Hi all.

Had an interesting one tonight

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----------------- MUTIL v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 Wed, Aug 15 2018 (loglevel 3)
+ Aug 15 19:13:01 Startup using mailin.ini
- Aug 15 19:13:01 EXEC ImportEchoMail
- Aug 15 19:13:01 EXEC FileToss
+ Aug 15 19:13:01 Process: Toss FDN/TIC Files
+ Aug 15 19:13:01 Scanning Hatches
+ Aug 15 19:13:01 Results: 0 import, 0 toss, 0 hatch, 0 bad in 0.00s
+ Aug 15 19:13:01 Process: Importing EchoMail
+ Aug 15 19:13:01 Waiting for BUSY nodes
+ Aug 15 19:14:01 Results: Cannot import. Some nodes are BUSY in 60.01s
! Aug 15 19:14:01 Status: FATAL
+ Aug 15 19:14:01 Shutdown Normal (0)

----------------- MUTIL v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 Wed, Aug 15 2018 (loglevel 3)
+ Aug 15 19:15:41 Startup using mailin.ini
- Aug 15 19:15:41 EXEC ImportEchoMail
- Aug 15 19:15:41 EXEC FileToss
+ Aug 15 19:15:41 Process: Toss FDN/TIC Files
+ Aug 15 19:15:41 Scanning Hatches
+ Aug 15 19:15:41 Results: 0 import, 0 toss, 0 hatch, 0 bad in 0.00s
+ Aug 15 19:15:41 Process: Importing EchoMail
+ Aug 15 19:15:41 Waiting for BUSY nodes
+ Aug 15 19:16:41 Results: Cannot import. Some nodes are BUSY in 60.01s
! Aug 15 19:16:41 Status: FATAL
+ Aug 15 19:16:41 Shutdown Normal (0)

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Logs had been like that since earlier in the day.

Ran a Fidopoll killbusy all command and tried again...

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----------------- MUTIL v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 Wed, Aug 15 2018 (loglevel 3)
+ Aug 15 19:45:27 Startup using mailin.ini
- Aug 15 19:45:27 EXEC ImportEchoMail
- Aug 15 19:45:27 EXEC FileToss
+ Aug 15 19:45:27 Process: Toss FDN/TIC Files
+ Aug 15 19:45:27 Scanning Hatches
+ Aug 15 19:45:27 Results: 0 import, 0 toss, 0 hatch, 0 bad in 0.03s
+ Aug 15 19:45:27 Process: Importing EchoMail
+ Aug 15 19:45:27 Waiting for BUSY nodes
- Aug 15 19:45:27 LINKS:
- Aug 15 19:45:27 Node 14 3:770/1@fidonet
- Aug 15 19:45:27 Node 15 46:3/103@agoranet
- Aug 15 19:45:27 Node 16 39:970/0@amiganet
- Aug 15 19:45:27 Node 5 24:400/1@sportnet
- Aug 15 19:45:27 Node 7 21:1/100@fsxnet
- Aug 15 19:45:27 Node 9 44:100/0@dorenet
- Aug 15 19:45:27 Node 6 21:1/10@fsxnet
! Aug 15 19:45:27 Import from c:\bbs\mystic\echomail\in\
+ Aug 15 19:45:27 Extracting 986C82E9.WE0
- Aug 15 19:45:27 unzip -oqqjC c:\bbs\mystic\echomail\in\986C82E9.WE0
*.pkt -d c:\bbs\mystic\temputil\
+ Aug 15 19:45:27 Importing 9283EB81.PKT (46:3/103 to 46:3/203)
+ Aug 15 19:45:27 Shutdown Runtime error (217)

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On the front end it looked like this

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░░▓████ ▓▄▄▄▄▓ █████ ▒▌ ▐░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░░
50 ▓
▄▄■ ▀▀▓ ▒ ░░▓▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▓▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▓ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄ ▄ ▄▄▄▄▄▄▄
▄▓█
░ mUTIL v1.12 ▄▀ ▀ ▀▀ ░ ▀
░
░ ▀ ▄▄▀ mailin.ini (2/2)

▐ Process ───────────── ─ Status ────────────────────────────── Result ────·
┌───────────────────────│─────────────────────────────────────│────────────┐
Toss FDN/TIC Files 0 import, 0 toss, 0 hatch, 0 bad DONE 0.03s
An unhandled exception occurred at $00433E62:T (46:3/103 to WORKING EAccessViolation: Access violation
$00433E62
$00428AC1
$00428505
$00427D3D
$00402603──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
> Execution of 2 processes complete

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Checked the packet and it seemed 'experimental' from another Agoranet node... removed the packet, ran fidopoll killbusy all again and success..

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+ Aug 15 19:50:00 Results: 185 echo, 0 net, 0 dupes, 0 tossed in 4.35s
+ Aug 15 19:50:00 Shutdown Normal (0)

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I checked the packet and there must be something amiss in it... [g00r00 have kept it in case you want to have a look sometime when you're about next]

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MSGID: 46:1/190@agoranet 5b73b06c
PID: CNet 3.0
Here's a shot in the dark.. multi networks on Cnet/3 for Amiga, now to sort
out the rest :D

So.. this is a test

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So Night Stalker .. for info... it seems like something may be amiss in the packet creation, and happy to filebox this one to you if it helps also.

Best, Paul

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A39 2018/04/21 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (46:3/203)

Hello,

On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 14:58:56 GMT, Night Stalker -> Avon wrote:

Wow.. Why would you be getting that error? I don't connect to you for agoranet so that stands to reason the problem is tossing from your host
to you since it wasn't returned ... seems that anyone running Synchronet is going to have problems tossing mail from ppl running Amiga BBS software. Had this problem before when I was using Synchronet to test
bad packets from another host.

Synchronet isn't tossing anything to downlinks on Agoranet, and hasn't for quite some time. HPT is the mail tosser here so if your packets are bad, they may actually be malformed.

Regards,
Nick

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|08·── |15Nicholas Boel |07Said |08──·|07
Synchronet isn't tossing anything to downlinks on Agoranet, and hasn't for quit e some time. HPT is the mail tosser here so if your packets are bad, they may a ctually be malformed.
|08·── |15Nicholas Boel |07Done |08──·|07

i'm fairly certain all our softwares are vulnerable to malformed packets, buffer overflows, etc, and even worse for the guys running ooooold software ;) i'm just glad it's mostly old sysops here who wouldn't really want to crash other boards, because what would be left then =)


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