Hello There,

Here is some behavior that I have noticed recently between Mystic and other BBS/Mailers with regard to polling.

No /home/mystic/semaphore/fidopoll.bsy file exists

mystic@sbbs:~$ ./fidopoll 1:3634/12

<A /home/mystic/semaphore/fidopoll.bsy file created>

Looking up address "1:3634/12" in nodelist Scanning 1:3634/12
Queued 0 files (0 bytes) to 1:3634/12 Polling BINKP node 1:3634/12 (Mark Lewis)
by IPV4 Connecting to sestar.synchro.net
Connected IPV4 to 75.89.249.167
System SouthEast Star (binkd)
SysOp waldo kitty
Location central North Carolina, USA Info NDL 115200,CM,IBN
Info TIME Mon, 2 Sep 2019 22:28:50 -0400 Mailer binkd/1.1a-99/Linux binkp/1.1 Info TRF 0 0
Session ended (0 sent, 0 rcvd, 0 skip)

<Existing /home/mystic/semaphore/fidopoll.bsy file deleted>

mystic@sbbs:~$ ./fidopoll 21:1/128

<A /home/mystic/semaphore/fidopoll.bsy file created>

Looking up address "21:1/128" in nodelist Scanning 21:1/128
Queued 0 files (0 bytes) to 21:1/128 Polling BINKP node 21:1/128 (Jeff Smith) by IPV4+IPV6 Connecting to bbs.ouijabrd.net
Connected IPV4 to 65.103.12.161

mystic@sbbs:~$

<Existing /home/mystic/semaphore/fidopoll.bsy file NOT deleted>

After the second running of Fidopoll and the return to a command prompt. The existing fidopoll.bsy file was not deleted. It looks like the connection was not completed properly by either Mystic or in this case BBBS.

I have had transaction issues between Mystic and BBBS before but not regarding bsy file management.

Upon testing I find that if I restrict connections to only use IP4 then the second connecton results in:

mystic@sbbs:~$ ./fidopoll killbusy all

No /home/mystic/semaphore/fidopoll.bsy file exists

mystic@sbbs:~$ ./fidopoll 21:1/128

<A /home/mystic/semaphore/fidopoll.bsy file created>

FIDOPOLL Version 1.12 A43 2019/03/02

Looking up address "21:1/128" in nodelist Scanning 21:1/128
Queued 0 files (0 bytes) to 21:1/128 Polling BINKP node 21:1/128 (Jeff Smith) by IPV4 Connecting to bbs.ouijabrd.net
Connected IPV4 to 65.103.12.161
System The Ouija Board
SysOp Jeff Smith
Location Anoka, MN - bbs.ouijabrd.net Mailer BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4 binkp/1.0 Info NDL CM,IBM,IFT,INA
Session ended (0 sent, 0 rcvd, 0 skip)

mystic@sbbs:~$

<Existing /home/mystic/semaphore/fidopoll.bsy file deleted>

I should note that I currently have separate IPV6toIPV4 tunnels in use for both
the Mystic and BBBS system and have not noticed any other connection anomalies
with the use of IPV6 connections.

Jeff

--- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-4
* Origin: Fidonet: The Ouija Board - Anoka, MN - bbs.ouijabrd.net (1:282/1031)