Hello Group. I am fairly new to VARA, I wonder if that possible to forward from BPQ to and other BPQ station using VARA, and is the node table can be broadcast on VARA? -- 73 de Jean, VA2OM / VE2PKT Sysop de: VE2PKT (BBS), VE2PKT-2 (BPQNode), VE2PKT-4 (XRPI) : VE2PKT-5 (Jnos), VE2PKT-9 (DXCluster) RF: 145.05 Mhz (1.2K Bps) Packet, 147.435 Mhz, VARA Internet: Telnet: ve2pkt.dyndns.org port 2323 (Xrpi Node) - VE2PKT-4 Telnet: ve2pkt.ampr.org port 9000 (DXCluster) - VE2PKT-9 E-Mail: packet: va2om@ve2pkt.#qbc.qc.can.noam ampr net: va2om@... Inet: ve2pkt@... Hamshack Hotline: 5500000866 Membre Createur du groupe [email protected]/g/PacketQuebecCarte des Station RF au Quebec
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Re: UPDATING BPQ 32 from 6.0.23.1 to BETA
John G8bpq
do you recommend the beta offering?
I am starting a new install on windows.
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thank you for your efforts. You bring a new birth to digital radio.
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Thanks Mark and Todd. Best regards.? Em sex., 30 de ago. de 2024, 15:16, Todd Kolmodin via <n7try.or= [email protected]> escreveu:
Mark is correct.? The INTERLOCK= statement is before the CONFIG statement Todd
That¡¯s a port configuration. It goes prior to a CONFIG statement I believe.?
Mark
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I'm having problems with the internet to the site that's running
one of my tile servers. I'll see if I can redirect the traffic but
in the meantime there is my new map? at
73, John
On 30/08/2024 13:32, Larry via
groups.io wrote:
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If I go to the map at
I see nodes but no country or state outlines (geography). How
do you enable that?
Larry
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Mark is correct.? The INTERLOCK= statement is before the CONFIG statement Todd
That¡¯s a port configuration. It goes prior to a CONFIG statement I believe.?
Mark
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That¡¯s a port configuration. It goes prior to a CONFIG statement I believe.?
Mark
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Re: Not accepting mail to yourself...
Much obliged for all the attention and support, and Mark especially your specific pointers.? I was confused and didn't know it.? Now I do but may still be.
Here is what I've confirmed and/or changed:
1/? Main Config:? Confirm H Route is FL.USA.NOAM
2/? Users:? Confirm there is a K4WOF User with Home BBS K4WOF.FL.USA.NOAM
3/? Forwarding:? Yes, I mistakenly had a forwarding config for myself.? No more.
4/? Re Send Messages to more than one BBS.? It was checked.? Not now.
5/? Nowhere did I have K4WOF.K4WOF etc.? No idea where that came from on the original message that caused all this trouble :-(
6/? Checked for correct HA and HR entries.
7/? Killed the offending message
The node is being restarted.? Watching for smoke, bluescreens and static from the group :-)
73, Jer K4WOF
On Friday, August 30th, 2024 at 8:06 AM, Mark Taylor <mtaylor@...> wrote:
Now, why does a bbs forward a message when the message is addressed to himself at that bbs?
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Does the user have a user record for himself at that BBS?? And the user record HomeBBS is that BBS??? I believe this, together with the address, is how BPQ knows to stop forwarding the message and hold it there for the user to read it.? I could be wrong here. It should stop when the BBS is reached regardless.
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So, Jerry, do you have a user record for yourself on your BBS with an accurate HomeBBS entered?
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I do think Charles is right in that Jerry needs to look closer to his forwarding rules.? However, 'moving the message closer to it's destination' while always a goal is not always possible.? For example, I am in South Texas (@STX) and there are stations in North Texas (#NTX) but I have no route to them.? However, I have a forwarding parnter in CO that does. So, I forward messages I receive at my bbs addressed to #NTX to CO, where my forwarding partner has a route to #NTX and he delivers the message to #NTX for delivery.
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John programed BPQ with the logic of comparing the elements of the HA with the forwarding rules found on the BBS and select the closest match to forward the message. And obviously to eliminate the possibility of a loop BPQ will not forward the message back to the bbs from which it was recieved.? Maybe not even to ANY bbs shown in the R lines.? So, that is why some messages take unexpected routes.
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I also have noticed that I had "Send personal messages to more than one BBS" checked, and a message to me was further forwarded by me to all of my Texas forwarding partners whose forwarding record was a match. When I unchecked this box that extra forwarding stopped.? I think that might also cause what happened to Jerry.? So, a question to Jerry, do you have "Send personal messages to more than one bbs" checked?
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Re: Not accepting mail to yourself...
Understanding how everyone works helps to keep the traffic flowing smoothly.
That's why I am on all of the mailing lists for the various bbs packages.
Underlying networking standards have to be commonly dealt with.
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On 8/30/2024 10:15 AM, Mark Taylor wrote: On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 09:03 AM, Charles Hargrove wrote:
Other software packages like JNOS and FBB/Flex/Xnet do not split the bbs
call from the rest of the hierarchical route.
Understood.? But this is a BPQ group, not a general BBS group. Everything I say here relates to BPQ only.
--
Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV
NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord.
NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL
ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM
NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM
NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM
on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32
"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped
by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
"Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying
(The work praises the man.)
"No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it
provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan
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Hi folks. Should INTERLOCK come before or on CONFIG section on the WinRPR port?
TIA
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On 8/30/24 08:32, Larry via groups.io wrote: If I go to the map at
I see nodes but no country or state outlines (geography). How do you enable that?
Larry Go to instead.
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If I go to the map at
I see nodes but no country or state outlines (geography). How do you enable that?
Larry
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Re: Not accepting mail to yourself...
On Fri, Aug 30, 2024 at 09:03 AM, Charles Hargrove wrote:
Other software packages like JNOS and FBB/Flex/Xnet do not split the bbs
call from the rest of the hierarchical route.
Understood.? But this is a BPQ group, not a general BBS group.? Everything I say here relates to BPQ only.
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Re: Not accepting mail to yourself...
From the JNOS AUTOEXEC.NOS file:
mbox haddress N2NOV.#RICH.NY.USA.NOAM
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On 8/30/2024 10:02 AM, Charles Hargrove wrote: Other software packages like JNOS and FBB/Flex/Xnet do not split the bbs
call from the rest of the hierarchical route.
On 8/30/2024 9:59 AM, Chuck Gelm wrote:
On 8/30/24 07:46, Mark Taylor wrote:
So, the BBS H Route does not contain the call of the bbs. It is just the route to get to the area of the bbs. +1 with Mark.
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A callsign is not hierarchical, thus it should not be part of a hierarchical route.
BBS call .vs. H Route
I think. :-|
73, Chuck
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Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV
NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord.
NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL
ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM
NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM
NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM
on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32
"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped
by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
"Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying
(The work praises the man.)
"No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it
provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan
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Re: Not accepting mail to yourself...
Other software packages like JNOS and FBB/Flex/Xnet do not split the bbs
call from the rest of the hierarchical route.
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Show quoted text
On 8/30/2024 9:59 AM, Chuck Gelm wrote: On 8/30/24 07:46, Mark Taylor wrote:
So, the BBS H Route does not contain the call of the bbs. It is just the route to get to the area of the bbs. +1 with Mark.
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A callsign is not hierarchical, thus it should not be part of a hierarchical route.
BBS call .vs. H Route
I think. :-|
73, Chuck
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Charles J. Hargrove - N2NOV
NYC-ARECS/RACES Citywide Radio Officer/Skywarn Coord.
NYC-ARECS/RACES Nets 441.100/136.5 PL
ARnewsline Broadcast Mon. @ 8:00PM
NYC-ARECS Weekly Net Mon. @ 8:30PM
NY-NBEMS Net Saturdays @ 10AM & USeast-NBEMS Net Wednesdays @ 7PM
on 7.036 Mhz USB (alt 3.536)/1500 hz waterfall spot; MFSK-16 or 32
"Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped
by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders." - Ronald Reagan
"The more corrupt the state, the more it legislates." - Tacitus
"Molann an obair an fear" - Irish Saying
(The work praises the man.)
"No matter how big and powerful government gets, and the many services it
provides, it can never take the place of volunteers." - Ronald Reagan
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Re: Not accepting mail to yourself...
On 8/30/24 07:46, Mark Taylor wrote:
So, the BBS H Route
does not contain the call of the bbs. It is just the route to get
to the area of the bbs.
+1 with Mark.
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A callsign is not hierarchical, thus it should not be part of a
hierarchical route.
I think. :-|
73, Chuck
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Re: BPQ32/LinBPQ vulnerability.
I've been working on getting linBPQ to build under GCC14 with the Debian-hardening[1] defaults this week to reduce attack surface and I¡¯ve produced a surprisingly small patchset to get me there [2], [3]. In the second patchiest I create a new headers file, but on reflection that doesn¡¯t feel necessary and I¡¯ll stick those definitions in a different pre-existing file.
This generates a successful build (and .deb) for me across Debian 11 (bullseye), 12 (bookworm) and 13 (trixie/testing) - the latter one is the hardest, due to increased pedantry from the compiler and things like 64bit time. The architectures are armhf, arm64 (raspi 32bit and 64bit respectively), amd64 & i386. If anyone has a pet architecture they¡¯re interested in running linbpq on that Debian supports (m68k anyone?!) then I¡¯m willing to build for it.?
The protections in place are:
hibby@gb7hib ~> hardening-check /usr/sbin/linbpq /usr/sbin/linbpq: ?Position Independent Executable: yes ?Stack protected: yes ?Fortify Source functions: yes (some protected functions found) ?Read-only relocations: yes ?Immediate binding: no, not found! ?Stack clash protection: unknown, no -fstack-clash-protection instructions found ?Control flow integrity: no, not found!
There¡¯s more work to be done here and I¡¯m not done with these patches yet.? The packages are available at the revised version of my personal repo [4] as I work towards building a proper linux distro and there¡¯s a rough guide to using it at [5]
The build log is attached if you¡¯re so inclined.
[1]? [2]? [3]? [4]? [5]?
On Tue, 27 Aug 2024, at 7:37 PM, John G8BPQ wrote:
CVE-2024-34087
73, John On 27/08/2024 17:39, Eric H.
Christensen via groups.io wrote:
We're CVEs issued for these vulnerabilities?
73,
Eric WG3K
FM18rp
Packet: WG3K@WG3K.#SMD.MD.USA.NOAM
E-Mail: wg3k@...
Sent from Proton Mail Android
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On 8/27/24 09:23, John G8BPQ <john.wiseman@...> wrote:
Someone has published an exploit for two buffer overflow vulnerability
in BPQ32/LinBPQ.
The most serious one was fixed in 6.0.24.36 but many people may still be
running older versions.
I suggest you update the the latest versions of bpq32 and linbpq
(6.0.24.42) from my beta download area. If you are running on Windows I
suggest you update BPQMail.exe and BPQChat.exe as well as bpq32.dll as
there may be incompatibly with older versions.
The latest source in in my git repositories.
I will issue a new installer for Windows a soon a possible but that may
take a few days.
73, John
-- ? Hibby
??Debian Developer
??Packet Radioist
??MM0RFN
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Re: What Linux OS to use with LinBPQ
I have three LinBPQ nodes running 24/7. Each of them run Ubuntu Server 24.04.
While not bleeding edge by any stretch of the imagination, it is reliable. I also don't stray too far from packet, so any of the modes (Vara) that might require me to run on Windows or an emulator isn't an issue.
Regards, Chad K3CLM
On Thursday, August 29th, 2024 at 16:16, John Farr - KD6CLO <jrfmobile@...> wrote:
Curious to see what flavor of Linux everyone uses for LinBPQ for their setup.?
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Thanks,
John - KD6CLO
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Re: Not accepting mail to yourself...
Now, why does a bbs forward a message when the message is addressed to himself at that bbs?
?
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Does the user have a user record for himself at that BBS?? And the user record HomeBBS is that BBS??? I believe this, together with the address, is how BPQ knows to stop forwarding the message and hold it there for the user to read it.? I could be wrong here. It should stop when the BBS is reached regardless.
?
So, Jerry, do you have a user record for yourself on your BBS with an accurate HomeBBS entered?
?
?
?
I do think Charles is right in that Jerry needs to look closer to his forwarding rules.? However, 'moving the message closer to it's destination' while always a goal is not always possible.? For example, I am in South Texas (@STX) and there are stations in North Texas (#NTX) but I have no route to them.? However, I have a forwarding parnter in CO that does. So, I forward messages I receive at my bbs addressed to #NTX to CO, where my forwarding partner has a route to #NTX and he delivers the message to #NTX for delivery.
?
John programed BPQ with the logic of comparing the elements of the HA with the forwarding rules found on the BBS and select the closest match to forward the message. And obviously to eliminate the possibility of a loop BPQ will not forward the message back to the bbs from which it was recieved.? Maybe not even to ANY bbs shown in the R lines.? So, that is why some messages take unexpected routes.
?
?
I also have noticed that I had "Send personal messages to more than one BBS" checked, and a message to me was further forwarded by me to all of my Texas forwarding partners whose forwarding record was a match. When I unchecked this box that extra forwarding stopped.? I think that might also cause what happened to Jerry.? So, a question to Jerry, do you have "Send personal messages to more than one bbs" checked?
?
John may need to look at that programming logic again.
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N9PNO
Mauro Veiga