Hi Ward!

Wednesday March 22 2006, Ward Dossche wrote to mark lewis:

 >>>> Why? Field "phone number" contains valid
IP-address - 213.134.221.195
 >>>> and this system supports binkp according to flag IBN.

 WD>>> I fully concur with Malcolm.

 >> yeah, you've always been against anything that let old school software
 >> maintain and at least try to keep up with new technologies :(

 WD> With all due respect, that is completely besides the point.

 WD> Malcolm has a very solid case here and I'm backing him up for as long as
 WD> he, or another possible future ZC3, maintains it is necessary.

OK. You wish to have what format of IP-address record?
And how much zones have (use) this format now?

Now nodelist use these formats:

Zone1: address in "phone number with prefix 000-"
Zone2: address in "user flags" field, phone number reserved
"00-00-000000"
Zone3: PVT + address in "station name"
Zone4: PVT + address in "station name"
Zone5: PVT + address in "station name"
Zone6: address in "phone number with prefix 000-"

I see what your format (Zone2) the most inconvenient for use and the
farthest from a classical variant.


But I have the document:

Publication:  FTS-5000
Revision:     2
Title:        The Distribution Nodelist
Author(s):    FTSC Members, Administrator and Honoured Guests

Issue Date:   26 January 2005
Review Date:  26 January 2007

=== Begin FTS ===
Field 6: Phone number (PSTN or ISDN)

[skip...]

This field may also contain the static IP address of an IP-only
node in decimal format with periods replaced with dashes, and
prefixed with a country code of 000.  This method should only be
used in exceptional circumstances, since it risks conflict with
conventional dialling, and is almost always better to list a
fully qualified domain name in a field that allows it.
===  End   ===

Everywhere the call on a phone number 000 means incorrect adjustment of
your system and only it... So at Zone1 and zone6 it's exist.


Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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