• Fidopoll BSY Files?

    From Jeff Smith@1:282/1031 to All on Mon Sep 2 21:07:38 2019
    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)