FidoNews · Vol 32, No 17 · 27 Apr 2015
The F I D O N E W S Volume 32, Number 17 27 Apr 2015
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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
IPv6 Penetration in Fidonet .............................. 2
Dead wood and what to do with ............................ 4
3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 5
List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 5
4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 7
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 7
5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 8
FidoNet Software References .............................. 8
6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 13
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 13
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 14
7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 16
How to Submit an Article ................................. 16
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 18
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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I think as you grow older, your Christmas list gets smaller and the
things you really want for the holidays can't be bought.
-- Meg Meeker, MD
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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IPv6 Penetration in Fidonet
By Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555
IPv6 enthousiast
1 November 2011 is the day that the first documented binkp connect
was made between two Fidonet nodes over IPv6. The connect was between
the systems of Andre Grueneberg of 2:2411/525 and that of Benny
Pedersen of 2:230/0. That was three and a half years ago. Since then
IPv6 has slowly but irreversibly penetrated into Fidonet.
Let us look at the last three entries of the list of IPv6 capable
nodes that is published weekly in Fidonews.
27 4:903/26 Fernando Toledo T-?? SixXs
28 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline IO
29 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4
Number 27 on the list is Fernando Toledo. He was added last week and
that was another mile stone. Now all four remaining Fidonet zones
have IPv6 connectivity. Welcome to the Fidonet IPv6 club Fernando.
Number 28, the one from Alex Shuman is an interesting one. Alex uses
an IPv6 to IPv4 proxy to make his Radius answer to IPv6. In itself
this is not unique, others have used proxies as well, but what is
remarkable is that Alex found a way to let Windows 7 do the trick
all on its own. No external proxy needed. This is the trick:
netsh int portproxy add v6tov4 listenport=24554
connectaddress=10.10.5.2 connectport=24554 listenaddress=*
Note: The above is one line. As it is too long for Fidonews, it is
broken into two lines, but enter it in netsh as one line.
10.10.5.2 is the local address of the machine running the mailer.
One would think that "localhost" or 127.0.0.1 should do it as well,
but it does not. Welcome to the wonderfull world of netsh.
The same trick of course works for a Telnet the BBS if you have one:
netsh int portproxy add v6tov4 listenport=23
connectaddress=10.10.5.2 connectport=23 listenaddress=*
This is for incoming. Outgoing is a bit more complicated and less
practical. One needs to explicitly define every node one wants to
call over IPv6:
First one has to enter a port number in the local nodelist for the
node one wants to call, a different port number for each node,
- 24555 in this case - and then tell netsh what host name to use for
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that port:
netsh int portproxy add v4tov6 listenport=24555
connectaddress="fido.vlist.eu" connectport=24554
listenaddress=127.0.0.1
Again the above is one line, broken into three for Fidonews.
Thanks Alex for figuring this out.
And it does not only work on Win7, it works an good old XP as well.
netsh int portproxy add v6tov4 listenport=80
connectaddress=192.168.1.3 connectport=80 listenaddress=*
Note that one must explicitly open port 80 on the firewall to make
this work.
You are welcome to IPv6 connect to my binkp mailer at fido.vlist.eu
and to my web site at www.vlist.eu.
⌐ Michiel van der Vlist, all rights reserved.
Permission to publish in the FIDONEWS file scho and the FIDONEWS
discussion echo as originating from 2:2/2
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Dead wood and what to do with...
Ward Dossche - 2:292/854
Fidonet is shrinking, we all know that and there is a gazillion number
of reasons that can be identified for that.
It's a sad reality.
What's even more sad, is that several people have not even the
courtesy anymore to say they are leaving, they do not even close the
door with a loud bang -- they just unplug and that's it.
The result is "dead wood".
In Zone-2 dead wood has been in the process of being removed for a
long time. However, sometimes it isn't that easy.
For example, take the case of Region40 Israel. RC40 still polls here
like a clockwork once a week and picks-up whatever's there to be
picked up ... echo-traffic, netmails, nodediff, nodelist, Fidonews,
... This has been going on for years now with nothing coming back this
way.
Once in a while even a new, or maybe the same, segment gets delivered
(4 times in 2014, last in October) ... but all attempts at reaching
someone are fruitless.
For a while we had a live-person in the area who checked out all
entries and could not get a connect. PSTN or IP. Even today (Apr.20
2015) it was discovered that none of the IP-nodes are alive, I cannot
send anything direct to the RC because the listed system is not
responding. Of course, Janis will be able to connect, at least she
will claim she does.
The plan is to lift R40 Israel eventually from the nodelist because as
far as I can see there is no activity anymore. But before that
happens, I am addressing the sysop- community, and especially the
Russian-speaking community of R45, R46 and R50 if it has any knowledge
about active nodes in Israel because all of those sysop-names sound
"very Russian".
So if there's anyone who can assist in this matter, please get back to
me with relevant and pertinent information.
Thanks a million,
Ward Dossche
ZC2
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LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES
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List of Ipv6 nodes
By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555
Updated 23 April 2015
Node Nr. Sysop Type Provider Remark
1 2:280/464 Wilfred van Velzen Native Xs4All
2 2:280/5003 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All
3 2:5019/40 Konstantin Kuzov T-6in4 he.net PO4
4 2:240/1661 Markus Reschke Native DTAG
5 2:280/5555 Michiel van der Vlist T-AYIY SixXs
6 1:320/219 Andrew Leary Native Comcast
7 2:221/6 Tommi Koivula T-6in4 he.net INO4
8 2:5053/54 Denis Mikhlevich Native TTK-Volga
9 2:5034/16 Alexey Ignatov T-6in4 he.net
10 2:5030/257 Vova Uralsky T-6in4 he.net
11 1:154/10 Nicholas Boël T-6in6 he.net
12 1:154/701 Nicholas Boël T-6in4 he.net
13 2:203/0 Björn Felten T-6in4 SixXs
14 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All INO4
15 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6RD iiNet
16 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov Native ?
17 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native? ?
18 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
19 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6to4
20 2:301/812 Benoit Panizzon Native
21 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek Native T-Mobile
22 2:222/2 Kim Heino T-6in4 he.net
23 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh T-6in4 he.net
24 2:221/1 Tommi Koivula T-6in4 he.net
25 1:266/404 Bill McGarrity Native Comcast
26 1:135/371 Eric Renfro T-6RD ATT
27 4:903/26 Fernando Toledo T-?? SixXs
28 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline IO
29 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4
Tunnel type:
T-6in4 Static 6in4
T-AYIY Dynamic AYIYA
T-6to4 6to4
T-6RD 6RD
Remarks:
IO Incoming only (Node can not make outgoing IPv6 calls)
INO4 No IPv4 (Node can not accept incoming IPv4 calls)
PO4 Prefers Out on 4 (Node can make outgoing IPv6 calls,
but is configured to try IPv4 first)
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Notes:
To make an IPv6 connection to a node connected via 6to4 tunneling
one may have to force the mailer into IPv6 (-6 option in binkd's
node config). If the destination address is a 6to4 tunnel address
(2002::/16) Windows defaults to IPv4 if an IPv4 address is present.
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JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST
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The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project
This is a list of known JamNNTPd servers working. They are essentially
the modern version of Bulletin Board Systems.
You connect to them using the newsreader of your choice and you
don't need any other software installed on your computer -- regardless
of operating system -- but that favourite mail client of yours.
Even smart phones can handle this, giving you the opportunity to get
your daily doses of fidonet on the bus, tram or train on the way to
your job, school or whatever.
Updated 2015-03-22
URL news://felten.yi.org
Join http://felten.yi.org/join.html
NETMAIL Yes, 2:203/2
URL news://the-estar.com:1119
Join http://www.easternstar.info
NETMAIL Yes, 1:123/789
URL news://quinnspost.nodelist.net:60119
Join mailto:eskimo261@bigfoot.com
Join Info in group +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 3:640/384
URL news://rbb.bbs.fi
Join Info in group +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 2:221/361
URL news://fidonews.mine.nu
Join http://fidonews.mine.nu
NETMAIL Yes, 2:221/6
URL news://news.wpusa.dynip.com
Join Info in group +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 1:3634/12
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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
.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.
|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
D'Bridge |MTCPE|http://www.net229.org/dbridge.htm 1:1/130
Nick Andre |I | v3.99 on Feb 19 2014
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
Mystic BBS |MTBCE|http://www.mysticbbs.com
|I | v1.10 A31 on Apr 13th 2013
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://sourceforge.net/projects/fmail/
| | 1.66.0.33.gpl (2013-10-17)
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
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
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
| | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net
| | v3.10L Beta
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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
CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de (German Only)
| | pm@crosspoint.de v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999
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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.
RNtrack |U |http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftrack-as
| |2:5080/102
| |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
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| | 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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Please send corrections & additions to: Fidonews Editor
Emeritus: Robert Couture, Ben Ritchey, Todd Cochrane,
Frank Vest, Peter Popovich
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Last week's statistics from the Fidoweb
By EchoTime, 2:203/0
(Some nets may have lost their last
digit for technical reasons)
pkt (toss-toss) msg (write-toss)
nodes mean dev no mean dev no
154/* 4.1m 6.2m 417 3.3h 17.3h 417
201/* 1.3m 0.4m 3 29.2h 7.9h 3
221/* 0.4m 3.8m 508 7.7h 10.5h 508
249/* 4.2m 10.5m 206 3.0h 4.8h 206
266/* 20.1m 12.5m 430 2.8h 12.7h 431
280/* 0.8m 3.6m 309 4.6h 8.3h 309
292/* 4.7m 1.6m 11 3.2h 5.5h 3
320/* 2.9m 4.3m 215 5.9h 24.2h 216
423/* 0.9m 0.4m 4 0.9h 0.6h 4
502/* 7.0m 19.9m 17 0.2h 0.0h 17
640/* 1.1m 1.6m 169 11.4h 8.9h 169
Sigma 5.5m 10.4m 2289 5.2h 13.8h 2283
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.114
size 261.6kb
date 2015-04-24
The nodelist has 1769 nodes in it
and a total of 2509 non-comment entries
including 4 zones
29 regions
201 hosts
159 hubs
admin overhead 393 ( 22.22 %)
and 189 private nodes
68 nodes down
90 nodes on hold
off line overhead 347 ( 19.62 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 138 ( 7.80 %)
9600 = 894 ( 50.54 %)
(HST = 13 or 1.45 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 1 or 0.11 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.11 %)
(V32 = 451 or 50.45 %)
(V32B = 42 or 4.70 %)
(V34 = 618 or 69.13 %)
(V42 = 511 or 57.16 %)
(V42B = 45 or 5.03 %)
2400 = 4 ( 0.23 %)
1200 = 2 ( 0.11 %)
300 = 731 ( 41.32 %)
ISDN = 106 ( 5.99 %)
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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems
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IBN Binkp 827 ( 46.75 %)
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IFC Raw ifcico 118 ( 6.67 %)
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IFT FTP 57 ( 3.22 %)
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ITN Telnet 138 ( 7.80 %)
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IVM Vmodem 13 ( 0.73 %)
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IP Other 6 ( 0.34 %)
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INO4 IPv6 only 3 ( 0.17 %)
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CrashMail capable = 1037 ( 58.62 %)
MailOnly nodes = 825 ( 46.64 %)
Listed-only nodes = 107 ( 6.05 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/2]
[ NetStats 3.8 2014-11-23]
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