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                           A "first"
                           By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555
                           IPv6 Watcher


November not only brought us the hassle of the end of daylight saving
time, it also brought us the milestone of a remarkable 'first".

Andre Grueneberg of 2:2411/525 made a binkp connection over IPv6 with
the system of Benny Pedersen at 2:230/0. Well, it may not really be
the first, others may have experimented in silence, but this was the
first that was publicly announced in the IPV6 echo, so I will award
the honour to them. Here are the log snippets as published in the IPV6
echo:

From the sender:

+ 01 Nov 23:05:46 [7935] call to 2:230/0@fidonet
  01 Nov 23:05:47 [7935] trying 2001:16d8:dd00:137::2...
  01 Nov 23:05:47 [7935] connected
+ 01 Nov 23:05:47 [7935] outgoing session with home.junc.org (24554)
- 01 Nov 23:05:47 [7935] OPT CRAM-MD5-9b723292e4943d4bf1c7dc6162fddb32
+ 01 Nov 23:05:47 [7935] Remote requests MD mode
- 01 Nov 23:05:47 [7935] SYS xpoint at home.junc.org
- 01 Nov 23:05:47 [7935] ZYZ Benny Pedersen
...
+ 01 Nov 23:05:47 [7935] done (to 2:230/0@fidonet, OK, S/R: 1/0
   (1254/0 bytes))
  01 Nov 23:05:47 [7935] session closed, quitting...
  01 Nov 23:05:48 [25443] rc(7935)=0

From thge receiver:

   ----- qico.log begins -----
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: answering incoming call
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: remote is 0.0.0.0
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: starting inbound Binkp session
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: address: 2:2411/525@fidonet
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]:     aka: 2:2411/526@fidonet
  2:2411/1@fidonet
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]:     aka: 2:2411/3@fidonet
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]:  system: Blackhole
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]:    from: Blankenfelde, Germany
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]:   sysop: Andre Grueneberg
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]:   phone: -Unpublished-
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]:   flags: [115200] TCP,BINKP
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]:  mailer: binkd/1.0ipv6-106/Linux
 binkp/1.1
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]:    time: 23:05:47, unknown
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]:  for us: 1254b mail, 0b files
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: we have: 0b mail, 0b files
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: options: Binkp/MB/MD5
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: start recv: b1954c43.pkt, 1254 bytes,
estimated time 00:00:01
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: rcvd: b1954c43.pkt, 1254 bytes, 1254
 cps [ok]
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: total: 0:00:00 online, 0b sent, 1254b
 received
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: session with 2:2411/525 successful
 [ok]
01 Nov 11 23:05:47 binkp[14405]: exiting with rc=0
   ----- qico.log ends -----



Andre did the programming to add IPv6 to binkd. The diff/patch for
his code can be found at:
http://andre.grueneberg.de/binkd/binkd_ipv6.diff. Benny used some
qico as an IPv6 to IPv4 proxy in combination with an IPv4 mailer.

So congratulations to Andre and Benny for this "first".  And Kudos to
Andre for adding IPv6 to binkd!



¸ Michiel van der Vlist, all rights reserved.
Permission to publish in the FIDONEWS file scho and the FIDONEWS
discussion echo as originating from 2:2/2


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                        One less
                        By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555


With sadness in my hearth, I report that our fellow sysop Johannes
"Hans" Beekhuizen, 2:280/1018 is no longer with us. As I learned
Monday last week, he died on the 18th of October.

His system went off-line around the 15th of October. Knowing that Hans
had serious health problems, I feared the worst, especially since his
web server and his e-mail server were also down, so e-mail was
bounced. Plus that his telephone number - at least the number I had -
apparently was cancelled. So I was worried, but could not get
confirmation until last Monday whan I obtained a copy of the
newsletter of the church where he was a member.

Hans was a dedicated FidoNet member for a very long time. I first
found him in nodelist.006 of 1995.

Hans was diagnosed with diabetes. The bad kind. about a year ago, his
eyes and kidneys were so bad that he could no longer participate in
Fidonet and he cancelled his node number. To our great delight, he
asked for a relisting a few month later. His condition had improved,
and he wanted to participate again. Nevertheless, his life was very
restricted because of the dialysis.

On October 5th he had a stroke and was hospitalised. For a week it was
up and down, but then his condition detoriated to the point that he
had to let go.

Rest in peace Hans, we will miss you.


Michiel van der Vlist. NC280.


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