Re: does binkit log failed in
  By: Dumas Walker to DIGITAL MAN on Fri Apr 03 2020 06:18 pm

 > >The issue was root-caused to bad syntax in the sysop's text/ip-silent.can
 > file.
 > >The line ".46~" matched (and silently dropped connections from) the problem
 > IP >ddresses, unintentionally.
 >
 > >So yeah, the TCP connections were reaching SBBS and being silent
 > disconnected.
 >
 > I have one other syntax related question.  There is a note in the *.can
 > files that says:
 >
 >  Wildcard characters (*, ^, ~) are allowed and ! negates the match
 >
 > If I would have added an entry for Al and Beery's IPAs starting with a '!'
 > in the ip-silent.can file, would that have allowed them in even though they
 > were covered (accidentally) by my bad syntax?

No. Since their IP matched one of your lines (rules), they would still have
been filtered.

 > I did not try it, since you helped me fix the root problem, but I wondered
 > what that would have done.

There's really nothing you could have added to exclude their specific IP
addresses since they matched that more general rule you had.

                                            digital man

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