Carol Shenkenberger wrote to Rick Van Ruth at 22:16 on 27 Oct 2002:

 CS> *** Quoting Rick Van Ruth from a message to Steven Horn ***

 SH> You can take a look at my listing (1:17/67) in the nodelist as it shows
 SH> how my RC and I worked out my listing as an ION.

RVR> ,67,northof60.tzo.com,Whitehorse_YK,Steven_Horn,1-000-000-000,300,CM,M
RVR> orthof60.tzo.com

 CS> PVT,67,northof60.tzo.com,Whitehorse_YK,Steven_Horn,-Unpublished-,30
 CS> 0,CM, (sorry, TG truncation got me) but IBN with no added DNS
 CS> lookup. 

 CS> You can be CM still but with no static IP or phone, need the PVT
 CS> keyword added. Its harmless for an ION and protects stupid POTS
 CS> people from making mistakes due to them not being setup right. 
 CS> Also the 1-000 was wrong.  Should have been 000- with no 1- before
 CS> it.

I'll buy the "000" argument but fail to see why an ION needs to
fly a PVT flag. Using "000 ..." as a telephone number means that
a POTS node trying to dial the ION will never connect to anything.

I also accept Michael Grant's argument on this point.

 CS> The key to the 000 is it dials no international codes.  Adding 1-
 CS> to it can actually cause one to dial the USA operator
 CS> international.

RVR> That difference in standards is the 1-000-000-000 phone number.

 CS> Bad juju.

But easily fixed. 

RVR> Also IBN:northof60.tzo.com is not required as you already have your IP
RVR> address in the system name field so you really only need the IBN flag
RVR> any further info.

 CS> Correct.

But what if one has an IP address which is not the same as one's IBN address? 

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven_a_horn{at}yahoo.ca)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 

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