Hi All,

Could I get one or more people to help me test this ping script?

I'll need someone to send me a netmail

To: Ping

and another

To: PingC

(The case in the To: field shouldn't matter, the script should respond to ping, PING or even PiNg).

Please send one to 21:3/110 and another to one of my other addresses
(1:229/664 or 618:400/23).

You should receive a response from the address you sent to. If you send to Ping you should receive a routed response. If you send to PingC you should receive a direct response.

This script also supports TRACE responses where the script will still respond if a Ping netmail passes through, but isn't specifically addressed to that system.

This script was taken from Deon's fidohub repository and butchered by yours truly. If you wanted to take a look or if you run hpt and wanted to try it yourself, you can see the script here:

https://nrbbs.net/pong.pl.txt

I'm not a programmer or anything, so this may not be the best or even the correct way to do any of this. It seems to work here well enough but if it breaks, you get to keep both pieces. If anyone has any suggestions or modifications I'd be happy to see them.


Jay

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--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
* Origin: Northern Realms (21:3/110)

Hello Warpslide!

On 18 Nov 2024, Warpslide said the following...

Could I get one or more people to help me test this ping script?

Sent (routed) to 21:3/110 and 1:229/664, both to Ping and PingC. I received replies only for the FidoNet ones; a PONGC reply ("Your PINGC request has been received at its final destination") and two "An In-transit PING request was received and forwarded onward" (one for the Ping and one for the PingC).

I also received a TRACE response from "Ping TRACE service" at 1:320/219.

Hope this helps!

Best regards
Zip

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A49 2024/05/29 (Linux/64)
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Hi All,

Could I get one or more people to help me test this ping script?

I'll need someone to send me a netmail

Warpslide, after I send this message I'll sent the tests you requested. Note sure if I have access to the 618 network, I'll try anyway.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
* Origin: bbs.CabanaBar.net:11123 (21:1/246)

I got replies from both the Ping and PingC on fsxnet, nothing back yet from the Fidonet.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
* Origin: bbs.CabanaBar.net:11123 (21:1/246)

I also received a response from FidoNet, I have forwarded you personally the responses.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A48 (Windows/32)
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Re: Testing pong.pl
By: Warpslide to All on Mon Nov 18 2024 09:26 am

Howdy,

Could I get one or more people to help me test this ping script?

Just sent two, one to each ping/pingc.

I'll let you know what response I get (and you could see the routed response in clrghouz).


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Re: Testing pong.pl
By: deon to Warpslide on Tue Nov 19 2024 09:22 am

Howdy,

Could I get one or more people to help me test this ping script?

Just sent two, one to each ping/pingc.

So they both worked a treat (I only sent to fsxnet).

I noticed the pingc response had a fido via line:

X-FTN-MSGID 21:3/110 673bbdea
X-FTN-REPLY 21:2/116 2ba110c0
X-FTN-Flags DIR IMM
X-FTN-Kludge Via 1:229/664 @20241118.222130.UTC hpt/lnx 1.9 2024-03-02 SenderNetType FidoNet
SenderNetAddr 21:3/110
ToNetType FidoNet
ToNetAddr 21:2/116

I remember trying to fix that with hpt, and dont think I did. But it probably doesnt matter as I received it just fine :)


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