Text 270, 118 rader
Skriven 2005-06-11 13:23:06 av Michiel Broek (2:280/2802)
    Kommentar till text 264 av Russell Tiedt (5:7105/1)
Ärende: Re: BinkD and MBSE BBS
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Hi Russell,

Russell Tiedt wrote to Michiel Broek:
RT> Hello Michiel.
RT> 
RT> 09 Jun 05 20:06, you wrote to me:
RT> 
RT>  RT>  MB>> Just run binkd as mbse too. Is there any need to use it as
RT>  RT>  MB>> another user?
RT>  RT>>
RT>  RT>> No, just that the native Debian version I have installed, installs
RT>  RT>> and runs as user ftn and group ftn. Figure that un-installing it,
RT>  RT>> and placing a binary
RT> 
RT>  RT>> that I have compiled myself in /opt/mbse/bin and fiddling with
RT>  RT>> inetd to run it from there, will best serve my system.
RT> 
RT>  MB> Actually you don't need binkd at all, but that's your choice. I think
RT>  MB> you best compile and install binkd yourself, put the binary in
RT>  MB> /opt/mbse/bin and run it from there. You need to change one setting 
RT> in
RT>  MB> mbsetup, that is "allow zero byte lockfiles". If I remember, binkd
RT>  MB> writes zero bytes .bsy files in the outbound while mbcico puts the
RT>  MB> owner pid in these lockfiles. Otherwise mbcico will trash the
RT>  MB> lockfiles made by binkd because they look like orphaned lockfiles.
RT> 
RT> MBSE has a pretty good implementation of BinkP, and mostly it works very 
RT> well,
RT> I really like the compression between my system and a Radius system I 
RT> connect
RT> to daily, but I have of late been experiencing problems, and I have come 
RT> to
RT> the conclusion that the implementation of BinkP in MBSE is not quiet as 
RT> robust
RT> as that in BinkD.

mbse doesn't do compression with Radius, only with the latest Argus and
Taurus mailers. What pobles do you have, timeouts?

RT> What happens on occasion is that I manage to connect to a feed, but file 
RT> downloads do not complete ie. while exchanging mail, not the 20mbyte file 
RT> problem we discussed awhile back, but if I use BinkD to connect to the 
RT> problem
RT> feed, it manages to download the files or exchange mail, it just seems to 
RT> be a
RT> little more persistent and possibly it does not time out as fast/soon as 
RT> MBSE.

Timeouts it is. I have seen that these Radius mailers can be really slow
sometimes. Still, mbse uses a timeout of 3 minutes per frame or other state
change.

RT> The quality of my internet connection, leaves a great deal to be desired 
RT> on
RT> occasion. For the last 2 days, I have been unable to connect to the 2 
RT> systems
RT> I poll in Europe, my guess is DNS is temporally right royally screwed, 
RT> last
RT> week, I could not poll Bob Seaborn or Janice Kracht in the USA for a 24 
RT> hour
RT> period.

No problems here.

RT> In these circumstances niether MBCICO nor BinkD can connect to the system 
RT> affected. This also on occasion happens with my connection to Barry 
RT> Blackford
RT> in Zone3, but there are also occasions when his system is down, but this 
RT> happens too often when I know the systems on the other side up and 
RT> fuctioning.
RT> 
RT> Internet conditions are not very good here most of the time, but on odd 
RT> occsions it flies ...

They are a lot better here. Last connect with Z3 I had the files transfered
over 50 Kbps.

RT>  MB> Then you may also need to find out a way that only one of these
RT>  MB> mailers will make the calls.
RT> 
RT> Well, only problems I have had, is when BinkD exits irregularly, and 
RT> leaves an
RT> *.ilo file behind, then MBCICO repeatedly poll the node BinkD was busy 
RT> with
RT> before it was stopped, usually because I pressed CTRL-C to exit from 
RT> BinkD.

I don't think binkd knows what a .ilo file is.

RT> I start all polls here manually because I have yet to figure out how to 
RT> stop
RT> and start my internet connection which is handled by my IP-COP 
RT> firewall/internet server/gateway box from a script on my BBS system, over 
RT> the
RT> network. :-((

There are good tools to do that. I have used it here. Everything started
from cron, and when mbcico was ready sending and polling it took the
connection down.

RT>  MB> ... GURU: One who knows more jargon than you.
RT> 
RT> <grin>

Yeah.




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