• binkstats.ini error messages

    From Khronos@CWSHACK to All on Tue Feb 6 14:19:25 2024
    Hi,
    I am setting up a peer and I get the following messages in the binkstats.ini file.
    I get a callout failure even though the traffic appears to be sent properly somehow.

    [callout failure: 38:585/1@fu-net]
    oper = Jason Bock
    AKAs = 1:267/310@fidonet.,1:1/101@fidonet.,1:267/311@fidonet.,10:101/10@araknet,21:2/141@fsxnet,25:25/9@metronet,38:38/0@fu-net,38:38/1@fu-net,38:38/2@fu-net,38:585/0@fu-net,38:585/1@fu-net,38:972/0@fu-net,38:972/1@fu-net,39:902/538@amiganet,46:10/177@agoranet,77:1/149@scinet,110:221/0@linuxnet,110:221/1@linuxnet,411:411/42@combatnt,432:1/154@vkradio,454:1/310@ilink,618:100/40@micronet,1337:3/189@tqwnet
    caps = CM,IBN
    vers = Internet Rex 2.31 Win32
    host = siliconu.com
    port = 24554
    info.sys = SiliconUnderground - ProBoard / FuNet WHQ
    info.loc = Rochester, NY
    info.time = 2024/02/06 14:11:10 -5:00
    localtime = Feb 6 2024 14:11:09

    My syslog entries look like:
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL BinkIT/2.41 invoked with options: -p
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Attempting poll for node 38:585/1@fu-net
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL JSBinkP/4 callout to 38:585/1@fu-net started
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Connecting to 38:585/1@fu-net at siliconu.com:24554
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Peer version: Internet Rex 2.31 Win32
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Peer ended their VER with " (binkp/1.1)" instead of the required " binkp/1.1", but we're assuming binkp 1.1 anywayFeb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Authentication successful:
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Timed event: BINKPOLL returned 0

    On all of my other peers I get callout success messages.

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  • From Accession@PHARCYDE to Khronos on Tue Feb 6 17:07:02 2024
    On Tue, 6 Feb 2024 20:19:24 -0500, Khronos -> All wrote:

    Feb  6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Peer ended their VER with " (binkp/1.1)" instead of the required " binkp/1.1", but we're assuming binkp 1.1 anywayFeb  6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Authentication successful:
    Feb  6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Timed event: BINKPOLL returned 0

    On all of my other peers I get callout success messages.

    "returned 0" also usually means success.

    Either way, I think that's just telling you that Irex is hot garbage these days, and doesn't follow the standard in regards to how it's supposed to handshake/authenticate. ;)

    Regards,
    Nick

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  • From Digital Man to Khronos on Tue Feb 6 18:04:42 2024
    Re: binkstats.ini error messages
    By: Khronos to All on Tue Feb 06 2024 02:19 pm

    Hi,
    I am setting up a peer and I get the following messages in the binkstats.ini file.
    I get a callout failure even though the traffic appears to be sent properly somehow.

    [callout failure: 38:585/1@fu-net]
    oper = Jason Bock
    AKAs = 1:267/310@fidonet.,1:1/101@fidonet.,1:267/311@fidonet.,10:101/10 @araknet,21 :2/141@fsxnet,25:25/9@metronet,38:38/0@fu-net,38:38/1@fu-net,38:38/2 @fu-net ,38:585/0@fu-net,38:585/1@fu-net,38:972/0@fu-net,38:972/1@fu-net,39:902/ 538 @amiganet,46:10/177@agoranet,77:1/149@scinet,110:221/0@linuxnet,110:221/1@li nuxnet,411:411/42@combatnt,432:1/154@vkradio,454:1/310@ilink,618:100/40@micr one t,1337:3/189@tqwnet
    caps = CM,IBN
    vers = Internet Rex 2.31 Win32
    host = siliconu.com
    port = 24554
    info.sys = SiliconUnderground - ProBoard / FuNet WHQ
    info.loc = Rochester, NY
    info.time = 2024/02/06 14:11:10 -5:00
    localtime = Feb 6 2024 14:11:09

    My syslog entries look like:
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL BinkIT/2.41 invoked with options: -p
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Attempting poll for node 38:585/1@fu-net
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL JSBinkP/4 callout to 38:585/1@fu-net started
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Connecting to 38:585/1@fu-net at siliconu.com:24554
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Peer version: Internet Rex 2.31 Win32
    Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Peer ended their VER with " (binkp/1.1)" instead of the required " binkp/1.1", but we're assuming binkp 1.1 anywayFeb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Authentication successful: Feb 6 14:11:09 bbs synchronet: evnt BINKPOLL Timed event: BINKPOLL returned 0

    On all of my other peers I get callout success messages.

    It's kind of a mystery without more debugging of what's the actual failure being detected in BinkP.prototype.session or BinkP.prototype.connect in load/binkp.js. Feel free to add some debugging if you want to find the issue, but if all looks fine and packets/files are flowing, then you can probably safely ignore the error as well.
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