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to: Alan Ianson
from: Jeff Smith
date: 2019-03-12 15:37:54
subject: Polling Loop?

Hello Alan,

>>Here is something I have noticed that has happened occasionally for awhile no
>>BBBS will get stuck in a continuous polling loop Or Mystic isn't
>> expressing that the connection was completed and so BBBS retries. This also
>> happened on previous versions of BBBS.

> I've seen this too, not continuous polling but I sometimes press
 p from
>BBBS to poll a node and the poll will complete successfully but the poll isn't
>removed so BBBS polls the node a second time. I see that at times when polling
> a link running Mystic or binkd.

I did some checking of my saved logs from last year and I am thinking it is
a relationship 
between BBBS and Mystic as the majority of times it has happened it
involved a Mystic 
system. Currently last time it happened was with my Mystic 1:14/5 system
and according 
to the logs the next previous time was with Paul's 21:1/100 Mystic system.
In testing it 
doesn't look to happen if Mystic initiates the poll to BBBS. But is likely
to happen if 
BBBS initiates the poll to the Mystic system. I will also be providing my
findings to
the Mystic author James Coyle.

Jeff

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