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to: JEFF SMITH
from: JANIS KRACHT
date: 2016-04-09 17:52:00
subject: BBBS Polling?

Hi Jeff,

>>> Here's another BBBS question. Recently I have noticed that when I do
>>> an ALT-P to poll a node number. BBBS node #1 goes into a polling
>>> loop and continues to poll the same node number. The polls are
>>> successful and complete ok. I can sto the loop process by deleting
>>> the poll via  BBBS Outbound Manager (BOM). This behavior just
>>> started in the day or so and no recent changes have been made to the
>>> BBBS configuration.

>> Are you using the [node_remap] section in external.bbb, or are you
>> letting bbbs find this node in the nodelist?

>> I've had this kind of thing happen to me when I messed up some small
>> detail in the remap section, like forgetting the comma in
>> ",1:xx/xxx.0[...] or the .0 in the node number in the node remap
>> section.

> Are you really trying to suggest that that period should be changed to a
> coma? Really? 

Oops.. hit on something, did I? ... hope that's all it was.

I always try letting bbbs read the nodelist first, as most folks have INA:
lines that bbbs can read.. It's nice because you don't then have the situation
where you might introduce a 'typo' :)

Now if I already had a node in the remap section from when before Kim added
'read INA', I didn't remove them.. figured why change what works :)

Anyway, here's one of them:

,1:116/18.0,Neptune's_Lair,Memphis_TN,Robert_Wolfe,neptune.ddns.net,300,XX,CM,I
BN

Take care,
Janis

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