Hello Rixter!
On 27 Oct 2024, Rixter said the following...
24 hours ago my synchronet bbs v 3.19b stopped connecting to FSXnet. I have made no changes or updates to SBBS. I have rebooted my PC and still get this message. I am running windows 10 64b. This has all been working
I noticed something similar -- that my binkd, at least during incoming sessions (e.g. when Avon's machine connects to my binkd), appeared to get the connections cut off:
binkd.1:? 26 Oct 03:16:35 [2561622] recv: connection closed by foreign host
After some network sniffing it appears that my binkd tries to resolve all remote AKAs (which are quite many!) into IPs using the fsxnet.nz translation feature, and those DNS requests fail (timeout) for some reason. I'm guessing Avon's system then got tired of waiting for my binkd, and hence closed the connection.
A temporary workaround here was to disable the DNS lookups by changing:
domain fsxnet /mnt/bbs/echomail/out/fsxnet 21 fsxnet.nz
...to:
domain fsxnet /mnt/bbs/echomail/out/fsxnet 21 othernet.nodnslookup
...in binkd.cfg so that it tries to use a non-existent lookup service (instead of the fsxnet.nz lookup service), and hence fails immediately, and skips the translation. (The lookups aren't that important as all new nodes should end up in the nodelist after a week or so.)
In your case -- try changing f100.n1.z21.fsxnet.nz:24554 to net1.fsxnet.nz:24554 if possible. I believe those two should be interchangeable.
Best regards
Zip
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