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    Table of Contents
    1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
    2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
    IPv6 in 2016 ............................................. 2
    3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 4
    list of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 4
    4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 6
    The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 6
    5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 8
    FidoNet Software References .............................. 8
    6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 13
    Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 13
    Nodelist Stats ........................................... 14
    7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 16
    How to Submit an Article ................................. 16
    Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 18

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

    Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight
    you are probably drunk.

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    GENERAL ARTICLES =================================================================

    IPv6 in 2016
    By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555


    Another year has passed. When we compare the statistics as published
    by the end of 2015 with those of today, we see that IPv6 in Fidonet
    has grown again. From 39 to 51 nodes.


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    The exponential growth in the previous five years however did not
    continue. Until the end of 2015, the number almost doubled every year.
    In 2016 we had a mere net increase of 12 nodes. I say "net" because in
    2016, not only did we see new IPv6 nodes, we also saw nodes disappear
    from the list. Three stopped supporting IPv6, two left Fidonet
    altogether.

    Another trend we see continue is the move towards native IPv6. In last
    year's list we saw 18 nodes with native IPv6 and 21 nodes that used a
    tunnel. In today's list we see 33 nodes with native IPv6 and 18 using
    a tunnel. Raising the precentge from 46% to 64%.

    I myself was one of the lucky ones that upgraded to native IPv6. My
    ISP said that they would roll out IPv6 by the end of the year. They
    have been saying that for at least five years and nothing happened,
    but now they finally seem to get moving. To get it though, I had to
    find the one and only model of CPE that they presently support in
    combination with IPv6. Their Native IPv6 support is still not
    official, so it could be gone again tomorrow. I have not cancelled my
    tunnel accounts with SixXs and he.net yet.

    As for SixXs, they show signs of fatigue. In April 2016 they stopped
    honouring requests for new accounts and for existing accounts they
    stopped honouring requests for new tunnels and subnets. It does not
    look like this is a temporary thing. Their explanation is that it is
    time that ISPs start providing native IPv6 for their customers instead
    of letting tunnel providers do it for them. I can't argue with that,
    but it does leave those depending on their tunnels in the cold. I
    would not be surprised if they close down altogether in the not too
    distant future. They say there are no plans for complete shutdown yet,
    but another writing on the wall is that they refuse to move existing
    tunnels tot another POP, when a POP closes down. Thereby effectively
    closing that tunnel. The main driving force, Jeroen Massar, shows
    signs of getting tired of the project. He is a bit of a personality
    that has antagonised many people. But let's not be too hard on him. He
    provided a valuable - and free - service for almost 15 years.

    The other major tunnel provider - he.net - does not show any signs of
    preparing to close shop yet. But since nothing lasts forever, their
    free services won't last forever either. Not only do they provide free
    tunnels, they also provide an interesting education programme. If you succesfully complete all the stages of their course you are awarded
    the rank of "sage" and get a free T-shirt to show off. I got mine on
    the 2nd of July. On my birthday. If I am not mistaken, there are three
    other sysops on the Fidonet IPv6 list that have the T-shirt.

    http://www.vlist.eu/fotos/sage-f.jpg
    http://www.vlist.eu/fotos/sage-b.jpg


    What we did not see in 2016 is the coming of nodes that no longer have
    a public IPv4 address. Many providers, mostly in Europe and
    Australasia are switching to DS-lite. Even in my onw country, The
    Netherlands, my own ISP, Ziggo, is now putting new customers on
    DS-Lite in the area serviced by the company they recently merged with
    and that was formerly known as UPC. DS-Lite means that customers get a
    public routable IPv6 prefix, but for IPv4 they will have to make do
    with an address or adresses in the RFC-1918 or RFC-6598 range.
    Customers not running servers will not be affected very much, but the
    unability to run servers from behind a CGNAT will definitely affect
    Fidonet. There is little doubt we will see that happen in the future.
    Maybe not in 2017, but surely in the years to come.


    Happy IPv6 in 2017.


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    LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES =================================================================

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

    Updated 26 December 2016


    Node Nr. Sysop Type Provider Remark

    1 2:280/464 Wilfred van Velzen Native Xs4All
    2 2:280/5003 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All
    3 2:5019/40 Konstantin Kuzov T-6in4 he.net PO4
    4 2:240/1661 Markus Reschke Native DTAG
    5 2:280/5555 Michiel van der Vlist Native Ziggo
    6 1:320/219 Andrew Leary Native Comcast
    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
    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 TWC
    13 2:203/0 Bjorn Felten T-6in4 he.net IO
    14 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All INO4
    15 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6RD iiNet
    16 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov Native Hetzner
    17 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
    18 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6to4 he.net
    19 2:301/812 Benoit Panizzon Native IMPNET
    20 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek Native T-Mobile
    21 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
    22 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native Ausnetworks
    23 1:266/404 Bill McGarrity Native Comcast
    24 4:902/26 Fernando Toledo T-AYIY SixXs
    25 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline IO
    26 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
    27 1:249/303 Joe Delahaye Native Teksavvy
    28 2:280/1043 Michel van Osenbruggen Native BIT
    29 3:770/1 Paul Hayton T-AYIY SixXs
    30 2:5053/58 Alexandr Kruglikov Native CJSC The First
    31 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    32 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh T-6in4 he.net
    33 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter T-6in4 he.net
    34 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
    35 2:5005/33 Evgeny Zyatkov T-6in4 he.net PO4
    36 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel
    37 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
    38 2:2443/1313 Dirk Astrath Native VOLMARNET
    39 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
    40 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
    41 2:203/210 Mattias Larsson T-6in4 he.net
    42 1:2320/100 Allen Prunty Native AT&T OO
    43 1:214/22 Ray Quinn Native AT&T OO
    44 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
    45 1:282/1031 Jeff Smith Native Qwest
    46 2:5075/35 Eugene Subbotin T-6in4 he.net
    47 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin T-6in4 he.net
    48 1:135/371 Eric Renfro Native Cox
    49 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
    50 2:467/239 Mihail Kapitanov Native Choopa
    51 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native Hetzner


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

    Remarks:

    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) Windows defaults to IPv4 if an IPv4 address is present.




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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

    123/* 1.0m 0.5m 68 0.9h 0.7h 69
    132/* 5.5m 0.6m 4 31.5h 61.8h 4
    154/* 5.1m 5.7m 463 0.9h 3.7h 464
    201/* 1.1m 0.4m 4 21.1h 1.2h 4
    221/* 2.6m 10.5m 307 6.5h 10.2h 304
    232/* 1.5m 5.0m 413 2.4h 11.6h 410
    249/* 1.5m 5.1m 395 2.4h 10.2h 394
    266/* 5.1m 0.6m 295 2.8h 11.6h 294
    280/* 2.4m 9.9m 345 4.1h 6.2h 345
    292/* 3.9m 1.4m 10 6.5h 10.8h 3
    320/* 55.3m 1.3m 312 2.4h 11.2h 311
    423/* 1.3m 0.3m 8 5.2h 0.5h 8
    502/* 58.2m 0.2m 21 0.0h 0.1h 21
    640/* 1.1m 0.6m 98 11.3h 7.9h 98

    Sigma 9.3m 18.3m 2743 3.2h 9.8h 2729

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    Nodelist Stats

    Input nodelist nodelist.365
    size 234.6kb
    date 2016-12-30

    The nodelist has 1436 nodes in it
    and a total of 2104 non-comment entries

    including 4 zones
    29 regions
    181 hosts
    126 hubs
    admin overhead 340 ( 23.68 %)

    and 156 private nodes
    88 nodes down
    84 nodes on hold
    off line overhead 328 ( 22.84 %)


    Speed summary:

    >9600 = 77 ( 5.36 %)
    9600 = 607 ( 42.27 %)
    (HST = 9 or 1.48 %)
    (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (PEP = 1 or 0.16 %)
    (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V32 = 311 or 51.24 %)
    (V32B = 37 or 6.10 %)
    (V34 = 406 or 66.89 %)
    (V42 = 322 or 53.05 %)
    (V42B = 39 or 6.43 %)
    2400 = 4 ( 0.28 %)
    1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
    300 = 748 ( 52.09 %)

    ISDN = 81 ( 5.64 %)

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    IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
    IBN Binkp 813 ( 56.62 %) ----------------------------------
    IFC Raw ifcico 111 ( 7.73 %) ----------------------------------
    IFT FTP 59 ( 4.11 %) ----------------------------------
    ITN Telnet 158 ( 11.00 %) ----------------------------------
    IVM Vmodem 15 ( 1.04 %) ----------------------------------
    IP Other 6 ( 0.42 %) ----------------------------------
    INO4 IPv6 only 1 ( 0.07 %) ----------------------------------

    CrashMail capable = 971 ( 67.62 %)
    MailOnly nodes = 597 ( 41.57 %)
    Listed-only nodes = 61 ( 4.25 %)



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

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