All,

When I write a crashnetmail to someone that's not listed in the node manager, irex tries to send that netmail using binkp to fxx.nxx.zxx.fidonet.net . Of course, this does not work. I was hoping that it would read the nodelist to find out the correct hostname as it is written in the manual. Is there someone here who has some experience with this?


Tom

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Tom,

10 Feb 19 15:32, I wrote to All:

When I write a crashnetmail to someone that's not listed in the node manager, irex tries to send that netmail using binkp to fxx.nxx.zxx.fidonet.net . Of course, this does not work. I was hoping
that it would read the nodelist to find out the correct hostname as it
is written in the manual. Is there someone here who has some
experience with this?

There must be people out there using IRex. What do you guys do if you want to send crash-netmail to someone? Please share your experiences! :-)



Tom

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Re: IRex not using nodelist?
By: Tom De Puysseleyr to All on Sun Mar 03 2019 06:07 pm

There must be people out there using IRex. What do you guys do if you want to send crash-netmail to someone? Please share your experiences! :-)

fidonet.net is no longer working, but I think that if you replace fidonet.net in your config with binkp.net it should resolve.

I haven't fired up irex in a while; if it can read a nodelist it should be able to pull the hostname from the nodelist...
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There must be people out there using IRex. What do you guys do if you
want to send crash-netmail to someone? Please share your experiences!
:-)

If you use the GoldEd+ Editor, execute the GoldNode compiler on each new nodelist (nodelist must be defined in Golded.Cfg) as for Windows: "GnWin.Exe -F

GoldEd.Cfg" within your GoldEd+ folder (i.e. c:\ged). Dunno about other editors, sorry.


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Kurt,

03 Mar 19 11:51, you wrote to me:

There must be people out there using IRex. What do you guys do if
you want to send crash-netmail to someone? Please share your
experiences! :-)

fidonet.net is no longer working, but I think that if you replace fidonet.net in your config with binkp.net it should resolve.

Something like this might work. But I can't find such a setting in the config. There's "domains", but they all say "fidonet", not fidonet.net ...

I haven't fired up irex in a while; if it can read a nodelist it
should be able to pull the hostname from the nodelist...

That's exactly what I thought it should do :)


Tom

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Ben,

03 Mar 19 14:49, you wrote to me:

There must be people out there using IRex. What do you guys do if
you want to send crash-netmail to someone? Please share your
experiences!
:-)

If you use the GoldEd+ Editor, execute the GoldNode compiler on each
new nodelist (nodelist must be defined in Golded.Cfg) as for Windows: "GnWin.Exe -F GoldEd.Cfg" within your GoldEd+ folder (i.e. c:\ged).
Dunno about other editors, sorry.

That's the one I'm using. And I run that command everytime there's a new nodelist. But somehow it seems like rex doesn't read those files. Does this work for you? I also have FrontDoor running (well, running, it just sits there, doing nothing). So there's also a Frontdoor nodelist in that folder. Maybe rex chooses the frontdoor-nodelist as its primary nodelist?



Tom

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Something like this might work. But I can't find such a setting in the config. There's "domains", but they all say "fidonet", not fidonet.net
...

Unless you KNOW you need the Domains, goto iRex Config, Address Manager, Domain

Setup, and delete everything there (might backup your rex folder first!) then try again. I could NOT get iRex to do diddly squat with anything defined for Domains! lol The author even told me not to use ...


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There must be people out there using IRex. What do you guys do if you want TDP>send crash-netmail to someone? Please share your experiences! :-)

Tom,

If they are part of a network, I usually send it to the hub (I poll
once an hour, unless I'm offline for thunderstorms). If they set up a
separate connect with me, the command is REXW -SEND #:##/#.# (the latter
for the node number, and point, if applicable).

Daryl

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That's the one I'm using. And I run that command everytime there's a
new nodelist. But somehow it seems like rex doesn't read those files.
Does this work for you? I also have FrontDoor running (well, running,
it just sits there, doing nothing). So there's also a Frontdoor
nodelist in that folder. Maybe rex chooses the frontdoor-nodelist as
its primary nodelist?

Should not matter, as long as the defined nodelist in Rex is a valid one :) When I setup new nodes my Rex uses the nodelist to pre-fill certain entries for

me, otherwise I don't know what it does otherwise {chuckle} as I don't use anything else that requires it. {shrug}

If you are writing a Netmail to a FIDO address NOT in the Rex config, it may try to validate this before sending, or not ... but should not need it. If you want the INA: setting address for that node I would expect Rex to look for a Rex defined node with that Node addy and grab the IP from there (i.e. BinkP node).

Rex is not a full-featured, bells & whistles type IP mailer like Mystic is, BUT

what it does do I've found it does do it well!


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Ben,

04 Mar 19 16:36, you wrote to me:

Unless you KNOW you need the Domains, goto iRex Config, Address
Manager, Domain Setup, and delete everything there (might backup your
rex folder first!) then try again. I could NOT get iRex to do diddly
squat with anything defined for Domains! lol The author even told me
not to use ...

Tried that - but it didn't change anything :-(


Tom

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Ben,

04 Mar 19 16:41, you wrote to me:

When I setup new nodes my Rex uses the nodelist to pre-fill
certain entries for me,

So when you add me to the node manager, it uses the correct hostname (i.e. fido.braindeath.be) ? When I try that with you, it uses f68.n393.z1.fidonet.net...

If you want the INA: setting address for that node I would
expect Rex to look for a Rex defined node with that Node addy and grab
the IP from there (i.e. BinkP node).

I was hoping that it would use the nodelist-entry for nodes that are not defined in the node manager. It says so in the docs...


Tom

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Daryl,

04 Mar 19 11:13, you wrote to me:

If they are part of a network, I usually send it to the hub (I poll
once an hour, unless I'm offline for thunderstorms). If they set up a separate connect with me, the command is REXW -SEND #:##/#.# (the
latter for the node number, and point, if applicable).

That's not really what crash mail is :-)


Tom

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I was hoping that it would use the nodelist-entry for nodes that are
not defined in the node manager. It says so in the docs...

Did you check Rex config, Files paths and programs, Frontend mailer setup, Nodelist directory? Contains a valid path? Nodelist present there? Just to make

sure ...


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On 2019 Mar 04 14:38:36, you wrote to Kurt Weiske:

fidonet.net is no longer working, but I think that if you replace
fidonet.net in your config with binkp.net it should resolve.

Something like this might work. But I can't find such a setting in the config. There's "domains", but they all say "fidonet", not fidonet.net ...

FTN domains are not the same as internet domains... they are akin to netbios/netbuei domains and are limited to 8 characters... there is some crossover in a few cases but f.n.z conversion lookups of FTN addresses require to be told the proper DNS domain to look up the f.n.z address on... in the case
of fidonet, that is now binkp.net because a domain squatter grabbed the fidonet.net domain years ago and wants too much $$$ for it...

just so you and others reading along understand, a f.n.z conversion looks like this...

my FTN address: 1:3634/12
converted to f.n.z: f12.n3634.z1

and now it needs an internet domain for the DNS lookup so since it is a fidonet
address, it gets binkp.net tacked on so that it looks like this...

f12.n3634.z1.binkp.net

and the binkp.net DNS will return the currently listed IP or a CNAME or NXDOMAIN if there's no entry for that address...

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Ben,

05 Mar 19 12:54, you wrote to me:

Did you check Rex config, Files paths and programs, Frontend mailer
setup, Nodelist directory? Contains a valid path? Nodelist present
there? Just to make sure ...

I chose FrontDoor 2.25+ and the path to the frontdoor nodelist folder seems to be valid. In the Golded config file I have entered the same path...


Tom

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mark,

05 Mar 19 15:36, you wrote to me:

FTN domains are not the same as internet domains... they are akin to netbios/netbuei domains and are limited to 8 characters... there is
some crossover in a few cases but f.n.z conversion lookups of FTN addresses require to be told the proper DNS domain to look up the
f.n.z address on... in the case of fidonet, that is now binkp.net
because a domain squatter grabbed the fidonet.net domain years ago and wants too much $$$ for it...

Ok, that I understand, but I find no setting in IRex to change the DNS domain. Do you have any idea about where to change that setting in IRex?


Tom

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Re: IRex not using nodelist?
By: Tom De Puysseleyr to mark lewis on Wed Mar 06 2019 12:45:40

[...] addresses require to be told the proper DNS domain to
look up the f.n.z address on... in the case of fidonet,
that is now binkp.net because a domain squatter grabbed the
fidonet.net domain years ago and wants too much $$$ for
it...

Ok, that I understand, but I find no setting in IRex to change
the DNS domain. Do you have any idea about where to change that
setting in IRex?

as i understand it, that's one of the problems with IREX... maybe the binary could be hex-edited but that could be a dangerous dance with the devil...


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mark,

06 Mar 19 09:27, you wrote to me:

as i understand it, that's one of the problems with IREX... maybe the binary could be hex-edited but that could be a dangerous dance with
the devil...

That doesn't sound like a good way to fix this :-)

I'm playing with the idea of making a small perl script that acts as a dns forwarder. Before forwarding, it replaces fidonet.net by binkp.net.

I'll report back here when I have some results.


Tom

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Hello Tom!

06 Mar 19 12:45, you wrote to mark lewis:

Ok, that I understand, but I find no setting in IRex to change the DNS domain. Do you have any idea about where to change that setting in
IRex?

I don't believe that you can. After you add the node to the Node Manager, you can change the DNS domain to binkp.net for that entry.

The last update to IRex was before the fidonet.net domain was grabbed by a domain squatter.

Andrew

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Tom De Puysseleyr wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

fidonet.net is no longer working, but I think that if you replace fidonet.net in your config with binkp.net it should resolve.

Something like this might work. But I can't find such a setting in the config. There's "domains", but they all say "fidonet", not fidonet.net ...

The "domains" setting in this context should not be anything like
"binkp.net" as IIRC, that has nothing to do with Internet connectivity
to other nodes -- just to identify AKAs with networks.

I haven't fired up irex in a while; if it can read a nodelist it
should be able to pull the hostname from the nodelist...

That's exactly what I thought it should do :)

I always have my netmail routed through my NC. I think IREX handles
domain names in nodelists IF the application that compiled the nodelist
does not ignore that flag in the nodelist. If it does, then I believe
Internet Rex follows that same logic.

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Tom De Puysseleyr wrote to Ben Ritchey <=-

That's the one I'm using. And I run that command everytime there's a
new nodelist. But somehow it seems like rex doesn't read those files. Does this work for you? I also have FrontDoor running (well, running,
it just sits there, doing nothing). So there's also a Frontdoor
nodelist in that folder. Maybe rex chooses the frontdoor-nodelist as
its primary nodelist?

Maybe FDNC.EXE ignores the TCP/IP entry in the nodelist, and, as such,
does not compile it in, therefore IREX may not even know it exists.

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On 2019 Mar 12 17:28:38, you wrote to Tom De Puysseleyr:

That's the one I'm using. And I run that command everytime there's a
new nodelist. But somehow it seems like rex doesn't read those
files. Does this work for you? I also have FrontDoor running (well,
running, it just sits there, doing nothing). So there's also a
Frontdoor nodelist in that folder. Maybe rex chooses the
frontdoor-nodelist as its primary nodelist?

Maybe FDNC.EXE ignores the TCP/IP entry in the nodelist,

it does not...

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Andrew,

08 Mar 19 06:59, you wrote to me:

I don't believe that you can. After you add the node to the Node
Manager, you can change the DNS domain to binkp.net for that entry.

The thing is that I don't want to add each node to the node manager... I could
indeed send everything to my uplink, but I want to be able to send mail directly, on principle :-)



Tom

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Hello Tom!

13 Mar 19 12:21, you wrote to me:

The thing is that I don't want to add each node to the node manager...
I could indeed send everything to my uplink, but I want to be able to
send mail directly, on principle :-)

IRex will attempt to use f<node>.n<net>.z<zone>.fidonet.net for nodes that aren't listed in the Node Manager. This will, of course, fail because of the loss of the fidonet.net domain. It is very unlikely that IRex will ever be fixed to use binkp.net. :-(

Andrew

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Something like this might work. But I can't find such a setting in the config. There's "domains", but they all say "fidonet", not fidonet.net ...

Unless you KNOW you need the Domains, goto iRex Config, Address Manager, Domain

Setup, and delete everything there (might backup your rex folder first!) then try again. I could NOT get iRex to do diddly squat with anything defined for Domains! lol The author even told me not to use ...

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I am able to receive mail but not send packets. I know I used to have it work,
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