Hello, Jeff!

Thursday October 22 2020 01:01, from Jeff Smith -> All:

 JS> I have seen questions and differing thoughts on the use of certain
 JS> nodelist flags and their preferred or correct usage. A couple such
 JS> flags are INA and IBN and how each should be used to specify nodelist
 JS> connectivity data. In looking through the current nodelist I see those
 JS> two flags used in a couple different ways.
 JS> Thoughts on which and why?

INA flag tells you that the node supports IP connection and the address is
provided. There used to be IP flag for the same reason but because the address
itself was optional it is deprecated in favor of INA.

Here, the IBN flag specifies that the Binkp protocol is supported and
optionally a non-standard port can be specified.  Other supported protocol can
be IFC (RAW ifcico), IFT, ITN, or IVM protocol.

It is that the IBN flag cannot include the host address itself, that is why we
usually have a combination of INA+IBN in the nodelist.

Best Regards, Nil
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