• Fix your system

    From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Vince Coen on Mon May 2 14:54:09 2022
    Vince,

    You are dumping here hundreds of Ping/Trace-mesages for John Dovey.

    The size of the log-file documenting just your nodenumber, by mid day, was larger than a log file for a full day of everything else combined.

    Please fix this.

    If by evening it isn't fixed, you will be passworded-out at this system.

    Take care,

    \%/@rd

    --- DB4 - 20220425
    * Origin: Many Glacier ... Protect - Preserve - Conserve - Recycle (2:292/854)
  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Ward Dossche on Mon May 2 18:02:04 2022
    Hello Ward!

    Monday May 02 2022 14:54, you wrote to Vince Coen:

    Vince,

    You are dumping here hundreds of Ping/Trace-mesages for John Dovey.

    The size of the log-file documenting just your nodenumber, by mid day,
    was larger than a log file for a full day of everything else combined.

    Please fix this.

    If by evening it isn't fixed, you will be passworded-out at this
    system.

    Take care,

    Responded to in netmail.

    The sender sent to 2:250/21 that does not exist in the nodelists a ping request.

    My system should have rejected it for the same reason and kept sending routed (via 2:0/0) back to him (The message block not not report a bounced msg in any way, so the message kept going in a loop for many hours.
    It should have been stopped by my system and for that matter Ward's both for the same reason non existing address but did not, so what ever Ward uses as a mailer has a bug but so does mbse and for that matter the original poster, John!


    I have, at least for now, removed all other AKA's on my primary system other than 2:250/1 but I am not sure that is the correct solution and might even create more issues.

    The 2:25/21 system is not affected by this, in the sense it only uses the one aka (2:25/21).

    I just tried to test this using my address with Golded but there is not a function to send a ping request in it so have no idea how to do this.

    Vincent

    --- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.8/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: The Elist Maintainer (2:250/1)