Re: Re: Fidonet - sbbsecho looks good... binkit timed events don't do anyth
By: Wilfred van Velzen to Digital Man on Wed Jul 10 2024 12:23 pm
FTN domains are by definition a maximum of 8 characters in length, so "fidonet.org" clearly is an invalid FTN domain. And it's just wrong anyway.
The hub should fix that.
You're probably right. ;-)
But in the default configuration for binkd there is this section:
# Aliases to support known DNS domain zones
# (some people mix up the terms "FTN domain" and "DNS internet domain") domain fidonet.org alias-for fidonet
domain fidonet.net alias-for fidonet
So if binkit can do something similar, you can still make connections work when others make mistakes.
Sure, it would be possible for BinkIT to have some hacky work-around for misconfigured nodes, but if possible, it would preferable to just fix the configuration of the node in question.
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