= Сообщение: 1695 из 2391 ================================ RU.FIDONET.DIGEST = От : Vladimir Fyodorov 2:6035/3.1 16 Feb 21 13:38:34 Кому : All 16 Feb 21 13:38:34 Тема : FIDONEWS: Немного статистики относительно PING-роботов FGHI : area://RU.FIDONET.DIGEST?msgid=2:6035/3.1+602ba26d = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP866 ================================== Ответ: area://RU.FIDONET.DIGEST?msgid=2:6035/3.1+6073df84 ==============================================================================
> Michiel van der Vlist "пропинговал" узлы нодлиста, у которых указан флаг > PING, и поделился результатами и некоторыми размышлениями по этому поводу > в Фидоньюсе. Всего был протестирован 31 узел, 7 из которых на PING не > ответили.
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A PING robot survey By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555
Recently there was a discussion about supporting the @REPLYTO kludge in PING robots. It did not convince me that supporting this non standard kludge in PING robots is a good idea, but it did inspire me to do a survey of what is around in Fidonet regarding PING.
For starters: PING is not all that popular. Nodelist.043 shows 57 nodes flying the PING flag, but if AKAs are removed only 31 unique sytems remain. There are two systems flying the PING flag in the Z2 pointlist.
So my first step was to query all these 31 systems for a ping res- ponse. This took a bit of patience because even in the age of Fido over IP, some take up to a day to respond. Of the 31 tested, 7 did not respond. Of these 7, 4 nodes appear to be down. The other 2 have the node up and accepting calls but there seems to be no active PING robot. 1 is a Pvt node who's status I was unable to determine.
The 2 systems in the pointlist that fly a PING flags are responding.
So far so good.
The next step was to test if the PING nodes always answer from the address that is pinged. Many do. E.g. 2:280/0 answers from 2:28/0 and 2:280/5555 answers from 2:280/5555. But not all do. 1:18/0 answers from the "main AKA" 1:3634/12. Of course I could only test systems that actually have and are listed with more than one AKA in the nodelist.
The third and last step was to try to determine if the systems that support PING also support TRACE. Ik knew that not all do, but nobody ever bothered to check it. So what I did is send a PING to a node that has a PING robot up and running and route it through the node to be tested. If the ping returns and the node or one of its AKAs is in the VIA's then I knew for sure that it had passed the node under test. 18 of the nodes supporting PING also support TRACE. 4 nodes support PING but do not support TRACE. For 2 nodes I was unable to determine if they support TRACE or not.
So here are the results:
Node nr. Reply by/ Always answers from addressed AKA Status | Supports Trace | | AKAs | | |
1:19/10 Mailguard Y 1:229/101 Diskshop Tracker N Y 1:12/0 1:12/1
1:320/119 Ping Service Y Y 1:320/0 1:142/0
1:320/219 Ping Service Y Y 1:1/19
1:320/319 Ping Service Y Y 1:1/119
1:3634/12 SBBSecho N N 1:1/120 18/0 3634/0 3634/12
2:221/1 O/T-Track N Y 2:221/0 2:221/360
2:221/6 Pong @ hpt Y
2:2432/200 Pvt, No Reply
2:2432/920 Node Down
2:2448/1021 PING * N 2:2448/0
2:280/464 Fmail Y Y
2:280/464.112 Fmail Y Y
2:280/5555 Fmail Y Y
2:280/5555.1 Fmail Y Y
2:292/854 Lord of the Ping N N 2:2/0 2/1000 2/1002 292/80
2:292/8125 Fmail Y Y 2:29/0
2:460/58 Crazy Mail Robot Y
2:463/68 Craxy Mail Robot Y
2:461/79 Node Down
2:463/2223 Ping Robot 2:46/200
2:4642/7 Node Down
2:5019/40 Netmail Daemon N Y 2:5019/0
2:5020/545 ping.pl Y
2:5020/601 Node Down
2:5020/846 Ping-Pong Robot
2:5020/1042 RNTrack Y
2:5020/2065 FTrack
2:5021/46 Candle Y Y 2:5021/0
2:5053/58 Ping Down
2:5080/102 Ping Down
2:6035/3 Ping Robot Y
3:712/848 Mailer-daemon Y Y 3:3/0 3:712/0
* 2:2448/0 is an AKA of 2:2448/1021. But only 2:2448/1021 flies the PING flag and answers on a PING request. =============================================================================
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