Hello Vladimir,

 MV>> I suppose I could make my Irex connect to his Binkp system. I'd
 MV>> have to manually enter the IP number in my setup though. Irex
 MV>> can not read an Ip number hidden in the phone nr. field.

 > Please, can you send my list of mailers which can read
 > IP-address from nodelist? I don't know such programms for
 > Binkp protocol...

They exist but the list is rather small I am afraid. Due to the inability
of the FidoNet community to come up with an agreed nethod of listing IP
nodes - mostly due to the Z1 sysops "inventing" a new method
every six month - many programmers of IP mailers have given up and do not
use the nodelist at all.

Irex can extract connect info from the systenm name field and the parameter
fields of the flags. It uses the fidonet.net method if it does not find
info in those fields.

Then there are Argus and Taurus. I know of no others.

 >>> if you use the 213 IP, but the russian lookup server doesn't
 >>> respond to an inquiry of the dvb.marvelm.ru Z2 listing.

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

 > Why?

I do not know why. I only know that it does not work.

 > I can test it from another machine:

On a local network?

 > Trying 194.84.229.122...
 > Connected to 194.84.229.122.

 > All is working!

Not from here,

 "Couldn't connect to dvb.marvelm.ru:24554"

 > Can you ping my system by "ping" utility?

It responds to ping:

 D:\IM>ping dvb.marvelm.ru

Pinging dvb.marvelm.ru [213.134.221.195] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 213.134.221.195: bytes=32 time=57ms TTL=115
Reply from 213.134.221.195: bytes=32 time=53ms TTL=115
Reply from 213.134.221.195: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=115
Reply from 213.134.221.195: bytes=32 time=55ms TTL=115

Ping statistics for 213.134.221.195:
    Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
    Minimum = 53ms, Maximum =  57ms, Average =  55ms


Note that the IP address has changed in the meantime.

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

How would that help? f1992.n5020.z2.fidonet.net resolves to the same IP
number as dvb.marvelm.ru.

Anyway, you are putting up a nice smoke screen to distract from the
original issue: your interzonal aka that should not be there.

Cheers, Michiel

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