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  • "Not in Area File" errors

    From Deucе@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Mon Dec 1 10:55:14 2025
    open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1012

    I'm started getting a lot of bad packets with "not in Area File" recently, but my areas.bbs file looks good:

    ```
    2025-12-01 18:47:06 Bad packet detected (reason: security): /home/bbsdev/sbbs/fido/inbsecure/692dc945.pkt
    2025-12-01 18:47:06 Importing /home/bbsdev/sbbs/fido/inbsecure/692dc9f0.pkt (type 2+, 3.0KB) from 1:103/0 to 1:103/1
    2025-12-01 18:47:06 BBS_ADS: Security violation - 1:103/0 not in Area File
    ```

    ```
    bbsdev@bbsdev:~/sbbs/fido/inbsecure % grep BBS_ADS ../../data/areas.bbs FIDO-BBS_ADS BBS_ADS 1:103/0
    ```
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  • From Deucе@1:103/705 to GitLab issue in main/sbbs on Mon Dec 1 10:57:49 2025
    close https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/1012
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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1:103/705 to Deuc¿ on Mon Dec 1 19:10:53 2025
    Re: "Not in Area File" errors
    By: Deuc¨ to GitLab note in main/sbbs on Mon Dec 01 2025 10:57 am

    Ah, looks like my uplink has changed their echomail source, and I needed an entry in echocfg.ini to match the new node number.

    Are you talking about 218/700? I did add 103/0 to my list of AKAs in scfg, but that shouldn't have changed anything regarding mail routing.

    Oh, unless binkit is matching 103/0 instead of 218/700?

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  • From Deuce@1:103/705 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Dec 2 05:26:09 2025
    Re: "Not in Area File" errors
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to Deuc¨ on Mon Dec 01 2025 07:10 pm

    Are you talking about 218/700? I did add 103/0 to my list of AKAs in scfg, but that shouldn't have changed anything regarding mail routing.

    Oh, unless binkit is matching 103/0 instead of 218/700?

    Yeah, BinkIT uses the "closest" AKA as the source, so they all started coming from 1:103/0 instead of 1:218/700. All fixed here now, but I haven't looked at the other two yet... this is the one I'm paying close attention to FTN stuff on for the moment.

    We can poke Digital Man here and I'm sure he'll update his config and the whole net will be covered. ;)
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  • From Deuce@1:103/705 to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Dec 2 05:39:03 2025
    Re: "Not in Area File" errors
    By: Deuce to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Dec 02 2025 05:26 am

    Yeah, BinkIT uses the "closest" AKA as the source, so they all started coming from 1:103/0 instead of 1:218/700. All fixed here now, but I haven't looked at the other two yet... this is the one I'm paying close attention to FTN stuff on for the moment.

    Looks like there was no problem on Whiskey Lover's since it doesn't use a packet password. The other two are updated and working now as well. I told Digital Man about the changes in IRC, so should be fixed soon.
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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Deuce on Tue Dec 2 00:01:42 2025
    Re: "Not in Area File" errors
    By: Deuce to poindexter FORTRAN on Tue Dec 02 2025 05:26 am

    We can poke Digital Man here and I'm sure he'll update his config and the whole net will be covered. ;)

    I don't seem to be having an issue (no security violations being logged) here. --
    digital man (rob)

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1:103/705 to Deuce on Tue Dec 2 07:13:44 2025
    Subject: Re: "Not in Area File" errors
    @MSGID: <692F0228.383.dove.syncsysops@realitycheckbbs.org>
    @REPLY: <692E7871.22458.dove-syncops@bbsdev.net>
    @TZ: 41e0
    Deuce wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    Yeah, BinkIT uses the "closest" AKA as the source, so they all started coming from 1:103/0 instead of 1:218/700. All fixed here now, but I haven't looked at the other two yet... this is the one I'm paying close attention to FTN stuff on for the moment.

    I took 103/0 out of my AKAs for the time being - the only reason I added
    it in was one of the nodelist police noticed it. :)



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