Hi Tony,

On 2019-07-03 22:03:00, you wrote to me:

 WvV>> What's the hostname of the problem uplink?

 TL> agency.bbs.nz:24556

I created a fake node in my binkd config to be able to make a poll:

  04 Jul 09:21:27 [24676] BEGIN, binkd/1.1a-95/Linux -p -P 999:999/999 
/home/fido/etc/binkd.conf
? 04 Jul 09:21:27 [24676] Cannot find domain for zone 999, assuming 'fidonet'
  04 Jul 09:21:27 [24676] creating a poll for 999:999/999@fidonet (`d' flavour)
  04 Jul 09:21:27 [24676] clientmgr started
+ 04 Jul 09:21:27 [24677] call to 999:999/999@fidonet
  04 Jul 09:21:27 [24678] 999:999/999@TestNet busy, skipping
  04 Jul 09:21:27 [24676] rc(24678)=0
+ 04 Jul 09:21:28 [24677] getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known (-2)
  04 Jul 09:21:28 [24676] rc(24677)=0
  04 Jul 09:21:28 [24676] the queue is empty, quitting...
+ 04 Jul 09:21:29 [24680] call to 999:999/999@TestNet
  04 Jul 09:21:29 [24680] trying agency.bbs.nz [2001:470:d:123::50]:24556...
  04 Jul 09:21:30 [24680] connected
+ 04 Jul 09:21:30 [24680] outgoing session with agency.bbs.nz:24556 
[2001:470:d:123::50]
- 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] OPT CRAM-MD5-34fac41297577203a092a5e56776c69f
+ 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] Remote requests MD mode
- 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] SYS fsxHUB Risa [NET1]
- 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] ZYZ Avon
- 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] TIME Thu, 04 Jul 2019 19:21:25 1200
- 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] VER Mystic/1.12A43 binkp/1.0
- 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] BUILD 2019/03/03 01:35:01 Windows/32
+ 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] addr: 21:1/100@fsxnet (n/a or busy)
+ 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] addr: 21:1/3@fsxnet (n/a or busy)
+ 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] addr: 21:1/2@fsxnet (n/a or busy)
+ 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] addr: 21:1/0@fsxnet (n/a or busy)
+ 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] addr: 21:0/0@fsxnet (n/a or busy)
? 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] no AKAs in common domains or all AKAs are busy
+ 04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] done (to 999:999/999@TestNet, failed, S/R: 0/0 (0/0 
bytes))
  04 Jul 09:21:32 [24680] session closed, quitting...

Interestingly at first I get the same response. But after that it just works, 
and keeps on working...?


Bye, Wilfred.

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