FidoNews · Vol 28, No 4 · 24 Jan 2011
The F I D O N E W S Volume 28, Number 04 24 Jan 2011
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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
FidoNet and IPv4 depletion ............................... 2
3. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 6
FidoNet Software References .............................. 6
4. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 11
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 11
5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 13
How to Submit an Article ................................. 13
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 15
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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The only security of all is in a free press. The force of public
opinion cannot be resisted when permitted to be freely expressed. The
agitation it produces must be submitted to. It is necessary, to keep
the waters pure.
-- Thomas Jefferson, 1823
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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FidoNet and IPv4 depletion
By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555
In the morning of Last Friday, januari 21st, there were 7 /8 blocks of
IPv4 addresses left in the central global pool administered by IANA.
Later that day, APNIC, the Asian Pacific regional internet registry
requested and was granted another two /8 blocks. That left five /8
blocks, which triggered the prearranged policy agreed on for that
event. Each of the five RIRs (Regional InterNet Registries) got one
last block and IANA's barrel was empty.
... Or so almost every IPv4 depletion watcher thought would happen. It
was expected that APINC would follow what by now has become more or
less standard procedure and request two more blocks when her own pool
dropped below two free /8 blocks and that happened last Tuesday. But
now the APNIC pool is down to 1.66 free blocks and nothing is
happening. No one knows the reason for the delay. My guess - which is
as good as anyone else's - is that they want to to raise some media
attention and they need a bit of time for preparations. There is no
doubt it will happen very soon now. it may already have happened when
your read this.
So the IANA pool has run dry or will be in a few days. This does not
mean all the IPv4 address space is used up, but it does mark an
important event. Everyone who has done nothing yet to implement IPv6,
the successor of the IPv4 protocol, has reason to engage in a mild
panic.
How does it affect FidoNet? It is hard to say. It will probably be a
while before the first sysop encounters a problem. It all depends on
what the ISP's will do. The InterNet backbone is ready for IPv6, but
many ISPs around the world have been playing the chicken and egg game.
Customers that have a public routable IPv4 address may be allowed to
keep it. OTOH, there may be a panic when ISP's have to start saying
"no" to new customers asking for IPv4 addresses. They may put their
customers behind NATs and give them addresses in the private range
like 10.0.x.y, unless they pay extra and that may not even apply to
new customers but to existing customers as well. The "extra" may be so
much that it is unaffordable for most individuals. So the IPv4
exhaustion may not only affect new sysops, but it may affect existing
sysops as well.
To fully participate in FidoNet one has to run a server. A server can
be run behind a NAT, /if/ on has access to the router's port
forwarding table. No problem if it is your own router, but very
problematic if the router is under control of your ISP. From behind an
ISP's NAT one can run client software, but no servers. The situation
is the same as someone who is on a company's private branch exchange
with no direct dial in. One can usualy make outgoing calls, but for
incoming calls, one needs the assistance of the operator. A FidoNet
system in that position has the reacheability of a point. Obviously
FidoNet can not function if everyone can only make outgoing calls.
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So what should we do? I think in the end there is no alternative but
to go IPv6. If we do not, a large number of FidoNet IP systems will be
unable to accept incoming calls via IP and that will seriously degrade
the performance of the network. Here are some steps that we need to go
through. Not necessarily in that order:
o Someone will have to write an IPv6 capable IP mailer.
This may be the easy part. Rumour has it that some are already looking
into adding Iv6 capability to Binkd. I say this is the easy part,
because we only need ONE able and willing programmer to do it.
o We must upgrade our systems to have IPv6 capability.
In the long run everyone will have to do that, but I think that - like
we did with modems, we should once again be the pioneers. Why? Because
we can! Most modern OS's support IPv6 out of the box. But there are a
lot of legacy systems around in FidoNet. If you still run a DOS
system, you can forget it. There is no IPv6 support for DOS or any of
its clones and derivatives and it is extremely unlikely that there
ever will be. Well, this may be a good time to finally dump DOS
anyway. If you run WIN95, WIN98, WINME or WIN2000, you may forget it
too. WIN9X and WINME are in the same postion as DOS. No support for
IPv6 and it will stay that way. For WIN2K there is a hotfix, but it is
highly experimental and I would not recommend it. If you have one of
those, you had better upgrade. WIN XP may be a good choice for a
FidoNet system. Legal copies can be had for under EUR 20 and XP is a
proven stable platform for a FidoNet system. In XP, IPv6 is not
enabled by default, but installing it, is very s imple, everyone
capable of setting up a FidoNet system - which is not all that easy -
should have no problem with turning on IPv6 in XP. There are a few
things missing in XPs implementation of IPv6, but that is not really a
problem for use in a FidoNet system. For the Linux adepts: most *nix
implementations support IPv6 out of the box and for some, the sysop
needs to do a little bit of work. OS/2? Forget it. It is abandonware
and so is its successor, EcomStation by now. Mac OS has good support
for IPv6, but I do not know any details.
o We have to obtain globally routable IPv6 addresses for our systems..
Having your local machines IPv6 enabled gives you the ability to let
them communicate with each other on your LAN. They will all get a so
called link local adres by stateless autoconfiguration. Run
"ipconfig" from the command line and you will see such an address for
each interface. They are recognisable by their prefix that starts with
fe80. Link local addresses never pass a router, so they can not be
used for communication with the global internet. For that each machine
needs a globally unique unicast address. To obtain such an address,
you need a provider that gives you a subnet. If your ISP provides
native IPv6 you are fine. If you have an IPv6 capable modem/router all
you have to do is, plug it in and each machine on your LAN will get a
globally routable IPv6 address out of you assigned subnet. Those
addresses start with '2' or '3' as the first digit. My present IPv6
address is 2001:7b8:2ff:3a9::2. Feel free to ping6 it if you are IPv6
capable. Or ping6 test6.vlist,eu.
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Unfortunately. Very few ISPs offer native IPv6 yet. Mine does not and
they do not seem to be in a hurry. The alternative is a tunnel.
Tunneling is encapsulating IPv6 packets in IPv4 packets by adding an
IPv4 header. This is done by the tunnel software. It is a way to
connect "Iv6 islands" over an IPv4 connection. Most OS's provide some
automatic tunneling mechanism such as 6to4 or Teredo. With those you
have little control over the assigned address. More suitable when you
want to run servers is to make use of a tunnel broker. There are
several who offer such a service for free, al you need to do is
register and create an account. SixXs and Hurricane Electric come to
mind. HE will give you a tunnel and a /48 subnet without questions.
But they are a commercial organisation, which means that at some time
in the future they may charge for the service. SixXs is an entirely
volunteer organisation run by a couple of what could be described as
.. eh .. nerds. They use some odd credit system. You get "points" for
keeping your tunnel alive and lose points for doing stupid things. It
sounds a bit odd, but keep in mind that they are volunteers doing it
all for the good cause. SixXs originated in The Netherlands and they
know about Fido. If you mention in your application that you are a
FidoNet sysop, you may get some bonus points, like I got.
If you have a tunnel, there are two ways to run it. You can get an
IPv6 capable router that can act as your tunnel end point. This is a
"clean" solution, but also a bit expensive as home routers that can do
that are still scarse and in the EUR 150+ range. If you have a
computer running 24/7 anyway - as any fidonet syop has - you may as
well configure that as an IPv6 router and keep using your IPv4 only
router for the time being. Surely when IPv6 deployment increases,
prices of IPv6 capable home routers will drop and the choise will
increase. Configuring a computer to act as a tunnel end point and
router for a subnet is well documented in the howtos and FAQs of the
tunnel brokers. It is not trivial, but it is very doable for someone
who has gone through the learning curve of configuring a FidoNet
system.
o Let's get those ISP's out of their chair.
Let them get their arses moving in implementing IPv6. If they tell
you, they still have enough IPv6 addresses to keep their customers
happy for years - as does mine - tell them it will do no good when
soon parts of the InterNet in other parts of the world will be IPv6
only. If they make moves to put you behind a NAT, tell them in no
uncertain terms that you will not accept being put behind a NAT
without them offering IPv6 to you. If they tell you no one is asking
for IPv6, tell them "here is one, expect more to come". Don't be shy,
be a pest. An ISP that has done nothing yet towards IPv6 deserves it.
o What else is there to do?
When you have gained some experience with IPv6 upgrading your own
systems, you can start helping others. Sooner or later everyone who
uses the InterNet will have to add IPv6 capability to his system. If
the ISPs do their jobs, this may go without much pain for most, but I
fear the reality will be a bit different. The average user will run
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into all kind of problems during the transition and this is where we
can come in to help our family, friends and neighbours. Not only will
it help them, it will also get you even more experience. In addition
to that being fun, it looks good on your CV as well.
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FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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-=:{ FidoNet Software Reference }:=-
Type: M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal
P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility ?=Info
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|Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node|
`- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -'
Argus |MI |http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ 2:469/84
| | argus@ritlabs.com Tel: 373-2-246889
| | v3.210 on Mar 20th 2001
BinkleyTerm XE |M |http://btxe.sourceforge.net 1:1/102
| | v2.60XE/Gamma-6 on Nov 11th 1998
BinkD |MI |http://binkd.grumbler.org/ 2:463/69
| | v0.9.10 on Oct 2nd 2008
FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.fido-deluxe.de.vu 2:2432/280
Michael Haase | | m.haase@gmx.net
| | v2.4 on Sep 26th 2003
FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MTPC |http://www.defsol.se 2:201/330
Definite Solutions | | sales@defsol.se 1:1/101
| | v2.26SW & v2.33ml FD, v1.15 APX
Husky Project |MTPUI|http://sf.net/projects/husky/
| | v1.4 RC5 on Apr 24th 2006
Radius |MI |http://radius.pp.ru 2:5012/38
(based on Argus) | | fido5012@zaural.net Tel: 7-3522-469463
| | Last Release: v4.010 on Jan 3nd 2005
Taurus |MI |http://taurus.rinet.ru (Russian) 2:461/70
| |http://www.fidotel.com/taurus (English)
(based on Radius) | | E-mail: taurus@rinet.ru
| | v5.000 alpha on Oct 11th 2004
Tmail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru v2608
| | Website is in Russian only
WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com
Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com
Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204
Software, Inc. | | AUP 451.1 on April 26th 2004
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Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org
| | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.10
FMail |T |http://fmail.nl.eu.org
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| | support@fmail.nl.eu.org v1.60
JetMail: JetSys |TU |http://www.jetsys.de js@jetsys.de
(ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on Jan 1st 2000
Squish |T |http://maximus.sourceforge.net/
| | Lanuis site redirects to above
| | Squish is part of Maximus.
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BBBS |BI |http://www.bbbs.net b@bbbs.net
| | v4.00MP on Oct 25th 1999 2:22/222
ELEBBS: The Elevator |B |http://www.elebbs.com
Software Production | | elebbs@elebbs.com
| | v0.10.RC1 on Jun 9th 2002
Ezycom BBS |BT |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com
| | ezycom@amnet.net.au or
| | ezycom_hq@ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682
| | v2.15g2 on 16 Nov 2009
Hermes II Project |B |http://www.hermesii.org
| | info@HermesII.org v3.5.9 Beta Final
Maximus BBS |B |http://maximus.sourceforge.net/
| | v3.03
| |Archives back online at:
| |http://maximus.outpostbbs.net/
MBSE BBS: |BI |http://mbse.sourceforge.net 2:280/2802
Michiel Broek | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net
| | v0.60.0 on June 5th 2004
Mystic BBS |B |http://www.mysticbbs.com
| | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001
Nexus BBS |B |http://www.nexusbbs.net
| | groberts@nexusbbs.net
| | v0.99.41-Beta on Oct 16th 2002
| | [Note: No Longer under active
| | development.]
Proboard BBS |B |http://www.proboard.be
| | v2.17 on Jun 9th 2002
RemoteAccess BBS: |B |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120
Bruce Morse | | bfmorse@rapro.com
| | v2.62.2SW
Spitfire BBS: Buffalo|B |http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/
Creek Software | | MDWoltz@aol.com 1:1/150
| | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999
Synchronet BBS |BT |http://www.synchro.net
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| | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net
| | v3.10L Beta
Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net
| | support@telegard.net
| | v3.09g2 SP4
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Atlantis Software |D |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/
| | Last Update: August 2004
Cheepware |DU |http://outpostbbs.net
Sean Dennis | | sean@outpostbbs.net 1:18/200
DDS (Doorware |D |http://www.doorgames.org 1:2404/201
Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org
Ruth Argust | |
DoorMUD |D |http://doormud.com
| | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002
| | Website is down after
| | past the splash page.
Jibben Software |D |http://www.jibbensoftware.com
| | scott@jibben.com
| | 1995-99 Release dates
John Dailey Software |D |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com
| | support@johndaileysoftware.com
Shining Star |D |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/
| | nannette@shiningstar.net
Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com
Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com
| | Tel: (404) 256-9518
The Brainex System |D |http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/
| | stanley@brainex.com 1994-99 Releases
Trade Wars |D |http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/
| | jpritch@eisonline.com
| | v3.09 (DOS-32) in 2002
Vagabond Software: |D |http://www.vbsoft.org 1:124/7013
Bryan Turner | | vagabond@vbsoft.org
| | last update: Jul 17th 2002
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APoint |PI |http://www.apoint-mail.de 2:2426/1210.13
| |http://www.apoint-mail.de/indexe.htm
| | (English Version)
| | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
| | v1.25
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CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de (German Only)
| | pm@crosspoint.de v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999
FreeXP |P |http://www.freexp.de 2:2433/460
| | support@freexp.de
| | v3.40 RC3 Aug 31st 2003 (Snapshot)
OpenXP/32 |PI |http://www.openxp.com 2:248/2004
| | (Site is in German Only)
| | mk@openxp.de v3.8.15 Beta Feb 10th 2004
| | Download Page comes back 404 not found.
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GoldEd+ |E |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/
| | 2:5080/102
| | stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
| | v1.1.5 Snapshot on Feb 28th 2003
SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de
| | v1.15 on Dec 15th 1999
TimEd |E |http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet
| | mail@ozzmosis.com /timed
| | v1.11.a5 in March 2003 3:633/267
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FidoIP |MTPEIU|http://sourceforge.net/projects/fidoip
| | Maxim Sokolsky 2:5020/828.777
| | v.0.5_1 on Jan 11 2010
GiGo |UI |http://www.gigo.com
| | v0109 on Jan 9th 1997
Ifmail |UI |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net
| | crosser@average.org 2:5020/230
| | Ifmail is a FTN <-> E-Mail/News Gateway
| | Program.
Internet Rex: |UI |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/
Charles Cruden | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806
(Khan Software) | | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001
MakeNL |U | http://hub2000.darktech.org/makenl
| | fidonet.hub2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
| | Fido: 1:229/2000
| | FidoNet Nodelist Processor
Meltdown-BBS |UI |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/
| | meltdown-bbs.project.petkan
| | @spamgourmet.com
| | Fido: 2:350/5
| | Meltdown-BBS is an FTN <->
| | Web/PHP/MySQL BBS forum system.
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RNtrack |U |http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftrack-as
| |2:5080/102
| |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
| | v1.1.4 Snapshot on Oct 09 2009
TransNet |UI |http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/
| | transnet@ressl.com.ar
| | v2.11 on Jul 18th 1998
TransX: Multiboard |UI |http://www.start.ca/software/multiboard
Communications, Inc.| | Unsure about support now but Free Keys
| | are now available. Donations accepted.
| | v3.5 (Note: KeyGen is a Windows Program)
Turquoise SuperStat |U |http://www.softwolves.pp.se/sw/
| | software/turquoise
| | peter@softwolves.pp.se
| | Version: 3.0 on 2008-01-21
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National BBS List |? | http://www.usbbs.org
Hispanic FIDO/BBS's |? | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/
(in Spanish only) | | (Extensive software & BBS Listings)
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File Archives:
http://archives.thebbs.org http://www.filegate.net
http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org http://www.juge.com
http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/ http://garbo.uwasa.fi
http://www.simtel.net http://wuarchive.wustl.edu
http://www.bbsfiles.com http://hobbes.nmsu.edu
Note: most also provide FTP access
(use ftp:// instead of http:// above)
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Emeritus: Robert Couture, Ben Ritchey, Todd Cochrane,
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.021
size 403.5kb
date 2011-01-21
The nodelist has 2956 nodes in it
and a total of 4218 non-comment entries
including 5 zones
37 regions
250 hosts
236 hubs
admin overhead 528 ( 17.86 %)
and 357 private nodes
203 nodes down
174 nodes on hold
off line overhead 734 ( 24.83 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 249 ( 8.42 %)
9600 = 1961 ( 66.34 %)
(HST = 31 or 1.58 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 1 or 0.05 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.05 %)
(V32 = 952 or 48.55 %)
(V32B = 77 or 3.93 %)
(V34 = 1345 or 68.59 %)
(V42 = 1114 or 56.81 %)
(V42B = 81 or 4.13 %)
2400 = 17 ( 0.58 %)
1200 = 2 ( 0.07 %)
300 = 727 ( 24.59 %)
ISDN = 235 ( 7.95 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 876
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
Xenia
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 3
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 1
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XP Seadog 0
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XR Opus 1.03 16
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XW Fido >12M 99
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 981
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 980
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CrashMail capable = 1406 ( 47.56 %)
MailOnly nodes = 1511 ( 51.12 %)
Listed-only nodes = 234 ( 7.92 %)
Other = -195 ( -6.60 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]
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