FidoNews · Vol 41, No 53 · 30 Dec 2024
The F I D O N E W S Volume 41, Number 53 30 Dec 2024
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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
IPv6 in 2024 ............................................. 2
3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 6
List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 6
4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 9
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 9
5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 10
6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 18
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 18
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 19
7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 21
How to Submit an Article ................................. 21
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 23
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Tradition is just peer pressure from the dead.
-- meme from X, 2024
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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IPv6 in 2024
By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555
Another year has passed. When we compare the statistics as published
by the end of 2022 and 2023 with those of today, we see that last
year's dip has been filled, but there isn't any overal growth any
more. The number of Fidonet IPv6 nodes keeps hoovering just over
100. At the moment of writing there are 109 nodes.
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The number of nodes carrying the INO4 flag dropped from 5 to 3. So the
vast majority of Fidonet still supports full IPv4. Not really what I
expected, but that is what it is.
What also strikes me is that about a quarter of the Fidonet IPv6 nodes
still uses a tunnel. Most of them via he.net, but a few via another
tunnel broker. Apparently there are still many ISPs around that do not
support IPv6. Shame!
Outside of Fidonet IPv6 continues to grow. Slowly but steadily. Accor-
ding to Google worldwide IPv6 adoptation now hoovers around just under
50%. Almost half of those visiting Google do so via IPv6.
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https://www.google.com/intl/nl/ipv6/statistics.html
Some even claim the tipping point has been reached where IPv6 is now
the norm but I would say this is premature.
Regarding my personal situation: I participated in a project building
a particulate matter sensor. The idea is to have many of these sensors
spread around to continuesly monitor and collect particulate matter
data over a long period of time: maps.sensor.community. Zoom in on
my location and click on sensor #87057 to see the partical density,
temperature, air pessure and relative humidity here.
The thing is build around a an ESP8266 NodeMCU V2. It has limited
resources so the designers "forgot" about IPv6. I managed to raise the
interest of one of the developers and some changes to implement IPv6
were made. The experimental firmware version that I run now does http
via IPv6 and so data are exchanged in IPv6 with the servers of the
sensor community. The user interface is also available via IPv6. But..
the ESP8266 does not have a hardware clock and so the only source of
time are the NNTP servers on the internet. And its NNTP is IPv4 only
for now. Same for DNS: IPv4 only. So this gadget is far from being
able to function in an IPv6 only environment. Pity because it is
equipmemt like this that prolongs the need to support IPv4. What I
should do of of course instead of complaining is to delve into it and
add full IPv6 support myself. But Frankly, at my age I mis the drive
and the energy. Plus that it will only solve this particular problem
and not the problem of the hundreds or thousands of similar gadgets
where the developers choose the easy way of ignoring IPv6...
Then again: my two globalping probes (runnig on a NanoPI Neo 512m) are
doing fine with full IPv6 support: dash.globalping.io.
All the same, we are stil a long way from IPv6 only.
For some more on doing away with IPv4, here is an interesting article
by Alex Haydock about running an (almost) IPv6 only environment. The
title of the article is: No NAT November:
https://blog.infected.systems/posts/2024-12-01-no-nat-november/
For those who read the article it should be clear that the greatest
botlleneck for operating in an IPv6 only environment are applications
that use literal IPv4 addresses. Reaching IPv4 only servers adressable
by a symbolic host name from an IPv6 only environment is possible
using NAT64 en DNS64. Those can be installed on the perimeter of the
IPv6 only system or beyond. Doable without very much effort. But
literal IPv4 adresses are another kettle of fish. For that you need
CLAT and that must be installed on the system running the application.
And that brings us back to Fidonet. Is Fidonet using literal IPv4
addresses and is it possible to use CLAT on Fidonet systems? Short
answers: yes and no. Yes, Fidonet uses literal IPv4 adresses and no,
for the vast majority of Fidonet systems it is not possible to install
CLAT. For an explanation on the latter, read the above article.
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So where do we find these liteal IPv4 adresses? In the nodelist! Per
FTS-5000 and FTS-5001 literal IP addresses can be used instead of
symbolic host names in the nodelist. For IPv6 this option is very
rarely used but in the IC's daily nodelist (#357 at the moment of
counting) there are 68 literal IPv4 addresses. I may have missed some
or my filter may have had some false positives but is clear that it is
more than just a few and too many too ignore.
So do we need to do something about it and if yes, what? It is obvi-
ously not a matter of great urgency. AFAIK there are no Fidonet
systems running in an IPv6 only environment. And that may not change
for a while. IPv4 will be with us for a some time, maybe quit a long
time and the pioneer spirit that once was the driving force of Fidonet
is almost gone. So we may not see Fidonet systems running in an IPv6
only environment any time soon. Maybe never. Despite that it is always
good to be prepaired. So how should we deal with the literal IPv4
addresses in the nodelist?
Option 1: Convince the sysops in question to go install IPv6. This is
no guarantee that the literal IPv6 adresses wil disappear, but
presently all dual stack systems use symbolic host names. Convincing
all sysops concerned may be difficult. If it was easy for them to
install IPv6 they would probably have done it already. Plus that to
convince them, they have to be reached first. That may be a problem in
itself...
Option 2: Convince the sysops in question to use a symbolic host name
for adressing their systems. This may not be easy either. It has no
direct advantage for them and "it works" doesn't it?
Option 3: Handle it at the NC level. For NCs it would be relatively
easy to create host names for the less than handfull literal IPv4
addresses in their segments and enter them manually. Presuamably those
literal IPv4 adresses are static so it is not a great burden on the
NCs. Then again, we may run into the same problem as when trying to
convince individual sysops.
Option 4: Deal with it on the RC, ZC or IC level. For the RC and ZC
level we have the same probem as with te NCs. Some may not be all that
enthousiastic. But for the IC level it may be doable. The IC runs a
program called ErrFlags and maybe Erflags could be adapted to replace
literal IPv4 addresses with symbolic host names.
Option 5: Something else on a global scale. But... hey wait... we
already have that! It is called binkp.net. So for those who want to
run Fidonet in an IPv6 only environment using NAT64 and DNS64 to
reach IPv4 only systems, just configure your binkd to use binkp.net
and the literal IPv4 adresses will be taken care of. OK, that only
works for binkd but there is just one system using a literal IPv4
address that has no binkp capability so for that one you just have to
configure a manual override. If you want to make a direct connect
using vmodem that is...
Did I test this? Yes of course! See next week's article...
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In order not to have to tell the same story over and over again, I
sometimes refer people to Fidonews articles I wrote in the past.
Since there seems to be no easely available searcheable archive, I
made a list of these articles. I hope I did not miss any.
My previous Fidonews articles about IPv6:
FN 26:31 Jul 2009 FidoNet and IPv6
FN 28:04 Jan 2011 FidoNet and IPv4 depletion
FN 28:07 Feb 2011 Fido and IPv6 Day
FN 28:16 Apr 2011 APNIC runs out
FN 28:20 May 2011 The IPv6 echo
FN 28:31 Aug 2011 A SECOND LIFE FOR THE LINKSYS Part 1
FN 28:32 Aug 2011 A SECOND LIFE FOR THE LINKSYS PArt 2
FN 28:45 Nov 2011 A "first"
FN 29:04 Jan 2012 World IPv6 Launch Day, 6 June 2012
FN 29:09 Feb 2012 A SECOND LIFE FOR THE LINKSYS Part 3
FN 29:38 Sep 2012 RIPE is out of IPv4 addresses.
FN 32:17 Apr 2015 IPv6 penetration in the nodelist
FN 32:26 Jun 2015 ARIN is out of IPv4 addresses.
FN 32:52 Dec 2015 IPv6 in Fidonet by the end of 2015
FN 33:02 Jan 2016 IPv6 in two thousand SIX teen
FN 33:06 Feb 2016 Another barrier broken.
FN 34:01 Jan 2017 IPv6 in 2016
FN 34:13 Mar 2017 SixXs Sunset 06-06-2017
FN 34:30 Jul 2017 TV without IPv6
FN 34:31 Jul 2017 DS-Lite emulation experiment v2.0
FN 34:37 Sep 2017 DS-Lite emulation experiment 2.0, the results
FN 34:33 Aug 2017 DS-Lite: a solution
FN 34:38 Sep 2017 DS-Lite Emulation experiment v2.1
FN 35:01 Jan 2018 IPv6 in 2017
FN 35:53 Dec 2018 IPv6 in 2018
FN 36:52 Dec 2019 IPv6 in 2019
FN 38:01 Jan 2021 IPv6 in 2020
FN 38:20 May 2021 100 IPv6 nodes
FN 39:01 Jan 2022 IPv6 in 2021
FN 40:01 Jan 2023 IPv6 in 2022
FN 41:01 Jan 2024 IPv6 in 2023
Happy IPv6 in 2025.
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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 4 Dec 2024
Node Nr. Sysop Type Provider Remark
1 2:280/464 Wilfred van Velzen Native Freedom f
2 2:280/5003 Kees van Eeten Native KPN f
3 2:5019/40 Konstantin Kuzov T-6in4 he.net f
4 2:280/5555 Michiel van der Vlist Native Ziggo/Caiway f
5 1:320/219 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
6 2:221/1 Tommi Koivula Native Elisa f
7 2:221/6 Tommi Koivula Native OVH
8 1:154/10 Nicholas Boel Native Spectrum f
9 2:203/2 Bjorn Felten T-6in4 he.net
10 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native KPN f INO4
11 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6in4 he.net f
12 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov T-6in4 he.net f
13 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
14 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6in4 IP4Market
15 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek Native CZ-IJC-20071015
16 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
17 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native AusNetServers f
18 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
19 3:770/1 Paul Hayton Native VETTA
20 3:770/100 Paul Hayton Native VETTA
21 2:5053/58 Alexander Kruglikov Native ER-Telecom f
22 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
23 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh Native Internode
24 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter Native DE-NETCUP f
25 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
26 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
27 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
28 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
29 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native Layer7 Networks
30 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
31 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
32 2:240/5413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
33 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
34 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
35 2:5020/1042 Stas Mishchenkov T-6-in4 he.net f
36 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
37 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
38 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 IP4Market f
39 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native KPN
40 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
41 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
42 2:5101/1 Andrey Ignatov Native HETZNER
43 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net f
44 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
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45 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko Native ER-Telecom f
46 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native SAGE-SU-V6
47 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus
48 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny T-6in4 he.net f
49 2:5053/400 Alexander Kruglikov Native FirstVDS f
50 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
51 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
52 2:240/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
53 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native WEDOS
54 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
55 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native OVH
56 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US f
57 2:5030/1520 Andrey Geyko T-6in4 he.net f
58 1:229/664 Jay Harris Native Rogers f
59 2:280/2030 Martien Korenblom Native Transip
60 3:633/509 Deon George Native Telstra
61 2:5020/4441 Yuri Myakotin Native SOVINTEL
62 1:320/319 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
63 2:240/5824 Anna Christina Nass Native DTAG f
64 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f INO4
65 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN
66 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
67 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
68 2:301/113 Alisha Stutz T-6in4 he.ne
69 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms
70 1:218/840 Morgan Collins Native Linode
71 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin Native HURRICANE-IPV6-24
72 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Vodafone
73 2:280/2040 Leo Barnhoorn Native KPN f
74 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
75 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4
76 1:218/850 John Nicpon Native LINODE-US
77 2:301/1 Alisha Stutz Native CH-DATAWIRE
78 2:5035/63 Vladimir Goncharov Native RFEIV6NET
79 2:5020/290 Andrew Kolchoogin T-6in4 he.net
80 1:214/22 Ray Quinn T-6in4 he.net
81 2:5030/49 Sergey Myasoedov Native FR-VIRTUA-SYSTEMS
82 1:218/820 Ryan Fantus Native DIGITALOCEAN
83 1:103/705 Rob Swindell Native Spectrum f
84 1:135/395 Charles Blackburn Native Charter Comms
85 1:134/303 Travis Mehrer Native Shaw Comms
86 2:5057/19 Max Vasilyev Native ER-Telecom f
87 2:5075/35 Eugene Subbotin Native RUWEB f
88 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin Native IHC
89 2:5075/128 Eugene Subbotin T-6in4 IP4Market f
90 2:550/278 Vladislav Muschinskikh Native FirstByte
91 2:5010/278 Vladislav Muschinskikh T-6in4 he.net f
92 2:240/5411 Stephan Gebbers Native DTAG
93 2:5020/715 Alex Barinov T-6in4 he.net f
94 1:16/201 Sergey Myasoedov Native Amazon
95 1:104/117 Vitaliy Aksyonov Native LLC
96 2:5030/1340 Dmitry Afanasiev T-6in4 TUNNEL-BROKER-NET
97 2:221/360 Tommi Koivula Native Elisa f
98 2:5031/25 Alex Kazankov Native VDSINA
99 4:902/26 Fernando Toledo Native Claro
100 2:280/2050 Floris van Unen Native Azure
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101 2:280/2060 Dennis Slagers Native Ziggo f
102 2:467/4 Ruslan Suleimanov T-6in4 he.net
103 2:467/888 Ruslan Suleimanov T-6in4 he.net f
104 1:266/625 Scott Street Native Verizon
105 2:5020/5452 Alex Barinov T-6in4 he.net
106 2:5030/723 Alexey Khromov Native RU-AI-20240222
107 3:633/2744 Deon George Native EXETEL-AU
108 4:930/1 David Gonzalez Native EPMNET
109 3:633/267 Andrew Clarke Native widebandnetv6 OO
T-6in4 Static 6in4
T-AYIY Dynamic AYIYA
T-6to4 6to4
T-6RD 6RD
Remarks:
f Has a ::f1d0:<zone>:<net>:<node> style host address.
Example: ::f1d0:2:280:5555 (for node 2:280/5555)
IO Incoming only (Node can not make outgoing IPv6 calls)
OO Outgoing only (Node can not accept incoming 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)
6DWN The IPv6 connectivity of this node is temporarely down.
NO6 The node no longer presents an IPv6 address in the nodelist
and will soon be removed from this list.
HOLD The node is temporarely off-line. Mail may be routed.
DOWN This node is Down for both IPv4 and IPv6 and will be
removed from this list if the condition pertains.
PM Prospective Member. The node has demonstrated IPv6
capability but is not listed or does not advertise an
IPv6 address in the Fidonet nodelist yet.
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 for binkd up to 1.1a-96, -64 option for binkd 1.1a-97
and up when compiled with AF_FORCE=1). If the destination address
is a 6to4 tunnel address (2002::/16) many OSs default to IPv4 if
an IPv4 address is present.
Submitted on day 364
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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 2023-09-06
URL news://eljaco.se:4119
Join http://fidonews.eu
NETMAIL Yes, 2:203/2
URL nntp://rbb.fidonet.fi
Join https://news.fidonet.fi
NETMAIL Yes, 2:221/360
URL nntp://fidonews.mine.nu
URL nntps://fidonews.mine.nu
Join http://fidonews.mine.nu
NETMAIL Yes, 2:221/6
URL nntp://news.bytemuseum.org
nntps://news.bytemuseum.org (secure)
Join Info in group +ACCCESS&SUPPORT+
NETMAIL Yes, 1:19/10
URL nntp://news.pharcyde.org
Join Info in group, +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 1:154/10
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FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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BBS Software List
Updated 2024-11-15
Maintained by Andrew Leary (1:320/219)
Editors Emeritus: Robert Couture, Janis Kracht,
Sean Dennis
M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal
P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility #=Info
F=TIC/SRIF Processor
*=Software is available and may be registerable,
but no longer supported or updated.
@=Website is operating but is no longer updated.
?=Software's updating/support status is unknown.
O=Software is open source.
This list contains BBS-related software that is available
for registration (not necessarily supported), open source
software and actively developed/supported software by its
author. Software listed may be available for DOS, Linux,
OS/2 (eComStation), Windows (16 or 32 bit) and OSX.
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|Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node|
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==> FRONT-END/INTERNET MAILERS
Argus |MI*? |http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products
| | /argus/
| | v3.210 on 2001-03-29
BinkleyTerm XE |MO* |http://btxe.sourceforge.net
| | 2.60XE Beta-XH7 on 2000-10-22
BinkD |MI? |http://binkd.grumbler.org
| | gul@gul.kiev.ua 2:463/68
| | v.1.0.4
| | v.1.1a-115 (alpha)
| | ftp://cvs.happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft
| | /mailer/binkd/
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| |http://www.filegate.net/r50/aftnbinkd/
D'Bridge |MTCPE|http://www.dbridgemailer.com
|I | support@dbridgemailer.com 1:1/130
Nick Andre | | v4.00 on 2024-11-12
FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.datenbahn.dd-dns.de/
| | cdp/fp_deluxe/
| | v2.4 on 2003-09-26
FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MITPC|http://www.defsol.se
Definite Solutions |E | sales@defsol.se
| | FD v2.33ml, FD/APX v1.15
InterMail |MCPE |http://www.Intermail.net 1:106/201
Dale Barnes | | dalebarnes42@majik.net
| | IM v2.60 on 2017-08-28
Husky Project |MTPUI|http://husky.sourceforge.net/
|EO? | v1.9 RC2 on 2010-04-20
Taurus |MI |http://www.fidotel.com/public/forums/
(based on Radius) |? | taurus/index.htm
| | v5.0 on 2006-06-12
| |
T-Mail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru (Russian only)
|? | v2608 on 2001-12-12
AfterShock |MTEI |https://play.google.com/store/apps/
Asvcorp | | details?id=com.asvcorp.aftershock
Anatoly Vdovichev | | rudi.timmermans@mailfence.com
Rudi Timmermans | | v1.7.1 on 2022-11-30 2:292/140
HotDogEd |E |https://play.google.com/store/apps/
Sergey Pushkin | | details?id=com.pushkin.hotdoged
| | v2.13.5 on 2017-03-13 2:5020/2141
HotDogEd FidoNet |MTI |https://play.google.com/store/apps/
Provider | | details?id=com.pushkin.hotdoged.fido
Sergey Pushkin | | v2.13.5 on 2017-03-13 2:5020/2141
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==> MAIL TOSSERS
Crashmail II |TO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/
| | crashmail.html
FastEcho |T |http://www.softeq.de/old/Products
| | /FastEcho/fastecho.html
| | v1.46.1 on 2007-11-13
| | Registration keys are free & available
| | by request from the author
Fidogate |TUI? |http://www.fidogate.org
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| | v4.4.10 on 2004-08-27
| |
FMail |TO |https://sourceforge.net/projects/fmail/
| | v2.3.1.0 on 2024-03-30 2:280/464
InterEcho |T |http://www.Intermail.net 1:220/60
Dale Barnes | | dalebarnes42@majik.net
| | IE 1.20 on 2017-08-28
JetMail: JetSys |TU |
(ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on 2000-01-01
Squish |T* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/
| | v1.11R2 on 2009-01-01
| | Source code available in Maximus BBS
| | archive: http://maximus.sourceforge.net
WWIVToss |T |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/
| | v1.51 on 2015-05-23
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==> BBS SOFTWARE
BBBS |BICTM|http://www.bbbs.net 2:222/2
| | b@bbbs.net
| | v4.01 on 2007-01-28
EleBBS |BO*? |http://www.elebbs.com
| | v0.10.RC1 on 2002-06-09
Enthral BBS |B |http://enthralbbs.com
Linux/BSD/OSX | | v0.429/Alpha on 2010-10-14
| | Fidonet filebone SCENEENT
Ezycom BBS |BT* |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com
| | v2.15g2 on 2009-11-16
GT Power |B |http://www.gtpowerbbs.com/
| | v19.00
Hermes II Project |BT |http://www.hermesbbs.com/
Macintosh-based | | malyn@strangegizmo.com
| | v3.5.10b3
Maximus BBS |BO* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/
| | v3.03
| | Source code available at:
| | http://maximus.sourceforge.net/
MBSE BBS |BMTFI|https://sourceforge.net 1:1/119
|PO | /projects/mbsebbs
| | ajleary@sourceforge.net
| | v1.1.0 on 2024-07-13
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Meltdown BBS |UIO |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/
| | v1.0b on 2004-04-26
Mystic BBS |BMTCE|http://www.mysticbbs.com
|I | v1.12 A48 on 2023-01-15
NiKom BBS (Amiga) |BO |http://www.nikom.org
| | v2.3.1 on 2017-07-01
RemoteAccess BBS |B? |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120
| | bfmorse@rapro.com
| | v2.62.2SW on 2000-10-25
Renegade BBS |B |http://renegadebbs.info 1:129/305
| | v1.33/DOS on 2023-05-05
Spitfire BBS |B? |http://www.buffalocrk.com/
| | mdwoltz@buffalocrk.com
| | v3.7 on 2010-01-01
Synchronet BBS |BMTIO|http://www.synchro.net 1:103/705
| | v3.19b on 2022-01-02
Telegard BBS |B* |
| | v3.09g2-sp4/mL on 1999-12-19
WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com
Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com
Xpress: Santronics | |
Software, Inc. | | v8.0 AUP 454.12 on 2021-05-14
WWIV BBS |B |http://www.wwivbbs.org
| | v5.6.1 on 2021-04-23
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==> TIC PROCESSORS/FILEFIX/SRIF
Allfix |FIUT |http://www.allfix.com/ 1:218/720
Ken Johnson | | v6.1.0 on 2019-02-02
NEF/pk |F |http://nefpk.8m.com/
| | v2.45b2 on 2000-03-05
TinyTIC |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net
| | /tinytic.html
VIReq |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net
| | /vireq.html
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==> BBS DOORS/UTILITIES
Cheepware |DU |http://outpostbbs.net/cheepware.html
Sean Dennis | | sysop@outpostbbs.net 1:18/200
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| | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE
DDS (Doorware |D@ |http://www.doorgames.org
Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org
Ruth Argust | |
Jibben Software |D* |http://www.jibbensoftware.com/
| | bbs-door-games.cfm
| | scott@jibben.com
| | 1995-99 Release dates
John Dailey Software |DU |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com
Shining Star |D* |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/
| | nannette@shiningstar.net
| | Doors are registerable via website
Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com
Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com
| | Tel: (404) 256-9518
T1ny's Software |DU |http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/tsoft/
Shawn Highfield | | shighfield@gmail.com 1:229/452
| | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE
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 |DU* |http://vbsoft.dhakota.org
| | d@dhakota.org
| | Last update: 2008-04-11
WWIVEdit |DE |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/
| | v3.0 on 2011-06-27
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==> POINT SOFTWARE
APoint |PI |https://stargate.org.uk/apoint/
| | v1.25 on 2001-12-12 (Win32)
| | Needs the binkD Toolkit for Fido-over-IP
| | which is available from the above URL.
CrossPoint |P |http://www.crosspoint.de
| | pm@crosspoint.de
| | v3.12d on 1999-12-22 (DOS, Shareware)
FreeXP |PO |http://www.freexp.de
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| | support@freexp.de
| | v3.42 on 2020-09-25 (DOS)
OpenXP |PIO |https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/
| |https://openxp.uk/
| | dev@openxp.uk
| | v5.0.51 on 2021-12-26
| | (Win32, Linux(64-Bit})
WinPoint |PI |http://www.winpoint.org/
| | Tim Schattkowsky 2:240/1120.29
| | v415.0 on 2023-02-17 (Win32)
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==> SYSOP MAIL EDITORS
GoldEd+ |EO |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/
| | v1.1.5 (Snapshot) on 2023-02-14
| | NOTE: Unstable versions released often
SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de 2:2476/493
| | v1.15 on 1999-12-15
| | Website is in German and English
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==> INTERNET UTILITIES
Ifmail |UIO |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net
| | crosser@average.org
Internet Rex |UI? |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/
| | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806
| | v2.29 on 2001-10-21
JamNNTPd |UIO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net
| | /jamnntpd.html
Luckygate |UO | ftp://happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/gate
| | /lgate
| | gul@gul.kiev.ua
MakeNL |UO |http://makenl.sourceforge.net
| | v3.5.0 on 2019-05-06
PLMake |UOP |https://sourceforge.net/projects
| | /plmake 2:280/464
| | v2.1 beta on 2024-11-01
ErrFlags |UO |http://sourceforge.net/projects
| | /errflags 2:280/464
| | v3.0.0 on 2023-02-21
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RNtrack |U |http://sourceforge.net/projects
| | /ftrack-as 2:5080/102
| |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
| | v2.1.10 on 2020-04-30
TransNet |UIO? |http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/
| | transnet/index.html
| | transnet@ressl.com.ar
| | v2.11 on 2007-09-13
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==> INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES/BBS LISTS
Telnet/Dialup BBS |# |http://www.telnetbbsguide.com 1:275/89
Guide | | Maintained by Dave Perrussel
| | This is probably the most updated BBS
| | list on the Internet for a general
| | BBS list.
Synchronet BBS List |# |http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html
| | Maintained automatically
| | This list is specifically for
| | Synchronet-based BBS systems and is
| | automatically updated nightly.
The BBS Corner |# |http://www.bbscorner.com
| | This website is more than just files,
| | it's an encyclopedia of knowledge for
| | BBS sysops and people who want to
| | become sysops. This site is run by
| | the same person who does the Telnet
| | BBS Guide.
BBS Nexus |# |https://bbsnexus.com
| | This website offers a searchable list
| | of Telnet BBS's.
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File Archives:
http://archives.thebbs.org
http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org (site is no longer maintained)
http://www.filegate.net/ (FTP access via port 60721)
Note: Most also provide FTP access (use ftp instead of http above)
The BBS Software List is published weekly in the FidoNews.
If you have corrections, suggestions or additions to the information
above, please contact Andrew Leary with your information via the
FIDONEWS echo or netmail at 1:320/219.
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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
201/* 1.4m 0.5m 17 0.0h 0.0h 17
203/* 1.1m 0.5m 2 0.4h 0.6h 2
221/* 0.7m 0.5m 600 4.4h 5.9h 599
280/* 1.2m 5.2m 510 5.7h 5.4h 507
292/* 3.6m 1.6m 12 5.7h 3.6h 11
320/* 2.7m 1.1m 262 2.0h 4.7h 262
Sigma 1.3m 3.3m 1403 4.4h 5.6h 1398
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.362
size 160.4kb
date 2024-12-27
The nodelist has 824 nodes in it
and a total of 1203 non-comment entries
including 4 zones
30 regions
157 hosts
59 hubs
admin overhead 250 ( 30.34 %)
and 84 private nodes
19 nodes down
26 nodes on hold
off line overhead 129 ( 15.66 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 20 ( 2.43 %)
9600 = 89 ( 10.80 %)
(HST = 2 or 2.25 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
(V32 = 53 or 59.55 %)
(V32B = 0 or 0.00 %)
(V34 = 53 or 59.55 %)
(V42 = 47 or 52.81 %)
(V42B = 0 or 0.00 %)
2400 = 1 ( 0.12 %)
1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
300 = 714 ( 86.65 %)
ISDN = 19 ( 2.31 %)
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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems
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IBN Binkp 711 ( 86.29 %)
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IFC Raw ifcico 62 ( 7.52 %)
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IFT FTP 36 ( 4.37 %)
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ITN Telnet 101 ( 12.26 %)
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IVM Vmodem 12 ( 1.46 %)
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IP Other 1 ( 0.12 %)
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INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.61 %)
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CrashMail capable = 758 ( 91.99 %)
MailOnly nodes = 244 ( 29.61 %)
Listed-only nodes = 18 ( 2.18 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/2]
[ NetStats 3.8 2014-11-23]
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