning-sysop Joaquim
    Homrighausen. His listing looks a bit odd and raises questions
    but seems to be technically OK ... except for the nay-sayers ...
    they object and say "Nay" ... what else ?

    So .... welcome back Jozef, Luc, Tom, Conrad, Andrei, Petros, Nasos
    and Christos. Maybe on passing by you could all wave your hands to the
    members of the "Noble Chivalric Order Of The Knights That Say Nay"..



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  • From FidoNews Robot@1:2320/100 to All on Mon Sep 25 00:50:15 2017
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    LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES =================================================================

    List of Ipv6 nodes
    By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555

    Updated 21 September 2017


    Node Nr. Sysop Type Provider Remark

    1 2:280/464 Wilfred van Velzen Native Xs4All f
    2 2:280/5003 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All f
    3 2:5019/40 Konstantin Kuzov T-6in4 he.net f PO4
    4 2:240/1661 Markus Reschke Native DTAG f
    5 2:280/5555 Michiel van der Vlist Native Ziggo f
    6 1:320/219 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
    7 2:221/0 Tommi Koivula T-6in4 he.net
    8 2:221/1 Tommi Koivula T-6in4 he.net
    9 2:221/6 Tommi Koivula T-6in4 he.net f
    10 2:5053/54 Denis Mikhlevich Native TTK-Volga
    11 2:5030/257 Vova Uralsky T-6in4 he.net
    12 1:154/10 Nicholas Boel Native Spectrum f
    13 2:203/0 Bjorn Felten T-6in4 he.net
    14 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All f INO4
    15 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6RD iiNet f
    16 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov Native Hetzner f
    17 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
    18 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6to4 Westlan
    19 2:301/812 Benoit Panizzon Native IMPNET DOWN
    20 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek T-6to4 he.net
    21 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
    22 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native Ransom II
    23 1:266/404 Bill McGarrity Native Comcast
    24 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline IO
    25 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
    26 1:249/303 Joe Delahaye Native Teksavvy f
    27 2:280/1043 Michel van Osenbruggen Native BIT
    28 3:770/1 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
    29 2:5053/58 Alexandr Kruglikov Native CJSC The First
    30 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    31 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh T-6in4 he.net
    32 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter T-6in4 he.net
    33 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
    34 2:5005/33 Evgeny Zyatkov Native RUCITYCONNECT f
    35 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel
    36 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
    37 2:2443/1313 Dirk Astrath Native VOLMARNET
    38 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
    39 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
    40 1:214/22 Ray Quinn T-6to4 AT&T f
    41 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
    42 1:282/1031 Jeff Smith Native Qwest
    43 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin T-6in4 he.net
    44 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
    45 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native Hetzner
    46 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
    47 2:5020/1906 Alexander Lobachev Native RU-CENTER
    48 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native OVH INO4
    49 2:240/5853 Philipp Giebel Native Hetzner
    50 2:2452/413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
    51 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net
    52 2:5021/46 Dmitry Komissarov Native THEFIRST
    53 2:292/140 Rudi Timmermans Native PCextreme IO
    54 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
    55 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4 Novator
    56 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Choopa
    57 1:135/371 Eric Renfro Native Cox Comm
    58 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa


    T-6in4 Static 6in4
    T-AYIY Dynamic AYIYA
    T-6to4 6to4
    T-6RD 6RD

    Remarks:

    f Has a ::f1d0:<zone>:<net>:<node> style host address
    IO Incoming only (Node can not make outgoing IPv6 calls)
    OO Outgoing only (Node can not accept incoming IPv6 calls)
    INO4 No IPv4 (Node can not accept incoming IPv4 calls)
    PO4 Prefers Out on 4 (Node can make outgoing IPv6 calls,
    but is configured to try IPv4 first)
    6DWN The IPv6 connectivity of this node is temporarely down.
    DOWN This node is temporarely down for both IPv4 and IPv6
    PM Prospective Member. The node has demonstrated IPv6
    capability but is not yet listed in the Fidonet nodelist.


    Notes:

    To make an IPv6 connection to a node connected via 6to4 tunneling
    one may have to force the mailer into IPv6 (-6 option in binkd's
    node config). If the destination address is a 6to4 tunnel address
    (2002::/16) many OSs default to IPv4 if an IPv4 address is present.

    Submitted on day 267

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  • From FidoNews Robot@1:2320/100 to All on Mon Sep 25 00:50:15 2017
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    SPECIAL INTEREST =================================================================

    Last week's statistics from the Fidoweb
    By EchoTime, 2:203/0

    (Some nets may have lost their last
    digit for technical reasons)

    pkt (toss-toss) msg (write-toss)
    nodes mean dev no mean dev no

    20/* 2.8m 1.0m 7 0.1h 0.1h 7
    132/* 8.1m 1.1m 8 0.6h 0.7h 8
    154/* 9.1m 6.2m 301 1.5h 8.4h 301
    201/* 8.9m 14.5m 41 11.3h 27.9h 41
    221/* 3.6m 4.0m 355 6.7h 8.9h 352
    240/* 8.9m 1.6m 3 0.5h 0.0h 3
    249/* 4.2m 4.9m 340 4.8h 18.8h 340
    266/* 5.7m 2.0m 433 3.1h 12.4h 433
    280/* 3.5m 2.3m 445 4.2h 6.5h 445
    292/* 7.2m 4.4m 36 0.9h 2.3h 29
    320/* 4.9m 1.9m 337 3.2h 13.2h 337
    423/* 3.9m 0.3m 12 7.2h 2.7h 12
    502/* 2.7m 0.3m 8 0.1h 0.2h 8
    640/* 4.4m 4.3m 115 9.5h 8.7h 115

    Sigma 5.1m 4.5m 2441 4.3h 12.2h 2431

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    Nodelist Stats

    Input nodelist nodelist.265
    size 209.7kb
    date 2017-09-22

    The nodelist has 1117 nodes in it
    and a total of 1816 non-comment entries

    including 4 zones
    30 regions
    177 hosts
    101 hubs
    admin overhead 312 ( 27.93 %)

    and 138 private nodes
    76 nodes down
    173 nodes on hold
    off line overhead 387 ( 34.65 %)


    Speed summary:

    >9600 = 72 ( 6.45 %)
    9600 = 316 ( 28.29 %)
    (HST = 5 or 1.58 %)
    (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V32 = 134 or 42.41 %)
    (V32B = 51 or 16.14 %)
    (V34 = 208 or 65.82 %)
    (V42 = 131 or 41.46 %)
    (V42B = 53 or 16.77 %)
    2400 = 3 ( 0.27 %)
    1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
    300 = 726 ( 65.00 %)

    ISDN = 62 ( 5.55 %)

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    IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
    IBN Binkp 777 ( 69.56 %) ----------------------------------
    IFC Raw ifcico 99 ( 8.86 %) ----------------------------------
    IFT FTP 63 ( 5.64 %) ----------------------------------
    ITN Telnet 167 ( 14.95 %) ----------------------------------
    IVM Vmodem 14 ( 1.25 %) ----------------------------------
    IP Other 6 ( 0.54 %) ----------------------------------
    INO4 IPv6 only 2 ( 0.18 %) ----------------------------------

    CrashMail capable = 884 ( 79.14 %)
    MailOnly nodes = 403 ( 36.08 %)
    Listed-only nodes = 29 ( 2.60 %)



    [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
    [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/2]
    [ NetStats 3.8 2014-11-23]

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