Hello Nigel,

On Monday February 15 2021 16:08, you wrote to FidoNews Robot:

 NR> All recently Synchronet BBS's should support PING. I assked Digital
 NR> Man to add support a couple of years ago maybe. I expect a numebr of
 NR> sysops are not even aware. I don't even know if I have the PING flag,

You do not fly the PING flag in today's nodelist but I have tested your system
and it does indeed supports PING. Good ;-)

So maybe you should ask your NC to have the PING flag added.

 NR> Maybe you could try sending a PING to the entire nodelist and see what
 NR> shakes out.

Hmmm.. I think that would be a bit too much. Systems that fly the PING flag can
be considered to have an open invitation to test it but we know that long toes
are not uncommon in Fidonet. So some not flying a PING flag may consider it
mildly annoying if their logs are contaminated by unsollicited PING attempts...

 NR> Now as for TRACE, I've never heard of this one so will have to
 NR> research it a bit.

TRACE is part of the PING specs, but not all PING implementationes support it.
My test indicates that your system does not support TRACE.


Cheers, Michiel

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