Hi guys,

Wonder if anyone here has experience and a little time to help me get my MysticBBS config working with my Fidonet setup.

I have just been granted a node on Fidonet (2:250/5) and have set it all up using my RetroNet and fsxNet configs as a rough template. I have manually set up 1 message base, and manage to send and receive Netmails from individual people with my new Fidonet node, however when sending to Areafix/FileFix to
my Fido hub, my request goes out, the hub can see it, and responds with the answer to my request, I can even see in the logs it coming back in, however
it doesn't show in my Netmail message base.

The individual messages show up no problem in my Netmail base, just not the responses to Areafix/Filefix.

Any ideas?

I managed to send a %+ALL to Areafix, and then a little while later I managed to get a message back from a base that I hadn't manually created, and Mystic created it for me perfectly, as expected, however I just cannot get the
Netmail response from the Fidonet hub.

Sorry for the long message, hoping that someone on here has experienced this before and knows what I have messed up.

Thanks in advance.
Christian.

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Re: Fidonet setup help
By: MeaTLoTioN to All on Sat Sep 08 2018 07:10 pm

The individual messages show up no problem in my Netmail base, just not the responses to Areafix/Filefix.

Any ideas?

One possibility. Is the netmail addressed to you or an unknown name?

If it's addressed to "Sysop" you may need to add a forward to your mutil.ini that you use to import mail.

Sorry for the long message, hoping that someone on here has experienced this before and knows what I have messed up.

Be as long winded as you need to be.

I have never experienced this but I have gotten netmail that was not addressed to me and have needed to add a forward before.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al


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At least you got a response. It has been more than two weeks now for me and
the US and I haven't gotten that yet. I sent a message and the person said
they are probably busy.

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Bingo!

I had to pry open (not really pry) the returned messages in the /mystic/msgs/ folder to see the plain text file holding ALL the messages for Netmail, and
low and behold, there was a spelling mistake for my name, so I made another forward to forward the wrong spelling to the right one and it worked, and
then I emailed the zone controller to get them to change the spelling, and
now it all works! :)

Happy days. Troubleshooting went pretty well seeing as it's all working a
treat now.

Thanks for the suggestion. You were absolutely 100% correct.
Christian

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It took me about 2 weeks or so to get someone to get back to me and then a
few games of email tag before I even got a node... but since getting the
node today, emailing back and forth was very quick and now I'm all set up.

Good luck with your setup. :)

Best regards,
Christian.

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Re: Re: Fidonet setup help
By: 8-Bit to MeaTLoTioN on Sat Sep 08 2018 02:09 pm

At least you got a response. It has been more than two weeks now for me and the US and I haven't gotten that yet. I sent a message and the person said they are probably busy.

It shouldn't take long to get a node number.

Where are you located and who are you trying to contact?

Ttyl :-),
Al


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Re: Re: Fidonet setup help
By: MeaTLoTioN to Al on Sat Sep 08 2018 08:31 pm

Thanks for the suggestion. You were absolutely 100% correct.

Good stuff. Be seeing you are the net.. :)

Ttyl :-),
Al


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At least you got a response. It has been more than two weeks now for and the US and I haven't gotten that yet. I sent a message and the pe said they are probably busy.

How did you apply for a node? Was it via email?
I used the online form, found here:
http://www.filegate.net/zone1/bnbform.html

If you get stuck, and didn't try that form, perhaps you could try that form?

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I am in zone 1 and was told RJ Clay (James) was supposed to reach out to me.

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Re: Re: Fidonet setup help
By: 8-Bit to Al on Sat Sep 08 2018 08:34 pm

I am in zone 1 and was told RJ Clay (James) was supposed to reach out to me.

I just had a look at the fsxNet nodelist and I see you are in Wisconsin. Have you tried to contact Nickolas Boel? He is NC of net 154.

This is his nodelist info for 154/0 and 154/10.

Host,154,Wisconsin,Pewaukee_WI,Nicholas_Boel,-Unpublished-,300,CM,INA:binkp.pha rcyde.org,IBN ,10,The_Pharcyde_HUB,Pewaukee_WI,Nicholas_Boel,-Unpublished-,300,CM,INA:binkp.p harcyde.org,IBN

Nick is a long time sysop. Very knowledgeable in all things BBS and networks. I haven't seen him about in some time though.. I hope life hasn't sent him a curve.

RJ Clay is the coordinator of region 11. If you are having any trouble getting nodelisted you could reach out to him directly. The last time (a long time ago) I contacted RJ I used 1:120/544, the nodelist info is below.

,544,ftn.rocasa.net,Lansing_MI,RJ_Clay,000-198-144-184-12,300,XX,CM,MO,INA:ftn. rocasa.net,IBN,IFC,ITN:60177,PING

I'm sure of of those two can get you going in the right direction.

If not there are others we can contact as well.

Ttyl :-),
Al


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On 09/08/18, Al pondered and said...

One possibility. Is the netmail addressed to you or an unknown name?

If it's addressed to "Sysop" you may need to add a forward to your mutil.ini that you use to import mail.

Yep that's the answer :)

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On 09/08/18, Al pondered and said...

I just had a look at the fsxNet nodelist and I see you are in Wisconsin. Have you tried to contact Nickolas Boel? He is NC of net 154.

Nick is also a node in fsxNet but I agree with you Al his level of BBS
activity has reduced. I did see a post form him in Agoranet a few weeks back but by and large his involvement in all things BBS has dropped away over the last year or so as other interests prevailed. Best bet would be to email him.

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Re: Re: Fidonet setup help
By: Avon to Al on Sun Sep 09 2018 05:14 pm

Nick is also a node in fsxNet but I agree with you Al his level of BBS activity has reduced. I did see a post form him in Agoranet a few weeks back but by and large his involvement in all things BBS has dropped away over the last year or so as other interests prevailed. Best bet would be to email him.

8-Bit might have better luck that way. Do you happen to have Nick's email address?

Ttyl :-),
Al


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I am in zone 1 and was told RJ Clay (James) was supposed to reach out to me.

I am in the same zone - usually RH Clay gets back in touch with me within a week.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Raspberry Pi/32)
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I am in zone 1 and was told RJ Clay (James) was supposed to reach out to me.

Do you already have a node number? And also, what region are you in?
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Thanks for the help. I will see if I can reach out.

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No, I wasn't assigned a node number. Sorry I don't know my region as of yet.

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Hello,

I am curious if The Search BBS is still online. The domain bbs.thehomesteadinghippy.com is not responding and neither is searchbbs.fsnet.nz

If nristen isn't around.. anyone else have any news????

Thanks,

Fat Rastus

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On 09/17/18, Fat Rastus pondered and said...

I am curious if The Search BBS is still online. The domain bbs.thehomesteadinghippy.com is not responding and neither is searchbbs.fsnet.nz

Curious as Karl has just posted an answer to a trivia question on FSX_GEN.. Hmm. I'll check my polling when I get back home tonight.

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On 09/17/18, Fat Rastus pondered and said...

I am curious if The Search BBS is still online. The domain bbs.thehomesteadinghippy.com is not responding and neither is searchbbs.fsnet.nz

Just following up on this, yep no issues here in polling.

[snip]

Sep 18 19:51:33 FIDOPOLL Version 1.12 A39 2018/04/21
Sep 18 19:51:33 Scanning 21:1/161
Sep 18 19:51:33 Queued 0 files (0 bytes) to 21:1/161
Sep 18 19:51:33 Polling BINKP node 21:1/161 by IPV4
Sep 18 19:51:33 Connecting to searchbbs.fsxnet.nz
Sep 18 19:51:33 Using address 199.21.198.211
Sep 18 19:51:34 Connected IPV4 to 199.21.198.211
Sep 18 19:51:34 S: NUL SYS fsxHUB [fsxNet WHQ]
Sep 18 19:51:34 S: NUL ZYZ Paul Hayton
Sep 18 19:51:34 S: NUL VER Mystic/1.12A39 binkp/1.0
Sep 18 19:51:34 S: ADR 21:1/100@fsxnet 21:1/3@fsxnet 21:1/2@fsxnet 21:1/0@fsxnet 21:0/0@fsxnet
Sep 18 19:51:34 C: NUL OPT SSL CRAM-MD5-71af46d1adac3c56e518e51d1e73f2ed
Sep 18 19:51:34 C: NUL SYS The Search BBS
Sep 18 19:51:34 System The Search BBS
Sep 18 19:51:34 C: NUL ZYZ nristen
Sep 18 19:51:34 SysOp nristen
Sep 18 19:51:34 C: NUL VER Mystic/1.12A39 binkp/1.0
Sep 18 19:51:34 Mailer Mystic/1.12A39 binkp/1.0
Sep 18 19:51:34 C: ADR 21:1/161@fsxnet 1:227/70@fidonet 314:314/140@pinet 80:774/67@retronet 700:100/25@spooknet 40:200/33@cybernet 411:411/33@combatnt Sep 18 19:51:34 S: PWD
Sep 18 19:51:35 C: OK secure
Sep 18 19:51:35 S: EOB
Sep 18 19:51:35 C: EOB
Sep 18 19:51:35 Session ended (0 sent, 0 rcvd, 0 skip)

[snip]

Best, Paul

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On 09/18/18, Avon said the following...

On 09/17/18, Fat Rastus pondered and said...

Just following up on this, yep no issues here in polling.

[snip]

Thanks Paul,

I wonder if my IP ended up on one of those damn block lists again???? At
home my ISP uses NAT... if one person gets a Trojan then hundreds of
computers get blocked..

My mailer, which is on a VPS, can't reach him because he used his other
domain and it is not working... thehappyhomesteader.com (sp). I'll update to his fsxnet domain and see what happens..

Thanks,

Nick

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Just following up on this, yep no issues here in polling.

I wonder if my IP ended up on one of those damn block lists again???? At home my ISP uses NAT... if one person gets a Trojan then hundreds of computers get blocked..
My mailer, which is on a VPS, can't reach him because he used his other

Is this working now? Sorry, I have been out for a few days and just saw this message.

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On 09/21/18, nristen said the following...

Is this working now? Sorry, I have been out for a few days and just saw this message.

The domain you provided to me on Combatnet is still is not responding: bbs.thehomesteadinghipppy.com.

Avon had informed me that searchbbs was still accessing fsxnet and after I looked I saw you had a fsxnet sub-domain.

I edited my scripts to use your fsx sub-domain to get things working again.

Nick

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