24 hours ago my synchronet bbs v 3.19b stopped connecting to FSXnet. I have made no changes or updates to SBBS. I have rebooted my PC and still get this message. I am running windows 10 64b. This has all been working great up until 24 hours ago when SBBS stopped making a polling connection with FSXnet.
Here is my Poll Log:

10/27 09:58:52a BINKPOLL Running timed event: BINKPOLL
10/27 09:58:52a BINKPOLL BinkIT/2.41 invoked with options: -p
10/27 09:58:52a BINKPOLL Attempting poll for node 21:1/100@fsxnet
10/27 09:58:52a BINKPOLL JSBinkP/4 callout to 21:1/100@fsxnet started
10/27 09:58:52a BINKPOLL Connecting to 21:1/100@fsxnet at f100.n1.z21.fsxnet.nz:24554
10/27 09:58:56a BINKPOLL Connection to f100.n1.z21.fsxnet.nz:24554 failed (Error: This is usually a temporary error during hostname resolution and means that the local server did not receive a response from an authoritative server. ).
10/27 09:58:56a BINKPOLL Timed event: BINKPOLL returned 0

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I enjoy FSXnet. Have a great weekend all.

Rixter
ricksbbs.synchro.net:23

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On Sun, Oct 27 15:33:22 -0500, you wrote:

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I enjoy FSXnet. Have a
great weekend all.

I see this exact same message in FSX_BBS. So maybe it fixed itself.

10/27 09:58:56a BINKPOLL Connection to f100.n1.z21.fsxnet.nz:24554
failed (Error: This is usually a temporary error during hostname
resolution and means that the local server did not receive a
response from an authoritative server. ).

This could mean that the binkp.net f.n.z host (I believe it is hosted in Fidonet zone 2) was down. To be honest, I never thought it was a good idea to rely on this for anything. Making direct links to the systems you want to connect to is a much better method.

Sometimes it's not Synchronet BBS's fault. You're connecting to other
systems that may have issues as well.

Avon mentioned he was going to be away for a couple weeks, whether it be personal or business, but it's quite possible his system stopped
answering, or his DNS provider was down for 24 hours, or the binkp.net thing was down. There's many reasons, but it probably wasn't your system that was the problem.

It's not always you and/or the system you're running. Sometimes you need
to just be patient and wait for things to clear up on it's own.

Regards,
Nick

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Nicholas Boel wrote to Rixter <=-

On Sun, Oct 27 15:33:22 -0500, you wrote:

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I enjoy FSXnet. Have a
great weekend all.

I see this exact same message in FSX_BBS. So maybe it fixed itself.

10/27 09:58:56a BINKPOLL Connection to f100.n1.z21.fsxnet.nz:24554
failed (Error: This is usually a temporary error during hostname
resolution and means that the local server did not receive a
response from an authoritative server. ).

This could mean that the binkp.net f.n.z host (I believe it is hosted
in Fidonet zone 2) was down. To be honest, I never thought it was a
good idea to rely on this for anything. Making direct links to the
systems you want to connect to is a much better method.

Absolutely agree. Using that binkp.net "DNS" function is not a good
idea.

The solution is to define/use a nodelist for the particular FTN, as
defined in the [domain] section of ../ctrl/sbbsecho.ini . It's
documented on the Wiki.



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On Sun, Oct 27 15:33:22 -0500, you wrote:

I see this exact same message in FSX_BBS. So maybe it fixed itself.

This could mean that the binkp.net f.n.z host (I believe it is hosted in Fidonet zone 2) was down. To be honest, I never thought it was a good idea to rely on this for anything. Making direct links to the systems you want to connect to is a much better method.

Sometimes it's not Synchronet BBS's fault. You're connecting to other
systems that may have issues as well.

Avon mentioned he was going to be away for a couple weeks, whether it be personal or business, but it's quite possible his system stopped
answering, or his DNS provider was down for 24 hours, or the binkp.net thing was down. There's many reasons, but it probably wasn't your system that was the problem.

It's not always you and/or the system you're running. Sometimes you need
to just be patient and wait for things to clear up on it's own.

Regards,
Nick

... Take my advice, I don't use it anyway.
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[vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net

It started working again just now. You are correct. It is working again. I just had to wait. Have a great Sunday. Thank you for replying.

telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
Madison,NC

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Re: Synchronet BBS stopped connecting to FSXnet suddenly!
By: Rixter to All on Sun Oct 27 2024 08:33:22

24 hours ago my synchronet bbs v 3.19b stopped connecting to FSXnet. I have made no changes or updates to SBBS. I have rebooted my PC and still get this message. I am running windows 10 64b. This has all been working great up until 24 hours ago when SBBS stopped making a polling connection with FSXnet. Here is my Poll Log:

10/27 09:58:52a BINKPOLL Running timed event: BINKPOLL 10/27 09:58:52a BINKPOLL BinkIT/2.41 invoked with options: -p 10/27 09:58:52a BINKPOLL Attempting poll for node 21:1/100@fsxnet 10/27 09:58:52a BINKPOLL JSBinkP/4 callout to 21:1/100@fsxnet started 10/27 09:58:52a BINKPOLL Connecting to 21:1/100@fsxnet at f100.n1.z21.fsxnet.nz:24554
10/27 09:58:56a BINKPOLL Connection to f100.n1.z21.fsxnet.nz:24554 failed (Error: This is usually a temporary error during hostname resolution and means that the local server did not receive a response from an authoritative server. ).
10/27 09:58:56a BINKPOLL Timed event: BINKPOLL returned 0

Looks like the server is down, this happens from time to time.. sure it will be back up, you may be able to quicken that by contacting the person who runs the server.
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On Sun, Oct 27 19:04:42 -0500, you wrote:

It started working again just now. You are correct. It is working
again. I just had to wait. Have a great Sunday. Thank you for
replying.

For the record, FSX never stopped working here, but I connect to Avon directly, without using binkp.net (which should be a fallback method, not the main means of connecting).

Have a great Sunday as well.

Regards,
Nick

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Re: Synchronet BBS stopped connecting to FSXnet suddenly!
By: Rixter to All on Sun Oct 27 2024 08:33:22

Looks like the server is down, this happens from time to time.. sure it will be back up, you may be able to quicken that by contacting the person who runs the server.
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I contacted AVon and now it is working again.

Tim (kk4qbn)
+o kk4qbn.synchro.net
¨ Synchronet ¨ KK4QBN BBS - kk4qbn.synchro.net - Chatsworth, GA USA

telnet://ricksbbs.synchro.net:23
http://ricksbbs.synchro.net:8080
Madison,NC

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Re: Synchronet BBS stopped connecting to FSXnet suddenly!
By: Rixter to kk4qbn on Sun Oct 27 2024 22:27:18

Looks like the server is down, this happens from time to time.. sure it will be back up, you may be able to quicken that by contacting the person who runs the server.
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I contacted AVon and now it is working again.

I have offered to provide backup name servers for fsxnet. I have one in the UK and two in the US on different networks in Dallas, which may help in future. We're going to set it up when he gets back from his trip.

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