Re: FSXNet help
  By: Nightfox to All on Sat May 04 2019 09:30 pm

 > Hi all,
 >
 > I'm trying to set up FSXNet on my BBS as a FTN.  I'm using BinkIt, and I
 > think I've got it all set up on my BBS, but am running into a problem.
 > Using echocfg, I've configured it to use port 24556 for the FSXNet host
 > port, as the sysop mentioned.  However, when BinkIt tries to connect to the
 > host BBS, it tries to connect to f100.n1.z21.example.com:24554.  The port is
 > wrong, and the address doesn't look like it's valid either.  I checked my
 > host node configurations for the other nodes, and under the BinkP settings,
 > I didn't have anything configured for the Host setting, so I imagine it's
 > probably getting that information from the nodelist?  I tried adding a host
 > to the FSXNet host configuration in echocfg anyway, but that didn't fix
 > anything.  I'm not sure where it's getting that address or port for FSXNet.

Maybe your confusing the listening port for BinkIt with the port of the
linked-nodes? It'd help if you pasted snippets from your sbbsecho.ini file or
screenshots from EchoCfg so we can see what you're trying.

 > Also, I have AgoraNet set up on my BBS, which is another FTN network, and I
 > realized both AgoraNet and FSXNet use zone 21.  I imagine that may cause
 > problems - Is that true?

Yes, that'd be a problem.

 > If so, I'm not sure if there is a workaround,

The workaround would be to use 5D addressing (domains), but SBBSecho is not
really 5D capable, so you'd have to have 2 different sbbsecho.ini files and
invoke SBBSecho separately for the 2 different networks, pointing to 2
different sets of in/outbound directories. BinkIt does support 5D addressing,
but I don't think it can support more than one sbbsecho.ini file, so dunno if
you'd just run multiple instances of BinkIt or what.

 > unless I'm able to use QWK for one of the networks instead of FTN.  AgoraNet
 > stopped using QWK a while ago, but it sounds like FSXNet might be available
 > via QWK. The hub sysop for FSXNet went ahead and set me up via FTN though..

QWK would be a good option.

                                            digital man

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