Thursday October 22 2020 01:01, from Jeff Smith -> All:
JS> I have seen questions and differing thoughts on the use of certain JS> nodelist flags and their preferred or correct usage. A couple such JS> flags are INA and IBN and how each should be used to specify nodelist JS> connectivity data. In looking through the current nodelist I see those JS> two flags used in a couple different ways. JS> Thoughts on which and why?
INA flag tells you that the node supports IP connection and the address is provided. There used to be IP flag for the same reason but because the address itself was optional it is deprecated in favor of INA.
Here, the IBN flag specifies that the Binkp protocol is supported and optionally a non-standard port can be specified. Other supported protocol can be IFC (RAW ifcico), IFT, ITN, or IVM protocol.
It is that the IBN flag cannot include the host address itself, that is why we usually have a combination of INA+IBN in the nodelist.
