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    From Matt Jurcich@1:229/426 to All on Wed Dec 3 22:08:10 2025
    Hi all,

    First time setting up D'Bridge.. pretty cool that it does everything!

    Anyway, I was trying to send a mail to my coordinator to get a FidoNet address.. The message made it to binkp, but it kept saying it couldn't find the address. I ended up manually changing the nodediff file to have the guys BBS IP address instead of host name, and the message then went through.

    So it seems like my system is having trouble with DNS lookups.... Does it use a particular server or what could be going wrong?

    Thanks much!!

    -m

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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Matt Jurcich on Thu Dec 4 10:15:01 2025
    On 3 Dec 25 22:08, Matt Jurcich said the following to All:

    So it seems like my system is having trouble with DNS lookups.... Does it a particular server or what could be going wrong?

    This does not sound like a D'Bridge problem.

    What happens when you do an Nslookup to the hostname? Is the resolve not the same as the IP address?

    Nick

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  • From Matt Jurcich@1:229/426 to Nick Andre on Thu Dec 4 18:38:25 2025
    Hi, thanks for posting.

    Yes nslookup works fine in a command prompt window. And a web browser works on the GUI side of things. Also the port 24554 is accessible from the internet so it is at a basic level communicating over TCP/IP......

    Thanks for any other suggestions.

    -m

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  • From Matt Jurcich@1:229/426 to Matt Jurcich on Thu Dec 4 20:02:21 2025
    Hello again,

    Well it looks like it was able to resolve the hostname for another site this evening. Let me monitor this further before we get any deeper in it.

    I did get my Fidonet address today and I've put it in.

    My boss node (I think on his regular BBS node) has a binkd session password and an areafix password.... Where do I enter these?

    Thanks much.

    -m

    --- Renegade vY2Ka2
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  • From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to Matt Jurcich on Thu Dec 4 20:08:01 2025
    On 4 Dec 25 20:02, Matt Jurcich said the following to Matt Jurcich:

    My boss node (I think on his regular BBS node) has a binkd session password and an areafix password.... Where do I enter these?

    Advanced-Misc/Security and Config-Packet/Mail

    Nick

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