• error in binkp

    From dream master@21:1/163 to All on Monday, April 16, 2018 00:03:47
    i am getting this when one of my downlinks connectBINKP
    1-No matching AKA to authenticateBINKP 1-Cannot authen
    ticate clientwhen we remove the password it works. a
    ny ideas? .úùDre
    am Masterùú. øùú
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  • From Al@21:4/106 to dream master on Monday, April 16, 2018 00:32:22
    Re: error in binkp
    By: dream master to All on Mon Apr 16 2018 12:03 am

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    I hope you can see what I am replying too!

    It sounds like there is no matching AKA to authenticate with.. a typo maybe?

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From Pequito@21:1/126 to dream master on Monday, April 16, 2018 01:51:31
    On 04/16/18, dream master said the following...

    i am getting this when one of my downlinks connect

    BINKP 1-No matching AKA to authenticate
    BINKP 1-Cannot authenticate client


    Pretty sure most of this is fixed in A39. :)

    Cheers!
    Pequito

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  • From dream master@21:1/163 to Al on Monday, April 16, 2018 00:37:15
    On 04/16/18, Al said the following...
    [0mi am getting this when one of my downlinks connect[B[50D[B[1DBINKP [A[5C 1-No matching AKA to authenticate[B[42DBINKP 1-Cannot authen [A[24Cticate client[B[37D[B[1Dwhen we remove the password it works. a [A[40Cny ideas? [B[50D[B[1D [1;30m.[0;35mú[1mù[37mDr[0me [A[9C[1;30mam Ma[0mst[1mer[35mù[0;35mú[1;30m.[B[21D øù[0;35mú [A[6C[1mùø[9Cøù[0;35mú[1;30mùø[B[22D [36mDoRE[0;36m![1mACiDiC

    i don't know where these ansi escape codes are coming from.

    I hope you can see what I am replying too!
    It sounds like there is no matching AKA to authenticate with.. a typo maybe?

    no it's only when there is a password entered and it is the same we checked.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to dream master on Monday, April 16, 2018 19:56:36
    On 04/16/18, dream master pondered and said...

    i am getting this when one of my downlinks connect

    BINKP 1-No matching AKA to authenticate
    BINKP 1-Cannot authenticate client

    Check your downlink has specified the correct address for you and also
    spelled the domain name correctly (next field underneath your address)

    Address ³ 44:100/0
    Domain ³ dorenet
    Session Type ³ BinkP
    Archive Type ³ ZIP
    Export Type ³ Crash
    Route Info ³ 44:*
    Max PKT Size ³ 512
    Max ARC Size ³ 2048
    Use Filebox ³ No
    Filebox Dir ³

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to dream master on Monday, April 16, 2018 01:08:19
    Re: error in binkp
    By: dream master to Al on Mon Apr 16 2018 12:37 am

    no it's only when there is a password entered and it is the same we checked.

    I wonder if it is the number of Aka's? Have you or your link tried setting "Hide AKAs" to yes?

    There may be some kind of limit to how many AKAs can be presented.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al


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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to dream master on Monday, April 16, 2018 12:58:42
    i am getting this when one of my downlinks connect

    BINKP 1-No matching AKA to authenticate
    BINKP 1-Cannot authenticate client

    when we remove the password it works. any ideas?

    "No matching AKA to authenticate" means the address they are presenting is
    not configured in your Echomail nodes. The logging you're showing doesn't
    show the address their presenting though, so I can't help further.

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Pequito on Monday, April 16, 2018 12:59:44
    BINKP 1-No matching AKA to authenticate
    BINKP 1-Cannot authenticate client


    Pretty sure most of this is fixed in A39. :)

    In this case I don't think there is anything to fix. In general there has been only one change to BINKP in the past (years?) and it was the recent change related to BinkIT.

    The message tells you the problem :)

    Whatever address the client is presenting is not configured as an echomail node.

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  • From dream master@21:1/163 to Pequito on Monday, April 16, 2018 12:35:19
    On 04/16/18, Pequito said the following...
    BINKP 1-No matching AKA to authenticate
    BINKP 1-Cannot authenticate client
    Pretty sure most of this is fixed in A39. :)

    he's using A39 i'm not yet.

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  • From dream master@21:1/163 to g00r00 on Monday, April 16, 2018 12:38:40
    On 04/16/18, g00r00 said the following...
    i am getting this when one of my downlinks connect
    BINKP 1-No matching AKA to authenticate
    BINKP 1-Cannot authenticate client
    when we remove the password it works. any ideas?
    "No matching AKA to authenticate" means the address they are presenting
    is not configured in your Echomail nodes. The logging you're showing doesn't show the address their presenting though, so I can't help
    further.

    ok i will have to look at what he has because setup.

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  • From dream master@21:1/163 to g00r00 on Monday, April 16, 2018 13:00:10
    On 04/16/18, g00r00 said the following...
    BINKP 1-No matching AKA to authenticate
    BINKP 1-Cannot authenticate client
    Pretty sure most of this is fixed in A39. :)
    In this case I don't think there is anything to fix. In general there
    has been only one change to BINKP in the past (years?) and it was the recent change related to BinkIT.
    The message tells you the problem :)
    Whatever address the client is presenting is not configured as an
    echomail node.

    he informed me he had the domain spelled wrong. he has the right address.he
    had hide aka off.

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to dream master on Monday, April 16, 2018 16:39:59
    "No matching AKA to authenticate" means the address they are presenti is not configured in your Echomail nodes. The logging you're showing doesn't show the address their presenting though, so I can't help further.

    ok i will have to look at what he has because setup.

    It should show the address they're trying to use in the log just above where you pasted from. It will look something like this:

    + 2018.04.16 16:38:19 BINKP 1-C: ADR 55:5/3@testnet

    That is the address one of the test nodes in my test network is trying to log in with. One of the addresses they present (they can give just one or many) has to match the address of a node in your echomail node configuration.

    If a connection tries to log in but does not have a record in the echomail node configuration with a matching address, that is when you see the "No matching address to authenticate" message.

    The address and domain have to match exactly (with the exception of .org .com .net that sometimes people incorrectly add to their domain, Mystic just strips that).

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to dream master on Monday, April 16, 2018 16:43:58
    he informed me he had the domain spelled wrong. he has the right address.he had hide aka off.

    There you go. That will do it! So they can log in now?

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to KrUpTiOn on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 09:56:27
    On 04/16/18, KrUpTiOn pondered and said...

    It says that exactly,.... but with ANY password any case it won't authenticate, with no password works fine

    I would set a password no longer than 7 chars and keep it all uppercase

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to dream master on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 08:37:00
    dream master wrote to All <=-

    i am getting this when one of my downlinks
    connectBINKP 1-No matching AKA to
    authenticateBINKP 1-Cannot authen ticate
    clientwhen we remove the password it works. a
    ny ideas? .úùDre
    am Masterùú.
    øùú ùøøùúùø
    DoRE!ACiDiC
    !Demonic[dreamland.darkte
    ch .org]
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    DM, do you _REALLY_ need to use ANSI in a message like this? While I can read ANSI, I'm not able to reply with any reasonable quoting (see above). Your use of ANSI is actually impeding communication. And the issue you're having is a case I may be able to help with, because I use both Mystic and binkd. First thing I would do is make sure you have your domains right. Mystic and binkd are both 5D aware mailers. I've had that error when I've had my domain wrong in my AKAs.

    Some details like the domains, addresses and nodes (redact your passwords!!!) parts of binkd.conf would help, as well as the equivalent on the other end, if possible.

    I run binkd - Mystic between my two BBSs without any issues, and a few of my downlinks on VKRadio use binkd to my Mystic hub, so I'm happy to help. :)
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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to g00r00 on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 08:51:00
    g00r00 wrote to dream master <=-

    i am getting this when one of my downlinks connect

    BINKP 1-No matching AKA to authenticate
    BINKP 1-Cannot authenticate client

    when we remove the password it works. any ideas?

    "No matching AKA to authenticate" means the address they are presenting
    is not configured in your Echomail nodes. The logging you're showing doesn't show the address their presenting though, so I can't help
    further.

    Both sides need to be compared to resolve these issues, I've dealt with a couple of them myself. Typos and missing/incorrect domains are the major culprits. Can occur on either end, and sometimes can be recognised by looking through the binkd logs for the session. Binkd is pretty good at logging this stuff. If that doesn't reveal the issue, then the only recource is to compare the setup on both ends.

    Unless you've done something in the new pre-alphas to the binkp code, it's not Mystic - I routinely use binkd and Mystic together - both for the link between my two BBSs, as well as a couple of my downlinks run binkd to my Mystic hub.


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to dream master on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 08:52:00
    dream master wrote to g00r00 <=-

    he informed me he had the domain spelled wrong. he has the right address.he had hide aka off.

    The wrong domain will give that error. )


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to g00r00 on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 08:54:00
    g00r00 wrote to dream master <=-

    The address and domain have to match exactly (with the exception of
    .org .com .net that sometimes people incorrectly add to their domain, Mystic just strips that).

    Interesting, binkd requires that you explicitly configure aliases (i.e. incorrectly specified domains). :) There's pros and cons either way I guess.


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  • From KrUpTiOn@21:2/105 to Avon on Monday, April 16, 2018 20:43:20
    On 04/17/18, Avon said the following...

    I would set a password no longer than 7 chars and keep it all uppercase



    We figured it out 1) I had 'dornet' as the domain, misspeling! and I hid my aka's.. works like a champ now!

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to KrUpTiOn on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 15:39:03
    On 04/16/18, KrUpTiOn pondered and said...

    We figured it out 1) I had 'dornet' as the domain, misspeling! and I hid my aka's.. works like a champ now!

    Yep good catch. I think when this first was posted I had replied and
    suggested this also. Spelling often catches people out.

    g00r00 - suggestion might be to populate that field from another setup screen where sysops can load the zone and domain name as a combo then use a
    selection tool to choose that base info and finish off by adding net and
    node.. dunno... it may be overkill but perhaps something like that would
    avoid some of these typo errors we see?

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Vk3jed on Monday, April 16, 2018 20:10:37
    DM, do you _REALLY_ need to use ANSI in a message like this? While I can ANSI, I'm not able to reply with any reasonable quoting (see above). Your of ANSI is actually impeding communication. And the issue you're having i

    His messages render fine in Mystic so I don't think he's doing it intentionally.

    ANSI messages are permitted in this echo and embedded ANSI is fully supported and rendered properly within messages in Mystic (and in file descriptions too).

    What likely happens is the message gets saved as a pipe code in his signature, but if he edits it afterwards Mystic will re-save it as ANSI, assuming he has ANSI enabled for this base (which probably everyone does because its allowed and I/we occasionally use it)

    Mystic will often prefix ANSI messages with [ANSI] in the subject, but he may have that feature disabled.

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Vk3jed on Monday, April 16, 2018 20:19:02
    The address and domain have to match exactly (with the exception of .org .com .net that sometimes people incorrectly add to their domain, Mystic just strips that).

    Interesting, binkd requires that you explicitly configure aliases (i.e. incorrectly specified domains). :) There's pros and cons either way I guess.

    The standard domain for Fidonet is 8 characters, and it cannot be longer without breaking the BSO standard, because the domain name is used in the directory structure. Anything over 8 characters would break compatibility with 5D BSO on an 8.3 file system.

    Mystic requires you to do it right, so you can't define more than 8 characters and instead it will strip off .com/.net if a client has that in their domain name when they try to authenticate.

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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Avon on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 00:20:16
    g00r00 - suggestion might be to populate that field from another setup screen where sysops can load the zone and domain name as a combo then
    use a selection tool to choose that base info and finish off by adding
    net and node.. dunno... it may be overkill but perhaps something like
    that would avoid some of these typo errors we see?

    This is a tough one but you're onto something... I'm a few adult drinks into the night (more than a few we're celebrating for a not good reason) so this is going to be hard to read. I'm too wordy when I am sober lol

    One of the first things I did when I committed to going "all in" on echomail a 6-8 years ago was I looked at my "FastEcho and IREX" setup with the goal of simplifying redundant configuration. *One of those was the domain/zone/network association*.

    A typical echomail setup required a mailer, tosser, and BBS (three pieces of software) and a configuration for the mailer, a configuration for each node, a configuration for the BBS message bases, and a configuration for the tosser that also includes the message bases in a second place, and the nodes in a second place. 3-4 softwares 5 configurations full of redundant shit between them...

    Mystic simplified that to one software with an "echomail node" definition along with the existing BBS "message base" and everything in between can be figured out by the software. I want to keep it that way and avoid as much "feature creep/redundancy" as we can. So because of that I am thinking veto on the zone/domain definition as a requirement/configuration editor kinda thing.

    Here's my proposal: Lets define a text file that as a zone and domain mapping, and when you're entering an echomail address in Mystic, if the domain is empty, it will auto populate the domain based on the file. This file would be strictly UI "auto-fill" related and have zero influence on the echomail system.

    Here's the thing though...

    This helps to eliminate typos on Mystic ONLY. It does absolutely nothing for any other BBS setup on the planet. So is it worth this effort to do all of this?

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  • From dream master@21:1/163 to g00r00 on Monday, April 16, 2018 23:05:22
    On 04/16/18, g00r00 said the following...
    he informed me he had the domain spelled wrong. he has the right address.he had hide aka off.
    There you go. That will do it! So they can log in now?

    yes ;) exhales ;)

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to g00r00 on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 20:41:07
    On 04/17/18, g00r00 pondered and said...

    This is a tough one but you're onto something... I'm a few adult drinks into the night (more than a few we're celebrating for a not good reason) so this is going to be hard to read. I'm too wordy when I am sober lol

    [danger will robertson]

    between can be figured out by the software. I want to keep it that way and avoid as much "feature creep/redundancy" as we can. So because of that I am thinking veto on the zone/domain definition as a requirement/configuration editor kinda thing.

    Yep understood.

    Here's my proposal: Lets define a text file that as a zone and domain mapping, and when you're entering an echomail address in Mystic, if the domain is empty, it will auto populate the domain based on the file.
    This file would be strictly UI "auto-fill" related and have zero
    influence on the echomail system.

    That would help ensure consistency within the setup of echonodes within the Mystic system. I'd suggest a fresh install of Mystic could ship with a pre-poulated file much like the spell checking system does with some extra words already pre-loaded e.g. Fidonet etc. I'm also wondering about case sensitivity for that field. Does it matter, perhaps lowercase is the accepted convention and if an entry in this txt file were to have caps then Mystic
    would ignore that and just populate the UI with the lowercase version anyway.

    Here's the thing though...
    This helps to eliminate typos on Mystic ONLY. It does absolutely
    nothing for any other BBS setup on the planet. So is it worth this
    effort to do all of this?

    Interesting you should say that. Well in so far as Mystic is concerned given
    a few folks use it, may use it in the future, I'd say it's worth doing if
    it's not too much of a PITA to code.

    As for the wider BBS scene I wonder if this is an idea that might be
    of interest to other developers of current BBS software. It's not hard to imagine an agreed format for such a .TXT file that could be used between a number of packages in the same manner. Much like file_id.diz are imported by many BBS packages today. Perhaps I propose an agreed spec and an initial
    list of known zones and network domains etc. if there are others interested in the idea? At best it could provide active BBS with a current list of FTN networks and their associated domains. And at worst that part of my idea
    could lead to a lot of dated FTN nets being needlessly listed after they were long gone. So I think there might be some trade offs with this idea but my glass is half full on this one :)

    Best, Paul

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  • From KrUpTiOn@21:2/105 to Avon on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 04:34:51
    On 04/17/18, Avon said the following...


    Yep good catch. I think when this first was posted I had replied and suggested this also. Spelling often catches people out.

    g00r00 - suggestion might be to populate that field from another setup screen where sysops can load the zone and domain name as a combo then
    use a selection tool to choose that base info and finish off by adding
    net and node.. dunno... it may be overkill but perhaps something like
    that would avoid some of these typo errors we see?



    THAT would be a awesome idea! Saves alot of setup tine and simple errors

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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to g00r00 on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 18:58:00
    g00r00 wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    DM, do you _REALLY_ need to use ANSI in a message like this? While I can ANSI, I'm not able to reply with any reasonable quoting (see above). Your of ANSI is actually impeding communication. And the issue you're having i

    His messages render fine in Mystic so I don't think he's doing it intentionally.

    I can view them, but have to use the ANSI viewer. Just makes it harder to get sensible quoting in an offline rader. :)

    ANSI messages are permitted in this echo and embedded ANSI is fully supported and rendered properly within messages in Mystic (and in file descriptions too).

    What likely happens is the message gets saved as a pipe code in his signature, but if he edits it afterwards Mystic will re-save it as
    ANSI, assuming he has ANSI enabled for this base (which probably
    everyone does because its allowed and I/we occasionally use it)

    Mystic will often prefix ANSI messages with [ANSI] in the subject, but
    he may have that feature disabled.

    Yeah, it's not a problem for me to just read them, but it is an issue when replying, since Notepad doesn't understand ANSI and Multimail doesn't strip it.


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  • From Vk3jed@21:1/109 to g00r00 on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 19:03:00
    g00r00 wrote to Vk3jed <=-

    The standard domain for Fidonet is 8 characters, and it cannot be
    longer without breaking the BSO standard, because the domain name is
    used in the directory structure. Anything over 8 characters would
    break compatibility with 5D BSO on an 8.3 file system.

    Mystic requires you to do it right, so you can't define more than 8 characters and instead it will strip off .com/.net if a client has that
    in their domain name when they try to authenticate.

    Good point. Not that it's been an issue, because all the domains I've entered have been compliant. :)


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  • From g00r00@21:1/108 to Avon on Tuesday, April 17, 2018 23:06:16
    That would help ensure consistency within the setup of echonodes within the Mystic system. I'd suggest a fresh install of Mystic could ship with
    a pre-poulated file much like the spell checking system does with some

    Yep thats what it will be just a file that sits in the DATA directory. It'll serve no purpose but to make entering addresses easier by suggesting the domain associated to a zone after you type in the numeric portion of the address.

    about case sensitivity for that field. Does it matter, perhaps lowercase is the accepted convention and if an entry in this txt file were to have

    They are case insensitive as far as I know, but for consistency I was planning to put them all as lower cased in the file and Mystic takes whatever that value is.

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  • From Avon@21:1/101 to g00r00 on Wednesday, April 18, 2018 20:20:06
    On 04/17/18, g00r00 pondered and said...

    Yep thats what it will be just a file that sits in the DATA directory. It'll serve no purpose but to make entering addresses easier by
    suggesting the domain associated to a zone after you type in the numeric

    Sounds fine to me.

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