Hi Everyone,

Is the synchro.net dyndns working as usual? Anyone know of a way to query the synchro.net dns to see what the current Ip is? I am having some issues in the last few days keeping my ip up to date. I'm running the board over VPN and its possible the the kill switch is being activated more frequently than usual. Or I'm just noticing this issue now because smoething with DYNDNS changed?

Thanks,
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Is the synchro.net dyndns working as usual? Anyone know of a way to query

the

synchro.net dns to see what the current Ip is?

I'm not sure about querying the synchronet DYNDNS but you can use host to see what DNS ruturns for your host.

$ host something.synchro.net

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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Al to Electrosys on Sun Sep 08 2019 02:01 pm

Is the synchro.net dyndns working as usual? Anyone know of a way to query the synchro.net dns to see what the current Ip is?

I'm not sure about querying the synchronet DYNDNS but you can use host to see what DNS ruturns for your host.

$ host something.synchro.net

If you use 'host something.synchro.net ns1.synchro.net', that'll query my DNS server directly and possibly give you a more up-to-date result.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #23:
The third ever Synchronet BBS was The Beast's Domain (sysop: King Drafus). Norco, CA WX: 80.8øF, 48.0% humidity, 8 mph E wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Electrosys to All on Sun Sep 08 2019 07:27 am

Hi Everyone,

Is the synchro.net dyndns working as usual? Anyone know of a way to query the synchro.net dns to see what the current Ip is? I am having some issues in the last few days keeping my ip up to date. I'm running the board over VPN and its possible the the kill switch is being activated more frequently than usual. Or I'm just noticing this issue now because smoething with DYNDNS changed?

On *nix, you can use the 'host' or 'dig' commands to resolve hostnames to IP addresses (or vice versa), e.g.:
# host digiaqua.synchro.net localhost
Using domain server:
Name: localhost
Address: 127.0.0.1#53
Aliases:

digiaqua.synchro.net has address 208.91.65.123
root@cvs:/var/log# host digiaqua.synchro.net ns1.synchro.net
Using domain server:
Name: ns1.synchro.net
Address: 71.95.196.36#53
Aliases:

digiaqua.synchro.net has address 208.91.65.123

On Windows, you can use the 'nslookup' comand.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #46:
Synchronet External X/Y/ZMODEM protocol driver (SEXYZ) was introduced in 2005. Norco, CA WX: 80.8øF, 48.0% humidity, 8 mph E wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Digital Man to Al on Sun Sep 08 2019 03:10 pm

If you use 'host something.synchro.net ns1.synchro.net', that'll query my DNS server directly and possibly give you a more up-to-date result.

Which package is the host program in? I don't have a host program in win7 where
im hosting the board, and archilinux doesn't have a host program either which is hosting the windows 7 vm.

Thanks,
Electrosys
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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Electrosys to Digital Man on Sun Sep 08 2019 03:19 pm

Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Digital Man to Al on Sun Sep 08 2019 03:10 pm

If you use 'host something.synchro.net ns1.synchro.net', that'll query my DNS server directly and possibly give you a more up-to-date result.

Which package is the host program in? I don't have a host program in win7 where im hosting the board,

"Win7" doesn't come with a 'host' utility, but it does come with nslookup, which I mentioned in the message. Use nslookup on Windows instead of host.

and archilinux doesn't have a host program
either which is hosting the windows 7 vm.

In debian-basted Linuxes, it's in the bind9-host package: https://packages.debian.org/buster/bind9-host

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #1:
Development began in 1990 of the (unnamed at the time) Synchronet BBS software.
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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sun Sep 08 2019 03:37 pm

Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Electrosys to Digital Man on Sun Sep 08 2019 03:19 pm

Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Digital Man to Al on Sun Sep 08 2019 03:10 pm

If you use 'host something.synchro.net ns1.synchro.net', that'll query my DNS server directly and possibly give you a more

up-to-date

result.

Which package is the host program in? I don't have a host program in

win7

where im hosting the board,

"Win7" doesn't come with a 'host' utility, but it does come with nslookup, which I mentioned in the message. Use nslookup on Windows instead of host.

and archilinux doesn't have a host program
either which is hosting the windows 7 vm.

In debian-basted Linuxes, it's in the bind9-host package: https://packages.debian.org/buster/bind9-host

Also check for 'dig' and 'delv'. 'host' appears to be deprecated, though that is the utility I use most out of habit.

digital man

This Is Spinal Tap quote #7:
Nigel Tufnel: That's just nitpicking, isn't it?
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If you use 'host something.synchro.net ns1.synchro.net', that'll query my

DNS

server directly and possibly give you a more up-to-date result.

Ahh.. good to know, thanks.. :)

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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sun Sep 08 2019 03:39 pm

Which package is the host program in? I don't have a host program in
win7 where im hosting the board,

"Win7" doesn't come with a 'host' utility, but it does come with
nslookup, which I mentioned in the message. Use nslookup on Windows
instead of host.

and archilinux doesn't have a host program
either which is hosting the windows 7 vm.

In debian-basted Linuxes, it's in the bind9-host package:
https://packages.debian.org/buster/bind9-host

Also check for 'dig' and 'delv'. 'host' appears to be deprecated, though that is the utility I use most out of habit.

digital man

I just discovered that there is a program called pkgfile which will tell you which package has a particular program that your looking for.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103464

All of host, dig and delv are in completly different packages for ArchLinux than the ones you mentioned.

Thanks,
Electrosys
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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sun Sep 08 2019 03:39 pm

Also check for 'dig' and 'delv'. 'host' appears to be deprecated, though that is the utility I use most out of habit.

Here are the results from Dig it looks like the ip address is old on ns1.synchro.net? Are you able to see what ip I'm sending you? I'm doing a dyndns update now so you should see a request. My current IP is 208.91.66.43 but an old IP is being returned (208.91.65.123)

[steve@livingroom ~]$ dig @ns1.synchro.net -q digiaqua.synchro.net

; <<>> DiG 9.14.4 <<>> @ns1.synchro.net -q digiaqua.synchro.net
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 21589
;; flags: qr aa rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 4
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;digiaqua.synchro.net.INA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
digiaqua.synchro.net.30INA208.91.65.123

;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
synchro.net.30INNSdns1.synchro.net.
synchro.net.30INNSdns2.synchro.net.

;; ADDITIONAL SECTION:
dns1.synchro.net.30INA71.95.196.36
dns2.synchro.net.30INA45.32.85.113 dns2.synchro.net.30INAAAA2001:19f0:6000:94c9:5400:ff:fe1c:fe77

;; Query time: 89 msec
;; SERVER: 71.95.196.36#53(71.95.196.36)
;; WHEN: Sun Sep 08 17:37:02 MDT 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 163

Thanks,
Electrosys
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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Electrosys to All on Sun Sep 08 2019 07:27:29

Is the synchro.net dyndns working as usual? Anyone know of a way to query

the synchro.net dns to see what the current Ip is?

use host or traceroute and query your QWKname.synchro.net and see what IP it returns... then compare that with what you expect it to be... if there's a difference, they we need to figure out why you are not seeing what you are expecting to see...


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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Electrosys to Digital Man on Sun Sep 08 2019 04:46 pm

Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sun Sep 08 2019 03:39 pm

Also check for 'dig' and 'delv'. 'host' appears to be deprecated, though that is the utility I use most out of habit.

Here are the results from Dig it looks like the ip address is old on ns1.synchro.net? Are you able to see what ip I'm sending you? I'm doing a dyndns update now so you should see a request. My current IP is

208.91.66.43

but an old IP is being returned (208.91.65.123)

Okay, should be fixed now. A sysop had specified an illegal "LOC" value which caused BIND to refuse to reload the zone file. Fixed.

digital man

Synchronet "Real Fact" #46:
Synchronet External X/Y/ZMODEM protocol driver (SEXYZ) was introduced in 2005. Norco, CA WX: 73.9øF, 65.0% humidity, 8 mph E wind, 0.00 inches rain/24hrs
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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Sun Sep 08 2019 07:03 pm

Here are the results from Dig it looks like the ip address is old on ns1.synchro.net? Are you able to see what ip I'm sending you? I'm doing dyndns update now so you should see a request. My current IP is 208.91.66.43 but an old IP is being returned (208.91.65.123)

Okay, should be fixed now. A sysop had specified an illegal "LOC" value which caused BIND to refuse to reload the zone file. Fixed.

digital man

Good times!

Thanks,
Electrosys

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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Electrosys to Digital Man on Mon Sep 09 2019 09:11 am

Here are the results from Dig it looks like the ip address is old on
ns1.synchro.net? Are you able to see what ip I'm sending you? I'm
doing a dyndns update now so you should see a request. My current IP
is 208.91.66.43 but an old IP is being returned (208.91.65.123)

Okay, should be fixed now. A sysop had specified an illegal "LOC"
value which caused BIND to refuse to reload the zone file. Fixed.

digital man

Good times!

Its happening again, I should be getting 208.91.68.251 which has been my ip for
a number of hours now.

dig digiaqua.synchro.net

; <<>> DiG 9.14.4 <<>> digiaqua.synchro.net
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 44862
;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 1, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 1

;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 512
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;digiaqua.synchro.net.INA

;; ANSWER SECTION:
digiaqua.synchro.net.30INA208.91.66.43

;; Query time: 77 msec
;; SERVER: 192.168.1.1#53(192.168.1.1)
;; WHEN: Tue Sep 10 11:49:24 MDT 2019
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 65

Thanks,
Electrosys
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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Electrosys to Digital Man on Tue Sep 10 2019 10:58 am

Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Electrosys to Digital Man on Mon Sep 09 2019 09:11 am

Here are the results from Dig it looks like the ip address is old on >> ns1.synchro.net? Are you able to see what ip I'm sending you? I'm
doing a dyndns update now so you should see a request. My current IP >> is 208.91.66.43 but an old IP is being returned (208.91.65.123)

Okay, should be fixed now. A sysop had specified an illegal "LOC"
value which caused BIND to refuse to reload the zone file. Fixed.

digital man

Good times!

Its happening again, I should be getting 208.91.68.251 which has been my ip for a number of hours now.

dig digiaqua.synchro.net

Ah, yes, copy/paste error on my end (I was copying the TXT record contents
into the LOC record) my bad. Fixed. Let me know if you see anything else weird.

digital man

Synchronet/BBS Terminology Definition #9:
BSO = Binkley Style Outbound
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Re: Synchro.net DynDns
By: Digital Man to Electrosys on Tue Sep 10 2019 01:00 pm

Ah, yes, copy/paste error on my end (I was copying the TXT record contents into the LOC record) my bad. Fixed. Let me know if you see anything else weird.

digital man

Thank you. Will do.

Electrosys

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