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FidoNews · Vol 28, No 32 · 08 Aug 2011

     The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 28, Number 32             08 Aug 2011 
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                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. EDITORIAL  ................................................  2
        The 500th issue  ..........................................  2
     3. GENERAL ARTICLES  .........................................  3
        A SECOND LIFE FOR THE LINKSYS Part 2  .....................  3
     4. EDITOR'S CORNER  ..........................................  5
        The 500th issue -- by numbers  ............................  5
     5. LEE'S PUZZLE CORNER - LEE LAFOSO  .........................  7
        Word Search Puzzle  .......................................  7
     6. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ......................  9
        FidoNet Software References  ..............................  9
     7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 14
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 14
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 16
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                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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     Because we humans are big and clever enough to produce and utilize
     antibiotics and disinfectants, it is easy to convince ourselves that
     we have banished bacteria to the fringes of existence.

     Don't you believe it. Bacteria may not build cities or have
     interesting social lives, but they will be here when the Sun explodes.
     This is their planet, and we are on it only because they allow us to
     be.

                      -- Bill Bryson

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                                 EDITORIAL
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                  The 500th issue

     Well, well, wadday know? This is Fidonews issue number 500 from this
     editor. No other editor has come even close to that in all of
     Fidonews's existence.

     I must admit it's been a turbulent time. The first four or five years
     everything went smothly. We had lot's of people making contributions.

     But unlike all the previous editors, who could pick and choose from a
     plethoria of contributions, and who could refuse an article on
     technical grounds for just a misplaced comma, I had to handle mostly
     unformatted contributions sent to me via email or netmail -- not in a
     properly formatted file attach.

     Alas, I didn't mind. I thought it was a major challange to make all
     contributions properly formatted so that our readers could enjoy their
     effort.

     On avarage I've probably spent two hours on every single one of those
     500 issues of the Fidonews that I have edited.

     Now, with this 500th edition, I've looked at the log file here, trying
     to get a grip of how many articles that's actually been published in
     the Fidonews in those 500 issues. And the result, not including this
     500th issue, you will find in another column here.



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                             GENERAL ARTICLES
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                        A SECOND LIFE FOR THE LINKSYS Part 2
                        By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555


     Last week I described how to set up a 6in4 tunnel on the Linksys
     WRT54GL. This article describes how to provide IPv6 connectivity to
     your machines connected to the LAN.

     First you have to enable IPv6 on your systems if it isn't already. Go
     to the command line and type "Ipconfig" for Windows or "ifconfig" for
     *nix. If you see an address that starts with fe80:: then IPv6 is ena-
     bled. That address is a so called link local address.

     Windows XP SP2/3 is IPv6 capable, but it is not enabled by default.
     From an account with administrator rights type "IPV6 INSTALL" on the
     command line to enable it.

     IPv6 has a mechanism called "router advertisements". A router
     announces itself on the local link by regularly sending out router
     advertisements to all nodes on the local link. A node that needs
     router information can also send out a router sollicitaion message to
     have all routers on the link send out a router advertisement message
     instead of waiting for the next broadcast.

     The router adverisement contains, among other thing, the subnet prefix
     to be used by the nodes on the local link. There is a mechanism called
     "prefix delegation" to let a router be assigned a subnet from its
     uplink, but this mechanism is not supported by the he.net and sixxs
     tunnels and AFAIK, openwrt does not support it either, so the subnet
     has to be configured manually. The he.net tunnels come with a /64
     subnet by default, sixxs gives you a /48 on request. Note that the
     subnet address and the tunnel address are not the same. The tunnel
     address also uses a full /64, but that can not be used a a subnet.

     Use cut and paste for the addresses if you can. a typo is easily made
     you will have a hard time finding the error if it does not work.

     Go to the file /etc/config/network and find the following section:

     [code]

     #### LAN configuration
     config interface lan
             option type     bridge
             option ifname   "eth0.0"
             option proto    static
             option ipaddr   192.168.1.1
             option netmask  255.255.255.0
     [/code]

     Add the following lines:

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     [code]

     # add the subnet prefix to the LAN interface
             option ip6addr  2001:470:1f15:1117::1/64
     [code]

     Do not ommit the /64, it won't work without it. For the address use
     the one that the tunnel broker gave you as the subnet prefix. If you
     have a /48 use any /64 within the /48 range.

     We also need to tell the firewall to forward packets from the LAN to
     the tunnel. Add the following section to /etc/config/firewall

     [code]

     # Forwarding van lan naar de he.net tunnel

     config  forwarding
             option  src     lan
             option  dst     henet
     [/code]


     That completes the basic setup to have all your machines on the LAN
     access the IPv6 internet. They should all get a at least one global
     IPv6 address and you should be able to make outgoing IPv6 connections.

     Surf to http://www.kame.net. If you see the turtke dance, you have
     IPv6. Surf to http://www.test-ipv6.com to see more details about your
     IPv6 connection. That site BTW, is run by a former FideNet sysop:
     Jason Fesler, the author of GIGO.

     Other useful test sites are ipv6-test.com and ipv6-speedtest.net.


     This completes the setup for client use. The OpenWrt firewall - as any
     decent firewall should - blocks all unsolicited incoming packets by
     default. If you wish to run IPv6 capable servers on any of your
     systems, you have to open the required ports and enable IPv6 forwar-
     ding. I have not experimented with that yet. You can find the infor-
     mation on the the official openwrt site, where you can find almost all
     of the information on how to play with your new toy.
     http://openwrt.org

     Enjoy.


     ╕ 2011, 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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                              EDITOR'S CORNER
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                  The 500th issue -- by numbers

     Here's the statistics for the 499 issues I've published prior to this.

     There has been a total of 3161 articles in 51 different columns.


      499 The Front Page
      499 Fidonews Information
      478 Special Interest
      275 Food For Thought
      221 Robert Couture'S Fidonet Software Listing
      177 Fidonet By Internet
      151 General Articles
      134 Fidonews'S Fidonet Software Listing
      109 Ben Ritchey'S Fidonet Software Listing
       81 Clean Humour & Jokes
       66 Editorial
       61 Inside
       48 Fidonet'S International Kitchen
       48 Daryl Stout'S Column
       39 Ol'Wdb'S Column - Warren Bonner
       32 Todd Cochrane'S Fidonet Software Listing
       25 Frank'S Column - Frank Vest
       15 Rebuttals To Previous Articles
       14 Fidonet Notices
       14 Clean Humor & Jokes
       14 Best Of Fidonet
       12 In The Snooze Ten Years Ago
       12 Fidonet Software Reviews
       12 Fidonet Regional News
       11 Fidonet Current Events
       10 Comix In Ascii
        9 Humour In A Fido Vein
        9 Guest Editorial
        9 Daryl Stout'S Telnet Bbs Guide
        7 Poet'S Corner
        7 Fidonet Classified Ads
        6 Letters To The Editor
        5 Fidonet Web Page Reviews
        5 Catcalls From The Cheap Seats
        4 Getting Fidonet Technical
        4 Ftsc Information
        4 From The *Cs
        4 Fidonet Net News
        4 Editor'S Corner
        4 Andy'S Anecdotes
        3 Joe Jared'S Fidonet By Internet
        3 Headline News
        2 Philip Lozier'S Fidonet Software News
        2 Corrections & Retractions
        2 Comments On Previous Articles
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        1 The Snooze Twenty Years Ago
        1 Question Of The Week
        1 Matt'S Column - Matt Bedynek
        1 Humor In A Fido Vein
        1 A Tribute To Clay Tannacore
        1 A Tribute To Bennie Hutto


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                     LEE'S PUZZLE CORNER - LEE LAFOSO
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                              Word Search Puzzle

     This is a word search puzzle, submitted by Lee Lofaso.

     Instructions are simple.  Words at bottom are clues, being synonyms
     or antonyms of words in puzzle. Words can be vertical, horizontal,
     backwards, forwards, or diagonal. No time limit. :)


                                   Synonyms & Antonyms
                                   -------------------


                L G Q O Z U Z U N O S U L L M M Q H C N A U Q T W W W D
                I F Y R R Q E T J Y N I A T N I A M J E I M M P U V L I
                K J I T E T R S E M E M W L O Y X I G C B J X A V Q P N
                E R G I W P X K I X V J Q K X S H H E Q V H O D U I C W
                L S N B N I C D B W P Y A P Z B S X K R L I N I F K I J
                Y I X Q I Y X O D C Q L Q B Y I M M F G B U B R Q Q T C
                Z B L F D E L N U W I P P N L E I I X W B A V C T K H T
                R C G U Z C R N W K R I T O O S U C G D B M C N M U T R
                E E Y R W E I A E H I E O C L I O E U J I A E A C X A R
                O C G C E E B N K T G F L E E N T V V Y N C T U M L C A
                C G N O E L E B F M A Z A E S J F C L A O G T T U O N W
                C L J H Z S I I K I X D X O N R B L N N E U W P E J C U
                Y E Z P S K G G D K V T L L U T G U N A B L O S O R U G
                E L T X V S I E I G E E C R E W C I S S S P M P N F X I
                Q D Z X Q H C D T O E N J I J U H R S W K X R J O L E Y
                X P M X K I G P O S N X E G D E R E M U W P R J P H I R
                G W L D D A A G I Z X N O M N R R C A L J W T J G K R F
                C T B E I M W O A A U P J R Y P E D X Y M R Z C D N F F
                P F E K P G P V F N P W A O P D Y V R W J C Y H T H J Z
                T B D E X V I U M K T G W O W Q H Y Y T X I I G S X Y Q
                A I R U F M Y R T H E T Z N R M H O A L N T F Y E D K N
                F N E I M P H D E U K Z Z F O J W B X S V W W K B J I J
                O S I H L M Z U R X S Z L W B B Y K O O P F A S H F G J
                R U L P X M J F T W Q K Q L O Y M L Q A V Z V T Z A O I
                B L D V J D G F J W Y V X T H Y E F X V O V V W K X H W
                I T L R J L Q R V C X O Q S E N Q W Y B N R A J C T U E
                D K U Y A H K O E Y C V S T T R E L T T A B B C O W C O
                W A P O S G Y L H V P R I M E V A L I K K Q U S P B Y D


     1. destroy         9. friend         17. agreement      25. forsake
     2. goad           10. nihilism       18. guilty         26. superior
     3. caress         11. grisly         19. thoughtful     27. arrogant
     4. permission     12. victimize      20. ancient        28. respect
     5. rouse          13. encourage      21. stay           29. subside
     6. despotic       14. prudent        22. kind           30. madness
     7. obsession      15. despicable     23. hesitate
     8. burden         16. credible       24. counterpart

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                    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
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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.

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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
     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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

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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.

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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.

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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


     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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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