The F I D O N E W S Volume 28, Number 04 24 Jan 2011 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |The newsletter of the | | | | | FidoNet community. | | Netmail attach to (POTS): | | | | | Editor @ 2:2/2 (+46-31-960447) | | | ____________| | | | | / __ | Netmail attach to (BinkP): | | | / / \ | Editor @ 2:203/0 | | | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | | | \_______\(_| /_) | Email attach to: | | _ @/_ \ _ | bfelten @ telia dot com | | | | \ \\ | | | | (*) | \ ))| | | |__U__| / \// | Editor: Bj”rn Felten | | ______ _//|| _\ / | | | / Fido \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. | | (________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ 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 FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 1 24 Jan 2011 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 2 24 Jan 2011 ================================================================= GENERAL ARTICLES ================================================================= 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. FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 3 24 Jan 2011 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. FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 4 24 Jan 2011 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 FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 5 24 Jan 2011 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 6 24 Jan 2011 ================================================================= FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= -=:{ 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 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org | | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.10 FMail |T |http://fmail.nl.eu.org FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 7 24 Jan 2011 | | 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. +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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 FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 8 24 Jan 2011 | | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net | | v3.10L Beta Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net | | support@telegard.net | | v3.09g2 SP4 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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 FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 9 24 Jan 2011 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. +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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. FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 10 24 Jan 2011 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ National BBS List |? | http://www.usbbs.org Hispanic FIDO/BBS's |? | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/ (in Spanish only) | | (Extensive software & BBS Listings) +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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) *=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=* Please send corrections & additions to: Fidonews Editor Emeritus: Robert Couture, Ben Ritchey, Todd Cochrane, Frank Vest, Peter Popovich ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 11 24 Jan 2011 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= 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 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 876 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 12 24 Jan 2011 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 3 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 1 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 0 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 16 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 99 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 981 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 980 -------------------------------------- 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] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-04 Page 13 24 Jan 2011 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= How to Submit an Article If you wish to submit an article for inclusion in the Fidonews, here are some guidelines, if you send it as an attached file; the preferred method if you want reasonable control over how the published article will appear in the Fidonews: a) Plain ASCII text. 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