The F I D O N E W S Volume 42, Number 23 09 Jun 2025 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. THE FIDONET LEGACY ....................................... 2
Fidonet is not a democracy ............................... 2
3. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 3
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 3
4. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 4
List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 4
5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 7
6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 15
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 15
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 16
7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 18
How to Submit an Article ................................. 18
Credits, Legal Information, Availability ................. 20

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate
because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he
can understand.

-- Bertrand Russell

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THE FIDONET LEGACY =================================================================

Fidonet is not a democracy
Bj”rn Felten, 2:2/2

Democracy is an almost perfect system of governance, if executed
properly. Unfortunately, there are few examples of this. The most
crucial factor is that the electorate must be adequately educated,
so that they can make informed decisions. They must know what and
whom they are voting for.

A network is a technical entity, and as such, every decision must
be made by individuals who possess the necessary knowledge. That means
it has to be a technocracy.

Technocracy, in the context of governance, refers to a system where decision-making is guided by individuals with specialised technical
expertise rather than elected politicians.

It is essentially a form of government where experts in specific
fields provide advice and guidance on policy matters, leading to
decisions that, at least in theory, are based on rational and data-
driven principles rather than political considerations.

In Fidonet, we use Coordinators to ensure its smooth operation.
Only they know what it takes. Really know. That is why our policy
makes sure that only Coordinators can make the proper decisions about
how to operate it.

This, of course, is how it works in a perfect world, with perfect
people who always follow the rules. Unfortunately, this has not always
been the case. In the next episode, you will learn more about how
power- and money-greed sometimes have had a detrimental impact on our
network.


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

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

Updated 7 June 2025


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/Delta 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 1:154/10 Nicholas Boel Native Spectrum f
9 2:203/2 Bjorn Felten Native Bahnhof
10 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native KPN f INO4
11 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6in4 he.net f
12 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov T-6in4 he.net f 6DWN
13 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
14 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6in4 IP4Market
15 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek Native CZ-IJC-20071015
16 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
17 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native AusNetServers f
18 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
19 3:770/1 Paul Hayton Native VETTA
20 3:770/100 Paul Hayton Native VETTA
21 2:5053/58 Alexander Kruglikov Native ER-Telecom f
22 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
23 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh Native Internode
24 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter Native DE-NETCUP f
25 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
26 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
27 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
28 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
29 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native Layer7 Networks
30 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
31 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
32 2:240/5413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
33 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
34 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
35 2:5020/1042 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
36 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
37 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
38 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 IP4Market f
39 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native KPN
40 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
41 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
42 2:5101/1 Andrey Ignatov Native HETZNER
43 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net f
44 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f 6DWN
45 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko Native ER-Telecom f
46 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native SAGE-SU-V6
47 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus
48 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny T-6in4 he.net f
49 2:5053/400 Alexander Kruglikov Native FirstVDS f
50 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
51 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
52 2:240/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
53 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native VEDOS
54 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
55 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native OVH
56 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US f
57 1:229/664 Jay Harris Native Rogers f
58 2:280/2030 Martien Korenblom Native Transip
59 3:633/509 Deon George Native Telstra
60 2:5020/4441 Yuri Myakotin Native SOVINTEL
61 1:320/319 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
62 2:240/5824 Anna Christina Nass Native DTAG f
63 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f INO4
64 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN 6DWN
65 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
66 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
67 2:301/113 Alisha Stutz T-6in4 he.net
68 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms
69 1:218/840 Morgan Collins Native Linode
70 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin Native HURRICANE-IPV6-24
71 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Vodafone
72 2:280/2040 Leo Barnhoorn Native KPN f
73 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
74 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4
75 1:218/850 John Nicpon Native LINODE-US
76 2:301/1 Alisha Stutz Native CH-DATAWIRE
77 2:5035/63 Vladimir Goncharov Native RFEIV6NET
78 2:5020/290 Andrew Kolchoogin T-6in4 he.net
79 2:5030/49 Sergey Myasoedov Native FR-VIRTUA-SYSTEMS
80 1:218/820 Ryan Fantus Native DIGITALOCEAN 6DWN
81 1:103/705 Rob Swindell Native Spectrum f
82 1:134/303 Travis Mehrer Native Shaw Comms
83 2:5057/19 Max Vasilyev Native ER-Telecom f
84 2:5075/35 Eugene Subbotin Native RUWEB f
85 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin Native IHC
86 2:5075/128 Eugene Subbotin T-6in4 IP4Market f 6DWN
87 2:550/278 Vladislav Muschinskikh Native FirstByte
88 2:5010/278 Vladislav Muschinskikh T-6in4 he.net f
89 2:240/5411 Stephan Gebbers Native DTAG OOWN
90 2:5020/715 Alex Barinov T-6in4 he.net f
91 1:16/201 Sergey Myasoedov Native Amazon
92 1:104/117 Vitaliy Aksyonov Native LLC
93 2:5030/1340 Dmitry Afanasiev T-6in4 TUNNEL-BROKER-NET
94 2:221/360 Tommi Koivula Native Elisa f
95 2:5031/25 Alex Kazankov Native VDSINA
96 4:902/26 Fernando Toledo Native Claro
97 2:280/2050 Floris van Unen Native Azure
98 2:280/2060 Dennis Slagers Native Ziggo f
99 2:467/888 Ruslan Suleimanov T-6in4 he.net f
100 1:266/625 Scott Street Native Verizon
101 2:5020/5452 Alex Barinov T-6in4 he.net
102 2:5030/723 Alexey Khromov Native RU-AI-20240222
103 3:633/2744 Deon George Native EXETEL-AU
104 4:930/1 David Gonzalez Native EPMNET
105 3:633/267 Andrew Clarke Native widebandnetv6 OO
106 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native UA-WEBBER f


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.
Example: ::f1d0:2:280:5555 (for node 2:280/5555)
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.


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 159


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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/* 0.8m 0.3m 22 0.0h 0.0h 22
280/* 0.8m 1.8m 1237 5.4h 7.2h 1237
292/* 3.4m 1.4m 50 4.5h 3.4h 49
320/* 2.3m 1.1m 707 1.4h 8.6h 706

Sigma 1.4m 1.7m 2016 3.9h 7.8h 2014

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Nodelist Stats

Input nodelist nodelist.157
size 154.4kb
date 2025-06-06

The nodelist has 813 nodes in it
and a total of 1196 non-comment entries

including 4 zones
30 regions
157 hosts
59 hubs
admin overhead 250 ( 30.75 %)

and 84 private nodes
13 nodes down
36 nodes on hold
off line overhead 133 ( 16.36 %)


Speed summary:

>9600 = 21 ( 2.58 %)
9600 = 87 ( 10.70 %)
(HST = 2 or 2.30 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
(V32 = 51 or 58.62 %)
(V32B = 0 or 0.00 %)
(V34 = 52 or 59.77 %)
(V42 = 45 or 51.72 %)
(V42B = 0 or 0.00 %)
2400 = 1 ( 0.12 %)
1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
300 = 704 ( 86.59 %)

ISDN = 18 ( 2.21 %)

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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
IBN Binkp 696 ( 85.61 %) ----------------------------------
IFC Raw ifcico 60 ( 7.38 %) ----------------------------------
IFT FTP 33 ( 4.06 %) ----------------------------------
ITN Telnet 91 ( 11.19 %) ----------------------------------
IVM Vmodem 12 ( 1.48 %) ----------------------------------
IP Other 1 ( 0.12 %) ----------------------------------
INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.62 %) ----------------------------------

CrashMail capable = 746 ( 91.76 %)
MailOnly nodes = 244 ( 30.01 %)
Listed-only nodes = 19 ( 2.34 %)



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

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