* Originally in fidotest
* Crossposted in ru.ftn.develop
Hello, Gleb!
Thursday May 02 2024 08:57, from Gleb Hlebov -> Nicholas Boel:
NA>>> | + 2:15/0
NA>>> | | L 2:340/400
NA>>> | | L 2:340/1101
NA>>> | L 2:229/307
NB>> Except, a lot of the above should be zone 1. I also think there
NB>> was one or more zone 3 addresses in your tree too, that were
NB>> shown as Z2.
GH> It's a funny historical "bug", because looking at many SEEN-BYs you
GH> have to guess which zone (of the four) it is now. HptTree seems to
GH> default everything to z2.
Exactly, it has a notion of home zone. FTN is a pretty dated and legacy system
with some workarounds here and there to overcome the limitations and have a
backwards compatibility with the DOS software from late 80x, early 90x.
PATH and SEEN-BY keywords, not really kludges even, have been stuck with
2D-address schema since the introduction of FTS-4 back in 86-87.
When IP took over the world, the zonegate guys became obsolete cause you just
cannot control the amount of cross zone links sysop could establish. I really
appreciate the decision made at some point to have network numbers unique across
all zones.
Best Regards, Nil
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