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echo: binkd
to: WILFRED VAN VELZEN
from: NICHOLAS BOEL
date: 2016-10-13 11:55:00
subject: Re: Logging issue

Hello Wilfred,

On 13 Oct 16 17:45, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to Nicholas Boel:

 NB>> So lately I've been seeing some odd logging when starting binkd
 NB>> or when it automatically restarts after a config change:

 NB>> Cannot find domain for zone 2, assuming 'fidonet'
 NB>> Cannot find domain for zone 3, assuming 'fidonet'
 NB>> Cannot find domain for zone 4, assuming 'fidonet'

 NB>> These are repeated multiple times for each. Obviously I
 NB>> understand that I don't have a zone 2, 3, or 4 address, but I do
 NB>> have links in those zones. And I understand this is not breaking
 NB>> anything. It's more of an annoyance than anything. Hundreds of
 NB>> these log entries every time upon config change or startup just
 NB>> seems like it could be avoided somehow.

 NB>> Is there any way to specify that zones 1-4 all fall under the
 NB>> 'fidonet' domain so I don't get these errors in my logs?

 WV> Since you see hundreds, I think you are using a BINKD.TXT that has the
 WV> nodes listed without the '@fidonet' part. So no 5D addresses. Which
 WV> causes binkd to generate those warnings when it reads the file, and
 WV> comes across nodes in different zones than your default.

Wow, you hit the nail on the head. The last BINKD.TXT that was released in the
I-BINKD file echo doesn't contain any domains for any of the addresses listed
in it.

 WV> Because you are a linux user it would be easy for you to generate your
 WV> own, using the php script originally by Ulrich Schroeter, that I
 WV> recently updated to this effect.

 WV> You can download it here:

 WV> http://ambrosia60.dd-dns.de/53f8ee03/drv_q/div27/i-util/bnlphp13.zip

I've grabbed it and will definitely look into it. I've been having problems
with the BINKD.TXT that has been hatched out in the filegate for quite some
time now. If it was hatched at all.

Thanks for the help Wilfred. I didn't even think to look at BINKD.TXT, and
that's exactly where the issue lies. I'll remove the file echo and start
creating it myself for all the networks I carry here.

Regards,
Nick

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