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to: ALEXEY VISSARIONOV
from: KEES VAN EETEN
date: 2014-10-07 14:00:00
subject: FTSC-5001 question

Hello Alexey!

Tuesday October 07 2014 12:00, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 AV> For example, your node is listed in my binkd.links as:

 AV> node 2:280/5555 fido.vlist.eu;2001:7b8:2ff:3a9::2;83.82.233.201 [password]

 AV> That means, my node will try to resolve fido.vlist.eu first (as this
 AV> hostname appears in the nodelist), but if that fails, it will try both
 AV> IPv6 and IPv4 addresses (once known to be static).

 I appreciate the way you solve this and it shows your profession experience.

 My approach is slightly different and a bit more relaxed.
 In my main binkd.links there is a line:

node 2:280/5555 - [password]

 In a what some would call binkd.txt, in my case locally derived from the
 daily nodelist, there is a line:

node 2:280/5555 fido.vlist.eu -

 fido.vlist.eu resolves to an IPv6 and an IPv4 address, so first a connection
 is tried over IPv6.

 In principle fido.vlist.eu resolves to a dynamic IPv4 address, so putting it
 in a configuration file, does require maintenance to your binkp.links.
 In principle you are covered when the IPv4 address changes, as
 fido.vlist.eu is used first.

 But all in all the configuration options are very flexible and can adapt to
 almost anybodies taste.

Kees

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