Text 4465, 54 rader
Skriven 2010-11-26 10:43:12 av Jame Clay (1:120/546)
   Kommentar till text 4397 av Alexey Vissarionov (2:5020/545)
Ärende: Nodelist & DNS
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Hi Alexey!

> 20 Nov 2010 11:22:00, you wrote to me:
>>>>>>> http://gremlin.ru/fido/ndl2dns
>>> I wrote it as a proof-of-concept for FSP-1035.

>> Regarding that; I recommend that if/when it is updated, that some
>> 'service' names be added to the information in section 3. The
>> 'telnet' protocol, because that is a standard protocol that can be
>> used. And perhaps "tfido", for Fidonet EMSI over telnet (60177/tcp);

> Is it used somewhere, or documented just in case?

    Which?   Those names, "fido" & "tfido" as services?  


> It seems that nodes with "ITN" flag should actually use "IFC" instead.

    I don't think so;   it seems to me that although they may overlap,  they're
not the same...    I.E., "ITN" does not necessarily imply raw telnet
connections only, but IFC does.   (It does make me wonder, btw;  for systems
with an ITN flag listed, can their mailers actually handle non raw telnet
connections?)


>> and "fido", for Fidonet EMSI over TCP (60179/tcp).
> The "ifcico" keyword stands for this.

       But "Ifcico" is a program name, not a protocol name...


>> Note that tfido & fido are standard entries in /etc/services on
>> Debian systems, presumably because of ifcico.

>Very bad idea... The most significant amount of traffic is passed using binkp,
> so if something deserves to be named "fido" in /etc/services - that's binkp.

    And binkp is already listed on its own, so that is not an issue.


>But the name "fido" itself is confusing, as it is not somehow showing the exac
> protocol the node uses.

    Perhaps true, but it's been listed (in /etc/services on Debian systems)
that way for years.    Not sure that it's worth the trouble to get it changed
now...  But you're right that it might not be best to use them in something
like an ftsc document.  Perhaps reference the nodelist flags?



Jame

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