Re: nncp-redir

John Goerzen
2021-07-01T15:05:00Z

On Wed, Jun 30 2021, Sergey Matveev wrote:

> I will write nncp-trns (transition, that "trns" is already used
> in many
> places in NNCP) utility for wrapping/redirecting packets through
> another
> node(s).

Thank you! That makes good sense.

I haven't really had a need for multicasting (though I definitely
see your point about why it can be helpful), and as you say, that
could also be resolved at the software layer.

I have a related question about -via.

I over-simplified slightly in my initial explanation. In reality,
baksvr has no direct Internet access; there's a separate
langateway on the network. So what I had to do is:

nncp-file -via vps,langateway filename baksvr:

Now, the nncp.hjson on vps for baksvr configures it to be via
langateway. Initially I had forgotten about langateway and wrote:

nncp-file -via vps filename baksvr:

which didn't work, as they got queued up on vps for a poll from
baksvr that would never arrive.

So my question is, how does -via interact with the nncp.hjson via?
I vaguely remembered that one wouldn't necessarily have to spell
out the entire route initially, and could let, for example, vps
figure out how to get a packet to its destination if it had a via
entry. But I may be misremembering that.

Thanks again!

- John