and UDP). "Bilquist bridge" circuits do not appear to recover from IP changes, even when DNS is used. Bob

I had put code into the "Bilquist bridge" (bridge.c, version 2.8) to handle an IP address change.  However, as this happened extremely late at night, I didn't want to wait for the sub-process to catch the change.  So I whacked everything manually, dropping Bob a note, afterwards. Since 2.8, I've done (I hope) a better job of strobing the information from the concurrently accessed bridge structure, which is now version 2.9.  Both may be found for anonymous NFT on VENTI2::BRIDGE.C, if anybody wants to download.  Johnny, I guess you may want to have a look when you get some time. Be aware that VENTI2:: is running a much modified FAL, DAPLIB and GLXLIB, the current version being in internal alpha test, so let me know if you get what you feel are odd results.

Should be fixed in T1.1-648 available at http://akdesign.dyndns.org:8080/resources/public/index.html paul

Interesting. Mine is a Multinet circuit, and it didn't pick up the change until after a restart. -----Original Message----- From: Robert Armstrong <bob(a)jfcl.com> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2023 7:07 PM To: 'The Hobbyist DECnet mailing list' <hecnet(a)lists.dfupdate.se> Subject: [HECnet] Re: Area 27 IP address change I use your FQDN (decnet.theberrymans.com) in my pyDECnet config, and A2RTR seems to have figured it out on its own. Kudos to Paul for that! Bob -----Original Message----- From: Mark Berryman [mailto:mark@theberrymans.com] Sent: Monday, January 16, 2023 8:35 AM To: The Hobbyist DECnet mailing list Subject: [HECnet] Area 27 IP address change I had a bit of a go-around with Comcast over the weekend. The end result is that my addresses have changed. If you are one of my HECnet neighbors, my new addresses are: IPv4: 73.95.34.4 IPv6: 2601:281:c100:6d0:3870:e9fa:b78e:abd2 These are also always available in DNS as decnet.theberrymans.com. Mark Berryman Area 27 _______________________________________________ HECnet mailing list -- hecnet(a)lists.dfupdate.se To unsubscribe send an email to hecnet-leave(a)lists.dfupdate.se _______________________________________________ HECnet mailing list -- hecnet(a)lists.dfupdate.se To unsubscribe send an email to hecnet-leave(a)lists.dfupdate.se

I may have restarted before the one hour interval expired, never giving the software a chance to recover. For analysis, I need to know the time the new address was put into place at Mark’s end. Groet, Wilm (Verstuurd vanaf mijn telefoon, dus wat korter dan gewoonlijk.) (Sent from my phone, so a bit more compact than usual)

decnet.theberrymans.com have a expiration of 7 days, a refresh of 12 hours, and a minimum timeout of 1h. So it can be way more than "well over an hour". It might be something like 13h easily here. Johnny On 2023-01-16 21:44, Paul Koning wrote: -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt(a)softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

It seems that Comcast IPv6 is (a) an address, and (b) a 64 bit prefix. There is no relationship between the two. The easiest to use is the address, but that is known to change. I haven't kept an eye on the prefix to see if that has remained stable. The prefix is a bit harder to use. I got some machinery to propagate it to my home nodes but that stuff (in Linux) seems to be fragile. paul

Comcast provides an IPv6 /128 address. This address is intended for the external interface of your router. It also provides a /60 subnet. This is intended for use as an address pool for hosts inside the router. Mark Berryman