Hi everyone,

For those of you running Synchronet / SBBS-Echo and with feeds with my system, a very friendly reminder to please double-check your setups to ensure that
any packets destined for my system are in fact destined for my system. Please take a moment to check your logs if in doubt.

There are at least three systems I'm seeing connecting here which are host-routing Echomail packets destined for other systems. I will respond to these by Netmail. My understanding is that its a simple typo or fix in one's configuration that causes this to happen.

Although I wrote code in my mailer to trap these misaddressed packets before they route elsewhere, its beginning to slam my inbound almost hourly here.

Thanks guys,

Nick

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Re: Misrouted Synchronet packets
By: Atreyu to All on Fri Dec 06 2024 07:57 pm

For those of you running Synchronet / SBBS-Echo and with feeds with my system, a very friendly reminder to please double-check your setups to ensure that
any packets destined for my system are in fact destined for my system. Please take a moment to check your logs if in doubt.

I'm curous why/how this would be a Synchronet / SBBSecho specific problem. Do you have any details?
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On 07 Dec 24 11:40:13, Rob Swindell said the following to Atreyu:

I'm curous why/how this would be a Synchronet / SBBSecho specific problem. you have any details?

Yes. The systems in question are sending Echomail packets that are not destined for my system. When the Sysop fixes their SBBSecho config, the problem is resolved.

Nick

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Re: Re: Misrouted Synchronet packets
By: Atreyu to Rob Swindell on Sat Dec 07 2024 02:45 pm

On 07 Dec 24 11:40:13, Rob Swindell said the following to Atreyu:

I'm curous why/how this would be a Synchronet / SBBSecho specific problem. you have any details?

Yes. The systems in question are sending Echomail packets that are not destined for my system. When the Sysop fixes their SBBSecho config, the problem is resolved.

Do you have any details? What about their SBBSecho config needed fixing exactly?
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On 07 Dec 24 14:14:15, Rob Swindell said the following to Atreyu:

Yes. The systems in question are sending Echomail packets that are not destined for my system. When the Sysop fixes their SBBSecho config, the problem is resolved.

Do you have any details? What about their SBBSecho config needed fixing exactly?

No details but seemed to be a quick fix, would need to reach out to them directly... we can discuss via netmail

Nick

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