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echo: fidosoft.husky
to: Matt Bedynek
from: Douglas Connor
date: 2004-06-27 21:13:16
subject: extra seen+bys

Hello Matt.

27 Jun 04 19:20, you wrote to me:


 DC>> Where do the seenbys 39491/16108 and 40836/16106 come from?

 MB> I recommend that before you even try to debug hpt that you capture
 MB> some arcmail bundles and manually extract/examine them.  If you are
 MB> seeing them there then someone further up in the stream is pushing
 MB> them into it.   Use pktinfo -t  to acomplish this (e.g.

 MB> pktinfo -t 12312123.pkt | less
That would be a bit like finding a needle in a hay stack.
but It does happen with messages originating from all 4 networks
that i toss for and it is not just messages comming in from one
single link.

 DC>> this piece of a pkt going to 132/501 made my dos bbs tosser die:(
 DC>> and I get many of them:(
 DC>> I can open and edit the pkt to remove the large seenbys and it
 DC>> will toss.

 MB> If it is indeed being pushed in further up the stream, you can strip
 MB> them out at your hub by running reduced seenby.
I'll have to read up more on the use of tiny seenbys.
Like how to give them to a link and not in echo cfgs.


Douglas

--- GoldED+/W32 1.1.4.7
* Origin: (1:132/500)
SEEN-BY: 633/267 270
@PATH: 132/500 123/500 106/2000 633/267

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