This question is for other's running D'Bridge as a hub where you have multiple downlinks.

I was wondering if there is an easy way to tell if you have any particular downlinks that have not picked up packets in along time?

Just curious as to how others keep track of who has been connecting vs. the dead wood when it comes to feeding from the hub.

Thanks!

- Mark

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On 05 Jun 16 09:12:14, Mark Hofmann said the following to All:

This question is for other's running D'Bridge as a hub where you have multi downlinks.

I was wondering if there is an easy way to tell if you have any particular downlinks that have not picked up packets in along time?

That was something I had intended to build on, but never came to pass.

What about using DBUTIL QNAME along with a script or something that does a
DIR /O:D to sort by date, then purge files older than x days?

There are also commands in DBUTIL to obtain the date of the last-tossed message to get an idea of whether an echo is "dead" or not.

Nick

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That was something I had intended to build on, but never came to pass.

What about using DBUTIL QNAME along with a script or something that does
a DIR /O:D to sort by date, then purge files older than x days?

There are also commands in DBUTIL to obtain the date of the last-tossed message to get an idea of whether an echo is "dead" or not.

Thanks, I'll give that option a try and see.

I have my D'Bridge hub feeding a few nodes echomail and I have a feeling they are no longer around. Just investigating options for "housekeeping".

WWIV/WWIVnet has an option that I use to check on that side. //PENDING shows the total size of the pending packet and when the last time the node connected.

The big reason why I asked this question is because in the very near future, my
D'Bridge hub will be feeding WWIVnet-FTN. :) I have everything in place now so that WWIVnet will no longer be WWIV only. Will announce more on that later.


- Mark

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Mark Hofmann wrote in a message to Nick Andre:

question is because in the very near future, my D'Bridge hub will be feeding WWIVnet-FTN. :) I have everything in place now so that
WWIVnet will no longer be WWIV only. Will announce more on that

;) Looking foward to it!

Shawn
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06 Jun 16 12:36, you wrote to Nick Andre:

That was something I had intended to build on, but never came to
pass.

What about using DBUTIL QNAME along with a script or something that
does a DIR /O:D to sort by date, then purge files older than x days?

There are also commands in DBUTIL to obtain the date of the
last-tossed message to get an idea of whether an echo is "dead" or
not.

Thanks, I'll give that option a try and see.

I have my D'Bridge hub feeding a few nodes echomail and I have a feeling they are no longer around. Just investigating options for "housekeeping".

you can't just look in the outbound and see the dates of the oldest PKTs and/or
bundles?

)\/(ark

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On 06 Jun 16 19:07:18, Mark Lewis said the following to Mark Hofmann:

I have my D'Bridge hub feeding a few nodes echomail and I have a feeli they are no longer around. Just investigating options for "housekeepi

you can't just look in the outbound and see the dates of the oldest PKTs and/or bundles?

Of course he can, anyone can do that, but the problem comes in the complexity of the Queue directory structure. There are seperate outbound directories for BinkD as well as the singular directory for "normal" Queue bundles that have yet to be either moved to BinkD staging, or sent via dialup modem.

Its obvious that nobody knows what D-00106D.0BU contains, unless you can do base 36 math in your head then you know that its 1:229/426. Thats why I added the DBUTIL QNAME command. It translates a specified address into its directory name.

I also added DBUTIL SHOWDEADECHOES xxx and REMOVEDEADECHOS to show and
nuke areas that D'Bridge has not tossed mail into for xxx amount of days.

But as I explained, I never did automate the purging of dead packets, it was something I never had the time to properly finish.

The idea I had was to add the purging feature, but not purge outgoing Netmail if possible... in the event that system did call in to pick up all that
mail, the Netmail bundle would remain... perhaps containing a nice polite message that all of their mail was nuked.

Nick

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you can't just look in the outbound and see the dates of the oldest PKTs and/or bundles?

Yes, but that is a manual process. If you have many downlinks, checking each outbound queue directory can be time consuming. Plus, you have to match the queue names with the node.

I seem to have way more queue directories than downlinks - so a good cleanup is
probably in order.

- Mark

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07 Jun 16 20:10, you wrote to me:

you can't just look in the outbound and see the dates of the oldest
PKTs and/or bundles?

Yes, but that is a manual process. If you have many downlinks,
checking each outbound queue directory can be time consuming. Plus,
you have to match the queue names with the node.

yeah, i was thinking of a script that looked and maybe a tool to peek into the PKT headers for the address info...

I seem to have way more queue directories than downlinks - so a good cleanup is probably in order.

empty queue directories don't take any more room then empty echos, do they?? ;)

)\/(ark

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