24 Mar 06 10:14, Vladimir Donskoy wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 MV>> The DNS server responds; it resolves to 194.84.229.122. But
 MV>> apparently there is no Binkp server active at that number. So his Z2
 MV>> listing is invalid too.

 VD> Why? I can test it from another machine:

 VD> ===
 VD> [dvb{at}linux2 /]$ telnet 194.84.229.122 24554
 VD> Trying 194.84.229.122...
 VD> Connected to 194.84.229.122.
 VD> Escape character is '^]'.
 VD> Ä.OPT CRAM-MD5-3a2f3e363193ec319698debd34ac8590SYS DVBÄZYZ Vladimir
 VD> DonskoyÄLOC Moscow, RussiaÄNDL 2Mb,RC7_14Ä%TIME Fri, 24 Mar 2006
 VD> 10:13:45 +0300Ä'VER binkd/0.9.9-stable/Win32 binkp/1.1Ä&
 VD> 2:5020/2992{at}fidonet
 VD> 6:770/92{at}fidonet
 VD> ===

 VD> All is working!

According to your Z2 nodelisting, dvb.marvelm.ru resolves to that number,
but a Ping request times out here.

Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195]
(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\WINDOWS>ping  dvb.marvelm.ru

Pinging dvb.marvelm.ru [194.84.229.122] with 32 bytes of data:

Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.

Ping statistics for 194.84.229.122:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 0ms, Maximum =  0ms, Average =  0ms

C:\WINDOWS>

It seems to be working for you and Vlist, but it doesn't work from the US.

 VD> Can you ping my system by "ping" utility? My be exist trouble to
 VD> connect in this channel by provider connectivity, so - try another my
 VD> channel (or fidonet.net for my Z2 system).


Roy
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