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Table of Contents
1. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 1
Run your BBS in a virtual homelab ........................ 1
2. FTSC INFORMATION ......................................... 3
3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 5
List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 5
4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 8
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 8
5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 9
6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 16
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 16
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 17
7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 19
How to Submit an Article ................................. 19
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 21

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GENERAL ARTICLES =================================================================

Run your BBS in a virtual homelab
Kurt Weiske - 1:218/700


Are you still running your BBS on a dusty old PC in the corner?

With a second-hand PC (or that PC you have laying around after a
desktop upgrade) you could set up a virtual homelab, letting you play
with new operating systems, new applications, and give that BBS a new
home.

What's a virtual homelab? By using a PC and a hypervisor, you could
run several virtual systems on one physical server, including your
BBS.

Hypervisors are operating systems that let you run other systems,
virtually, on top of the hypervisor. VMWare ESXi, qemu, xcp-ng and
others are hypervisors in common use running homelabs. Since the
underlying OS isn't meant to do much except run virtual machines,
bare-metal hypervisors don't use many resources, freeing resources for
the virtual machines running inside of it.

Want to block ads on all of your devices at home? Play with home
automation? serve your videos and music to smart TVs? Back up your
desktop? Make a quick backup of the BBS before a major upgrade? You
can do all of this and more with a virtual homelab.

I set up a homelab to test out new applications outside of work, got
familiar with the tech, saw the advantages and thought, why not run
the BBS as a guest VM and get rid of the BBS box?

I'm using Proxmox, a bare-metal hypervisor based on Debian Linux, kvm
and qemu. It runs on most any hardware that runs Debian, unlike
VMWare's pickier products. It's free and community supported, but with
a paid support option.

I'm using the same hardware that used to run just the BBS, but with
Proxmox I have multiple virtual machines running on the same system,
plus the ability to do "snapshot" backups, real-time backups of the
file system while the system is running. Those are very handy when
doing an upgrade that could break your system.

(full disclosure: you'll need to plan for enough RAM and disk to host
the virtual servers, which could mean needing more of both. I'm
running 16GB of RAM and a 1TB hard disk, which is more than enough for
a small lab.)

If you want to dabble in virtual machines without making the move to a
full bare-metal lab, you could try out Oracle Virtualbox, Qemu or
VMWare Player on your desktop PC and run a couple of virtual instances
there.

With a homelab you can create a DOS-appropriate environment for that
old DOS BBS, emulate common network and video hardware that had wide
support with older OSes, run 32-bit OSes on modern hardware, or run
multiple systems all with the same physical footprint.

Long gone is the homelab I had in the 2000s, with one hardware
firewall, a BBS box, web/mail server, and test Windows box - each a
physical server taking up a good part of my garage - and each using electricity.





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FTSC INFORMATION =================================================================

The challenge period has now expired for the 2023 FTSC Standing Member Election.

18 ballots were received from 17 RCs in 3 Zones. 2 ballots were
rejected as detailed below.

The final results are below:

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| Name | Node nr | Yes| No |
|----------------------|-------------|----|----|
| Andrew Leary | 1:320/219 | 16 | |
| Carol Shenkenberger | 1:275/100 | 7 | 9 |
| Nick Andre | 1:229/426 | 12 | 4 |
| Deon George | 3:633/509 | 12 | 4 |
| Maurice Kinal | 1:153/7001 | 8 | 8 |
| mark lewis | 1:3634/12 | 9 | 7 |
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Ballots Received
----------------

RC33
RC24
RC25
RC20
RC28
RC29
RC54
RC10
RC19
RC40
RC56
RC50
RC12
RC13
RC17
RC34
RC33 (Revised)
RC11

Ballots Rejected/Reason
-----------------------

RC25 - Not listed as RC in NODELIST.027 as issued by Z2C
RC33 - Second (Revised) ballot rejected

Candidates Andrew Leary, Nick Andre, Deon George, and Mark Lewis
received more Yes than No votes, and therefore will be accepted as
Standing Members of the FTSC for a 2 year term, effective on
27 March 2023. Their terms will expire on 27 March 2025.

Regards,

Andrew Leary
FTSC Election Coordinator

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LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES =================================================================

List of IPv6 nodes
By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555

Updated 1 April 2023


Node Nr. Sysop Type Provider Remark

1 2:280/464 Wilfred van Velzen Native Freedom f
2 2:280/5003 Kees van Eeten Native KPN f
3 2:5019/40 Konstantin Kuzov T-6in4 he.net f
4 2:280/5555 Michiel van der Vlist Native Ziggo f
5 1:320/219 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
6 2:221/1 Tommi Koivula Native Elisa f
7 2:221/6 Tommi Koivula Native OVH
8 2:5030/257 Vova Uralsky Native PCextreme
9 1:154/10 Nicholas Boel Native Spectrum f
10 2:203/0 Bjorn Felten T-6in4 he.net
11 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native KPN f INO4
12 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6in4 he.net f
13 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov T-6in4 he.net f
14 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
15 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0
16 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek Native CZ-IJC-20071015
17 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
18 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native AusNetServers f
19 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
20 3:770/1 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
21 3:770/100 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
22 2:5053/58 Alexander Kruglikov Native TTK-Volga f
23 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
24 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh Native Internode
25 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter Native DE-NETCUP f
26 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
27 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
28 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
29 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
30 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
31 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
32 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native OVH
33 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
34 2:240/5853 Philipp Giebel Native Hetzner
35 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
36 2:240/5413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
37 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net
38 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
39 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Amazon.com
40 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
41 2:5020/1042 Michael Dukelsky Native FirstByte
42 2:5095/0 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
43 2:5095/20 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
44 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
45 2:467/239 Mykhailo Kapitanov Native Vultr f
46 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
47 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0 f
48 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native KPN
49 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
50 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
51 2:5020/2123 Anton Samsonov T-6in4 TUNNEL-BROKER-NET-0
52 2:5020/2332 Andrey Ignatov Native ru.rtk
53 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net f
54 2:5005/77 Valery Lutoshkin T-6in4 NTS f
55 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
56 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko Native ER-Telecom f
57 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native SAGE-SU-V6
58 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus
59 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny T-6in4 he.net f
60 2:5053/400 Alexander Kruglikov Native FirstVDS f
61 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
62 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
63 2:240/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
64 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native WEDOS
65 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
66 1:102/127 Bradley Thornton Native Hetzner
67 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native OVH
68 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US f
69 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin Native IHC-NET
70 2:5030/1520 Andrey Geyko T-6in4 he.net f
71 1:229/664 Jay Harris Native Rogers f
72 2:280/2030 Martien Korenblom Native Transip
73 3:633/509 Deon George Native Telstra
74 2:5020/4441 Yuri Myakotin Native SOVINTEL
75 1:320/319 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
76 2:240/5824 Anna Christina Nass Native DTAG f
77 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f INO4
78 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN
79 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
80 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
81 2:301/113 Alisha Stutz T-6in4 he.net
82 1:134/100 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 Route48 f DOWN
83 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 Route48 f INO4 DOWN
84 1:134/102 Shelley Petersen T-6in4 Route48 f INO4 DOWN
85 1:134/103 Gordon Muirhead T-6in4 Route48 f DOWN
86 1:134/301 Brandon Moore T-6in4 Route48 f INO4 DOWN
87 1:134/302 Adam Park T-6in4 Route48 f 6DWN
88 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms
89 1:218/840 Morgan Collins Native Linode
90 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin Native HURRICANE-IPV6-24
91 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Vodafone
92 2:280/2040 Leo Barnhoorn Native KPN f
93 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
94 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4
95 1:266/420 Scott Street Native Comcast OO HOLD
96 1:218/850 John Nicpon Native LINODE-US
97 1:142/104 Clive Reuben Native SNETFCC-1 6DWN
98 2:301/1 Alisha Stutz Native CH-DATAWIRE
99 3:633/267 Andrew Clarke Native Widebandnetv6 6DWN
100 2:5035/63 Vladimir Goncharov Native RFEIV6NET
101 2:5020/290 Andrew Kolchoogin T-6in4 he.net
102 1:218/401 James Downs Native Scaleway PM *1
103 1:214/22 Ray Quinn T-6in4 he.net
104 2:5030/49 Sergey Myasoedov Native FR-VIRTUA-SYSTEMS
105 1:218/820 Ryan Fantus Native DIGITALOCEAN


T-6in4 Static 6in4
T-AYIY Dynamic AYIYA
T-6to4 6to4
T-6RD 6RD

Remarks:

f Has a ::f1d0:<zone>:<net>:<node> style host address.
(zone, net, node in decimal notation)
IO Incoming only (Node can not make outgoing IPv6 calls)
OO Outgoing only (Node can not accept incoming IPv6 calls).
INO4 No IPv4 (Node can not accept incoming IPv4 calls).
PO4 Prefers Out on 4 (Node can make outgoing IPv6 calls,
but is configured to try IPv4 first)
6DWN The IPv6 connectivity of this node is temporarely down.
NO6 The node no longer presents an IPv6 address in the nodelist
and will soon be removed from this list.
HOLD The node is temporarely off-line. Mail may be routed.
DOWN This node is Down for both IPv4 and IPv6 and will be
removed from this list if the condition pertains.
PM Prospective Member. The node has demonstrated IPv6
capability but is not listed or does not advertise an
IPv6 address in the Fidonet nodelist yet.

PM *1 lounge.egontech.com

Notes:

To make an IPv6 connection to a node connected via 6to4 tunneling
one may have to force the mailer into IPv6 (-6 option in binkd's
node config for binkd up to 1.1a-96, -64 option for binkd 1.1a-97
and up when compiled with AF_FORCE=1). If the destination address
is a 6to4 tunnel address (2002::/16) many OSs default to IPv4 if
an IPv4 address is present.


Submitted on day 092

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SPECIAL INTEREST =================================================================

Last week's statistics from the Fidoweb
By EchoTime @ 2:203/0

(Some nets may have lost their last
digit for technical reasons)

pkt (toss-toss) msg (write-toss)
nodes mean dev no mean dev no

221/* 0.9m 0.4m 644 4.7h 7.1h 643
280/* 0.7m 0.4m 855 3.7h 5.4h 855
292/* 2.6m 1.4m 7 3.3h 3.8h 6
320/* 2.4m 1.4m 158 3.4h 9.6h 158

Sigma 0.9m 0.8m 1664 4.0h 6.6h 1662

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Nodelist Stats

Input nodelist nodelist.090
size 167.0kb
date 2023-03-31

The nodelist has 910 nodes in it
and a total of 1325 non-comment entries

including 4 zones
33 regions
167 hosts
59 hubs
admin overhead 263 ( 28.90 %)

and 93 private nodes
32 nodes down
27 nodes on hold
off line overhead 152 ( 16.70 %)


Speed summary:

>9600 = 24 ( 2.64 %)
9600 = 154 ( 16.92 %)
(HST = 2 or 1.30 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
(V32 = 69 or 44.81 %)
(V32B = 0 or 0.00 %)
(V34 = 65 or 42.21 %)
(V42 = 63 or 40.91 %)
(V42B = 0 or 0.00 %)
2400 = 1 ( 0.11 %)
1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
300 = 731 ( 80.33 %)

ISDN = 21 ( 2.31 %)

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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
IBN Binkp 771 ( 84.73 %) ----------------------------------
IFC Raw ifcico 76 ( 8.35 %) ----------------------------------
IFT FTP 57 ( 6.26 %) ----------------------------------
ITN Telnet 162 ( 17.80 %) ----------------------------------
IVM Vmodem 15 ( 1.65 %) ----------------------------------
IP Other 1 ( 0.11 %) ----------------------------------
INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.55 %) ----------------------------------

CrashMail capable = 829 ( 91.10 %)
MailOnly nodes = 263 ( 28.90 %)
Listed-only nodes = 17 ( 1.87 %)



[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/2]
[ NetStats 3.8 2014-11-23]

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