Hello everybody!

How can I troubleshoot binkd not processing outbound directories for other zones than default?
HPT leaves direct messages for zone 2 in outb.002 and so. I change loglevel to 9 but I still can see any errors in binkd.log.
The first time the tosser created the directories where created with 755 permission, I changed all of outb* directories to 770.

drwxrwx--- 15 fido fido 15 Sep 20 00:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 10 May 18 19:50 ..
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 34 Sep 19 15:44 dupebase
drwxrwx--- 5 fido fido 5 Sep 15 12:50 filebase
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 2 May 18 19:50 fileboxes
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 2 May 18 19:10 flags
drwxrwx--- 3 fido fido 11 Sep 20 00:11 inb
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 2 Sep 20 00:11 inbound-temp
drwxrwx--- 5 fido fido 5 Jun 8 22:08 msgbase
drwxrwx--- 3 fido fido 3 Sep 20 00:11 outb
drwxrwx--- 3 fido fido 3 Sep 19 13:49 outb.001
drwxrwx--- 4 fido fido 6 Sep 20 00:10 outb.002
drwxrwx--- 3 fido fido 3 Sep 20 00:11 outb.015
drwxrwx--- 4 fido fido 4 Sep 16 11:47 tmp
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 2 May 18 19:50 transit

fido:/var/spool/ftn$ ls -al outb.002
total 23
drwxrwx--- 4 fido fido 6 Sep 20 00:10 .
drwxrwx--- 15 fido fido 15 Sep 20 00:11 ..
-rwxrwx--- 1 fido fido 422 Sep 19 13:31 00dd0001.cut
drwxrwx--- 3 fido fido 5 Sep 20 00:10 00dd0001.pnt
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 2 Sep 19 13:31 00dd0001.sep
-rw-r--r-- 1 fido fido 23 Sep 20 00:10 00dd0001.try



binkd is running as user fido.

Javier


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Hi Javier,

On 2025-09-20 00:25:02, you wrote to All:

How can I troubleshoot binkd not processing outbound directories for
other zones than default? HPT leaves direct messages for zone 2 in outb.002 and so. I change loglevel to 9 but I still can see any errors
in binkd.log. The first time the tosser created the directories where created with 755 permission, I changed all of outb* directories to
770.

drwxrwx--- 15 fido fido 15 Sep 20 00:11 .
drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 10 May 18 19:50 ..
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 34 Sep 19 15:44 dupebase
drwxrwx--- 5 fido fido 5 Sep 15 12:50 filebase
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 2 May 18 19:50 fileboxes
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 2 May 18 19:10 flags
drwxrwx--- 3 fido fido 11 Sep 20 00:11 inb
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 2 Sep 20 00:11 inbound-temp
drwxrwx--- 5 fido fido 5 Jun 8 22:08 msgbase
drwxrwx--- 3 fido fido 3 Sep 20 00:11 outb
drwxrwx--- 3 fido fido 3 Sep 19 13:49 outb.001
drwxrwx--- 4 fido fido 6 Sep 20 00:10 outb.002
drwxrwx--- 3 fido fido 3 Sep 20 00:11 outb.015
drwxrwx--- 4 fido fido 4 Sep 16 11:47 tmp
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 2 May 18 19:50 transit

fido:/var/spool/ftn$ ls -al outb.002
total 23
drwxrwx--- 4 fido fido 6 Sep 20 00:10 .
drwxrwx--- 15 fido fido 15 Sep 20 00:11 ..
-rwxrwx--- 1 fido fido 422 Sep 19 13:31 00dd0001.cut
drwxrwx--- 3 fido fido 5 Sep 20 00:10 00dd0001.pnt
drwxrwx--- 2 fido fido 2 Sep 19 13:31 00dd0001.sep
-rw-r--r-- 1 fido fido 23 Sep 20 00:10 00dd0001.try

What is the content of that .try file?


Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred!

20 Sep 25 13:01, you wrote to me:

fido:/var/spool/ftn/outb.002$ cat 00dd0001.try
Cannot getaddrinfofido:/var/spool/ftn/outb.002$

What is the content of that .try file?

Bye, Wilfred.

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Javier


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Hi Javier,

On 2025-09-20 16:47:12, you wrote to me:

20 Sep 25 13:01, you wrote to me:

fido:/var/spool/ftn/outb.002$ cat 00dd0001.try
Cannot getaddrinfofido:/var/spool/ftn/outb.002$

Then there is your reason, it doesn't know how to contact that node, so it can't try.

What is the content of that .try file?

Please don't top post! ;-)


Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Wilfred!

20 Sep 25 22:38, you wrote to me:

But the node 2:221/1 is listed in the nodelist. What am I missing? How can I check if binkd can access and is processing the correct nodelist?

Host,221,Finland_(254),Ylojarvi,Tommi_Koivula,-Unpublished-,300,CM,IBN:f0.n221.z2.fidonet.fi,PING,TRACE,U,ENC
,1,MXO,Ylojarvi,Tommi_Koivula,-Unpublished-,300,CM,IBN:f1.n221.z2.fidonet.fi,PING,TRACE,U,ENC

----
ping f1.n221.z2.fidonet.fi
PING f1.n221.z2.fidonet.fi (135.181.90.166): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 135.181.90.166: icmp_seq=0 ttl=47 time=271.270 ms
64 bytes from 135.181.90.166: icmp_seq=1 ttl=47 time=270.490 ms

fido:/var/spool/ftn/filebase/nodelist$ ls -l
total 139
-rw-r--r-- 1 fido fido 32890 Sep 15 12:50 FSXNET.255
-rw-r--r-- 1 fido fido 5984 Sep 15 12:52 goldnode.gxa
-rw-r--r-- 1 fido fido 112 Sep 15 12:52 goldnode.gxl
-rw-r--r-- 1 fido fido 71808 Sep 15 12:52 goldnode.gxn
-rw-r--r-- 1 fido fido 157808 Sep 15 12:51 nodelist.255
----

Hi Javier,

On 2025-09-20 16:47:12, you wrote to me:

20 Sep 25 13:01, you wrote to me:

fido:/var/spool/ftn/outb.002$ cat 00dd0001.try
Cannot getaddrinfofido:/var/spool/ftn/outb.002$

Then there is your reason, it doesn't know how to contact that node,
so it can't try.

What is the content of that .try file?

Please don't top post! ;-)

Bye, Wilfred.

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Javier


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Hi Javier,

On 2025-09-20 19:42:12, you wrote to me:

But the node 2:221/1 is listed in the nodelist. What am I missing? How
can I check if binkd can access and is processing the correct
nodelist?

Binkd can't use the nodelist directly.

There is a perl script that can do it, configured like this:

#
# Perl hooks file (if built with Perl)
#
#perl-hooks ~/ftn/binkd/nodelist.pl

Or you can "compile" the nodelist to a format that binkd can use. I'm using this php script: http://ambrosia60.ddnss.org/53f8ee03/drv_q/div27/i-util/bnlphp14.zip

And include the compiled file into your binkd.config.

Or you can depend on the service by binkp.net which provides a dns service for node lookups, configured like this:

#
# Overrides root domain for DNS lookups, see 'node' below.
#
root-domain binkp.net


Bye, Wilfred.

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Hello Javier!

On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:48 +0200, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to you:

Or you can "compile" the nodelist to a format that binkd can use. I'm using this php script: http://ambrosia60.ddnss.org/53f8ee03/drv_q/div27/i-util/bnlphp14.zip

There is also this tool: https://github.com/shadowlmd/ndl2bnkd/
Supports multiple nodelists and pointlists.


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Hello Alexey!

22 Sep 25 08:45, you wrote to me:

Thank you, I will try to compile it for FreeBSD.

Hello Javier!

On Sun, 21 Sep 2025 12:48 +0200, Wilfred van Velzen wrote to you:

Or you can "compile" the nodelist to a format that binkd can use.
I'm using this php script:
http://ambrosia60.ddnss.org/53f8ee03/drv_q/div27/i-util/bnlphp14.
zip

There is also this tool: https://github.com/shadowlmd/ndl2bnkd/
Supports multiple nodelists and pointlists.

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Javier


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