F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 30 27 July 1998 +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: | | FidoNet community | "FidoNews" | | _ | 1-209-251-7529 [1:1/23] | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | Editor: | | | (*) | \ )) | Zorch Frezberg 1:205/1701 | | |__U__| / \// | | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Submission address: FidoNews Editor 1:1/23 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | MORE addresses: | | | | submissions=> editor@fidonews.org | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | For information, copyrights, article submissions, | | obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ | | please refer to the end of this file. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ "This edition published under duress." Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1 2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2 FidoNet over IP, Part 1 of 4 ............................. 2 FidoNet over IP, Part 2: What do I need for it? .......... 5 3. COLUMNS .................................................. 8 Cosmology predestines yogurt ............................. 8 4. NOTICES .................................................. 10 Future History ........................................... 10 5. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 11 FidoNews PGP Public-Key Listing .......................... 11 6. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 12 7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 15 FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 1 27 Jul 1998 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= With all else going on, the eye surgery seems to have taken a turn for the worse, so this one will be mostly brief. Lothar Behet has submitted the start of a series of articles on the ideas and concepts of FidoNet over IP addressing that are worthy of review and merit. The first two of a projected four parts are in this issue. I've also been advised of something forthcoming from one of the FTSC working groups, which has not yet arrived in the Editor's inbound. As to the vagaries of Zone 1, always keep in mind that not all sides have been heard from. -zf- ### 30 ### ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 2 27 Jul 1998 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= FidoNet over IP, Part 1 of 4 Copyright by Lothar Behet Part 1: What is Fidonet over IP? Fidonet-over-IP (later called "FIP" in this article) tries to integrate another medium as carrier-service beside the conventional telephony connectivity. The most basic technical specification of Fidonet (FTS-1, version 15, dated Aug. 30 1990) describes the handshake procedure, as it can be used within conventional pstn environments. Foreseeing the technical development, Chapter H leaves room for future extensions: | H. Physical Layer : the Actual Connection of Two FidoNet Systems | | Will one of the more hardware-oriented comm types give me some | idea of what's needed here? Can we leave it open enough to allow | implementation over a non-dial net? Thanks. The internet is just one more possible physical layer in place of a direct (sometimes quite expensive) connection between two nodes. It may be discussed, if FTS-1 handshake specification is required for a fidolike connection via the internet, but in any case the nodelist based data should be directly used for the dial attempt and the (possible) authentication of a direct session using another carrier. So the transfer of data via FTP (direct connection, but completely independant of any nodelist data) or Email based methods (just delivering something to a mailbox) are not fido-like in the direct sense of FIP. The Nodelist: For this connection one data is required in any case: The replacement for the phone-number is the ip-nummber, i.e. 194.231.142.17. Furthermore the internet utilizes the DNS (Domain Name Service) for a more mnemonic presentation (FQDN, Fully Qualified Domain Name) of the same system, i.e. fido.nrh.de. The use of DNS gives additional advantages: - load balancing between several computers for the same service - backup against system failure But DNS has one real shortcoming: It does not fit in any way in the nowadays used nodelist format, based on FTS-5 (released 5. February 1989). This so called St.Louis-format has only one entry for a FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 3 27 Jul 1998 "connection point", which is basically defined as sequence of numbers, seperated by dashes. Other characters may not be used in this field, as several (older) programs can not handle other contents. The ip-number normally contains points in place of dashes, but that conversion would only be a small problem for actual suppor- ted software. Older programs cannot see the difference between a phone number and an ip-number in this field, so they have to examine the flag field for this differentiation. This leaves room for any twit-sysop, to dial an ip-number with his modem, which is at least annoying for the opponent side of the connection and may cost some bucks of dollar for the unexperienced sysop. But there is a solution: Not one system using the nodelist can dial a number without a dial translation table, as the data in the nodelist is normally undiable by itself. So the utilization of an unused country code gives room for suppression of dial attempts on ip-numbers by conventional pstn users. The selection of the country code "000" in Z2 was taken after some discussion, as this prefix is an emergency code in some countries. But any other prefix is or may be used for legal country codes at a given time and only under very rare circum- stances (the sysop twit with a dial translation enabling this number) a call would by made by a modem. Another solution is defining another field for the ip-address, which is possible by itself, as older software would in no case use it for a connection. - Flag field: any content may be possible here, but some programs only take care of the first 32-64 characters of it (and we need this room later, as you will see :). - Location field: it normaly gives information about the geo- graphical position of the individual node, which is redundant to the phone number. But ip-numbers are not geographically oriented and and the fqdn may be any sequence of characters. - System name field: it serves sometimes as an additional "human readable flag extension" and sometimes shows the "hidden ego" of the sysop. The usage of any of these three fields leaves room for another intention: Definition of a "combined entry", which includes one ip connectivity and one conventional in a single entry in the nodelist. Furthermore all may carry either characters or numbers, so ip numbers or FQDN may be used to the actual FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 4 27 Jul 1998 sysops intention. Just the locally used nodelist compiler has to know, which field to use for the preparation of ip connections. As shown above, the system name field would be the logical decision under technical aspects, as it serves the least significant part of information of these three, while on the other hand the FQDN may be defined in a wide range (something like "mybbs.mydomain.org"). There surely are other solutions for the nodelist problem: 1. Define a completely new nodelist structure, which contains any valuable information about all connectivity variants of a given node. This might be a future project, but when will this future become reality? 2. utilize pure internet techniques for ip-connectivity, i.e. fidonet.net in eastern europe. This method is nearly completely independant from nodelist data, except that the address presen- tation f3000.n2.z2.fidonet.net looks like the addressing schedule for gateways in the fidonet.org domain. After 5 months of discussion in IP_CONNECT several proposals were defined (part 3). The next part will contain an exerpt about actual used protocols for FIP. The author: Netmail : 2:2446/301 aka 2:2/3000 Email : lbehet@nrh.de Apr. 1991: gets member of FidoNet May 1993: Hub for the area of Kleve, Germany (near the dutch border) Jan. 1997: Host for Net 2:2446 Jun. 1997: utilization of ip-connections for Fidonet Sep. 1997: First ip-node 2:2/3000 in Z2 Jul. 1998: FIP-site: http://home.nrh.de/~lbehet/fido/ , includes ip-nodelist, information, software Legal information: Copyright 1998 by Lothar Behet This series of articles may be distributed freely within the fidonet community. The distribution (partially or complete) on digital or printed media without explicit authorization of the author is prohibited. ### 30 ### ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 5 27 Jul 1998 FidoNet over IP, Part 2: What do I need for it? Copyright 1998 by Lothar Behet FidoNet over IP - What's that? Beside the direct transfer of any data via FTP (File Transfer Protocol) or Email, the internet supports the tunneling of protocol data, based on other structures, in ip-packets. This is used by FIP to establish a direct, password-secured connection between any two nodes with the internet as alter- native carrier. Only for the time of this connection both nodes need to be hooked up to the internet. Depending on the actual implementation, the data may be transfered by a normal mailer or an especially for ip-transfer designed program, whereas (in future) nodelist contents will be used directly for dialing and authentication purposes. Available Programs 1. BinkD BinkD is a pure ip-mailer, which uses the known Binkley style out- bound and expands conventional systems by an internet based access. BinkP is the publicly available protocol specification (default port 24554), which is implemented in other programs (i.e. Argus, BBBS) in the meantime. BinkD is at this moment of writing available for FreeBSD, Linux, OS/2, Windows 95 and Windows NT as well as sourcecode. 2. Vmodem and other device drivers Vmodem is a "Virtual MODEM" (comparable to cfos for ISDN cards), which emulates a comport for conventional programs. It is part of Ray Gwinn's SIO device driver package for OS/2. Beside its own Vmodem protocol (default port 3141), telnet sessions (default port 23) are possible. RL-Fossil represents a similar implementation for DOS or single DOS-tasks running in another multi-tasking environment. 3. ifcico ifcico is a fidonet mailer for *nix operating systems (default port 60179). Beside modem connectivity it naturally supports data transfer via ip. The default port is 60179, but with an additional TX-patch it may utilize Telnet sessions (default port 60177). 4. Telnet Telnet is originally a terminal program, as it may be used for internet based access to a mailbox. Via the default port 23, FTN-compatible sessions may be handled. 5. Other possibilities FTP and Email-based proceedings are not FIP in direct sense, but FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 6 27 Jul 1998 they can save some money on long distance transfers in any way. Features and advantages of FIP Basically anybody can utilize FIP, as long as he has any kind of access to the internet. The only condition is, that both opponents :) are actually hooked up (even as dial-in) to the internet, as long as the connection exists. A frequently called system may think of an steady connection to the internet. The available bandwidth for data transfer can normally not be calculated, as it relies on the smallest one in any given part of the actual connection. With nowadays used multitasking operating systems, FIP may the used in parallel to any other utilization of the internet (surfing, chatting, ...), without requiring another dial attempt in opposit to conventional usage. (In-)Compatibilities within FidoNet-over-IP - BinkD as pure mailer conforming to the BinkP-specification can only connect to opponets with the same protocol. It's main usage is as additional task for IP to existing other mailers, as it uses the widely spread binkley style outbound structure. - Vmodem is unhappily only available as device driver for OS/2, but has there the advantage of easy implementation for nearly any communication program, including a wide range of conven- tional mailers. The installation just requires the selection of an appropriate (virtual) comport. - ifcico is only available for unix-style operating systems, but with the additional TX-patch may connect to any other system via the telnet-protocol. - Telnet is supported on nearly any platform (including rlfossil for DOS), but may raise some problems depending on the individual installation. - All of these rely on an existing TCP/IP-stack, which is sometimes integral part of the operating system (*nix, OS/2 since Warp3 Connect, Windows 95, Windows NT). For DOS and Windwos 3.x addi- tional drivers are available. Sources and availability: For an actual compilation of sources, downloads and other information, just take a look on http://home.nrh.de/~lbehet/fido/ (The site is bi-lingual (english/german) at this moment, but volunteer translators are already busy :) FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 7 27 Jul 1998 Testing FIP all around the world: Beside connections to the authors system (fido.nrh.de at 194.231.142.17) with BinkP:24554, Telnet:23 and Vmodem:3141, the above mentioned website offers an ip nodelist, which is continuously growing :) Legal information: Copyright 1998 by Lothar Behet This series of articles may be distributed freely within the fidonet community. The distribution (partially or complete) on digital or printed media without explicit authorization of the author is prohibited. ### 30 ### ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 8 27 Jul 1998 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= Dear Editorbeing, This article is submitted by Doc Logger(163/110) who has spent the week remembering why he hates programming. The cause of this renewed realization was an attempt to simulate the collapse of a galactic cluster. Roll da flic, Zorch... Dear Reverend Visage, This has been a relatively slow week in Fidoland. Bob Kohl remained true to type and made his exit as RC10 into a singularly petulant and ugly event. In his last gasps, he offered to post an archive of messages with Satti to demonstrate god knows what. What is amusing about Kohl's threat is that he seems to be one of the few labouring under the delusion that Satti's incompetence would be a revelation or a surprise. The discussions in the ZIC echo have been interesting. Just when we thought we'd smoked most of the skunks out of the woodpile, we were treated to a series of messages from Darryl Gregorash who first asserted that he "owned" his net's nodesegment, and then heard him exclaim that he would cast a vote against the expressed wishes of his net if he thought they were wrong. What makes Gregorash even more remarkable is that while espousing his totalist vision, he took time to make some jingoistic comments about Ward Dossche. It is a pity that the threat of democracy causes these cretins to mischaracterize Dossche. If Gregorash was keen to find a fascist prototype, he need look no further than some of his own posts concerning the Divine Right of *Cs. In North America, we were treated to the spectacle of a deranged gunman barging into the U.S. capital building and killing a couple of police officers. What amazed me was that while five channels of live coverage were devoted to the incident, a raft of talking heads were asking the question: "Why does such a thing happen?" It seems none of them guessed that such things happen exactly because the insane and the deranged know that their acts will get five channels of live coverage. Unfortunately, the next person with a few screws loose will have to outdo the previous attempts. Perhaps as a public service, the cable companies could offer a special "psycho" channel where the exploits of the insane are regularly featured. I know, I know, it can be argued that the Golf channel already fulfills this mandate. FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 9 27 Jul 1998 My reading list this week was prompted by a suggestion by Don Cox (Canada's finest eccentric) who thought that I would be enthralled by a book on cosmology making a case for anthropic destiny. (For Dallas, "cosmology" is the study of the formation of the universe, and "anthropic" is that which involves the study of life.) Since the book that Cox suggested was full of absurdities, I read several others to ascertain whether physicists hadn't gotten any smarter since the last time I was tortured by their tedious lectures. The major flaw that I can see in most of the writings was one of causation. They suggest that if the original universe had been a tiny bit more dense, if there hadn't been a slight granularity to the initial primordial soup, and if magnetic monopoles hadn't been consumed; that life as we know it couldn't have existed. This form of argument is akin to saying that 100% of the people who ride school buses will eventually die. There is no causal link(in general) between death and riding school buses, but experimentally it can be ascertained that one event will follow the other with scientific certitude. Where the physics weenies leave me behind is where they assert that since the Big Bang required such narrow parameters in which to eventually express a world that would involve humans, then there *had* to be a Plan of Divine nature. Anyone who turns up an ace and a king during a game of Blackjack could make the claim to Divine intervention but really, they are simply the beneficiary of random probability. If cosmology was so Divinely determined, why was a world created where you couldn't x-ray an elephant? I must go Visage, Moravsik's Dr. Strangelove finger is twitching to type the word "budfoon" in characterization of this week's article and I wouldn't want to disappoint the lil' tater-tot. Since you weren't around, I let Walloonetta accompany my teenmonsters to the Warped Tour concert in Montreal last night. You'll be sooo pleased to know that the best song of the night was "Cook Your Father" by a band called "Dahmer's Diner." Regards, Doc Logger, Furlang Island, South Pacific ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 10 27 Jul 1998 ================================================================= NOTICES ================================================================= Future History 5 Oct 1998 29th Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus". 14 Sep 1998 Start of International BBS Week [thru 20 Sep 98]. 22 Sep 1998 First anniversary of the FidoNews domain of www.fidonews.org. 23 Nov 1998 35th Anniversary of Doctor Who. 1 Dec 1998 Fifteenth Anniversary of release of Fido version 1 by Tom Jennings. 16 Feb 1999 13th Anniversary of the introduction of EchoMail by Jeff Rush. 12 May 1999 12th Anniversary of Fido Operations in Zone 4; 10th Anniversary of the creation of FidoNet Zone 4. 24 Jul 1999 XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99]. 9 Jun 1999 Tenth Anniversary of the adoption of FidoNet Policy 4.07. 31 Dec 1999 Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed. 1 Jan 2000 The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec. 1 Jun 2000 EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens. 15 Sep 2000 Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens. 1 Jan 2001 This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E. -- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-30 Page 11 27 Jul 1998 ================================================================= FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ================================================================= FidoNews PGP Public-Key Listing [this must be copied out to a file starting at column 1 or it won't process under PGP as a valid public-key] -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Democracy Requires A Free And Uncensored Press. mQENAzUDQfgAAAEH/2cZjrzKxinfyk1NRYy2D78JEU8jFx6fvGyisnN2SX+QwRrA AxBbsMuseM3x60SFhHV7r93CxKWJylPCBJKvDazmWwy+vgBr+ZJvl7Ypj/IB4pWS Apngg8cmDH1h5d0VeYNORsuJ2udHZYRezkZ0eeJlaOsJCj5Xu0QImSp++VU/0oB1 6XRoNPy548xq8Qles1pLC8Kw7HU7Vff1WeaU3mPPQeaGZqn2qSAu5t6Z0Bhm27Pq zNaJ+JWNHaLCHlwrRHV+p9bCdfl3u303OxKPne0cSpxfe+gQBTlVta7B14ssgnzQ mnBFhvKWgM7LT105YD3EcWW9IJE1ByNHwo25a3EABRG0D0ZpZG9OZXdzIEVkaXRv cokAlQMFEDUKMDDrSgiY3KJNQQEB16YD/2tYVRC+dxghA/OwIWNH20GvQXw1zgfv cB6r8gYHcczTCqGu5qbjDOTftoBXY9vI3/CZNsSbvp0ibQinpN6zSgyy2+4wwPbu db/VnjXwBByq7ygTpNwQBMsYjs+iyndwTnR90dH3FewsveBCzeqjmP0Y/PJliElw zEmGKxoFr1SM =G82W -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- File-request FNEWSKEY from 1:1/23 [1:205/1701] or download it from IKVHFoT! 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