Fidotest Tree (hpttree)

Nil Alexandrov написал(а) к Gleb Hlebov в May 24 18:32:18 по местному времени:

* Originally in fidotest
* Crossposted in ru.ftn.develop
Нello, Gleb!

Thursday May 02 2024 08:57, from Gleb Нlebov -> 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.

GН> It's a funny historical "bug", because looking at many SEEN-BYs you
GН> have to guess which zone (of the four) it is now. НptTree seems to
GН> 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.

PATН 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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