Good ${greeting_time}, mark!

03 Oct 2014 12:07:18, you wrote to Markus Reschke:


 MR>> Yes, but the recommended method is:
 MR>> ...,IBN,INA:agency.bbs.geek.nz,...
 ml> that's actually backwards and/or wasted... the INA should be listed
 ml> /before/ the flags that it affects...

No.

All flags may be listed in any sequence. Order does matter only when ",U,"
appears: flags before it are primary, flags after it are users'.

 ml> in the above, the shown IBN flag is associated with the preceeding
 ml> unknown portion of the entry while INA is for the trailing unshown
 ml> portion of the entry...

In the above, IBN means that node is accepting binkp connections.
And nothing else.

 ml> this positional distinction seems to be missed by many and the INA
 ml> flag is wasted as it doesn't get followed by other flags indicating
 ml> the capabilities available for the connection it is representing...
 ml> if the above example does not contain an IP or FQDN in a recognized
 ml> position before the IBN, then connecting systems will likely be
 ml> attempting the f.n.z conversion and lookup to find the proper IP or
 ml> FQDN to connect to for the IBN connection...

The positional distinction means your own mental disability. Other people,
including most developers, have enough mental abilities to parse the line
regardless of flag order.


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