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- How to Use the FidoNet/Internet Gateways
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- Sending from Internet => FidoNet
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- To send mail from an Internet Site TO a user that calls a Fido-Net system.:
-
- What you must know:
- 1) The node number of the Fido-Net system that your friend calls.
- 2) The *exact* UserName s/he logs in with.
-
- With these bits of information do the following (assuming that you are
- sending a NEW message and NOT just replying to a message you received).
-
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- The address of a FidoNet Node looks like this: 1:107/309.0. Usually
- the .0 is left off, but it is there by default.
- That address can be translated as "Zone 1, Net 107, FidoNode 309,
- Point 0." or f309.n107.z1.fidonet.org - the "Fully Qualified
- Domain Name" of a FidoNode.
-
- Another example is 1:107/309.2 which would be written as
- p2.f309.n107.z1.fidonet.org (since there is a point number other than 0,
- we have to specify it). Note also that we are only using zone 1.
- This will also work for zones 2 and 3, just use z2 or z3 as appropriate.
-
- Note that FidoNet systems usually use a "Firstname Lastname" logon.
- You will need to express that as First.Last, using a DOT in place of
- the SPACE.
-
-
- Addresses can be interpreted as:
-
- First.Last@[p###.]f###.n###.z#.fidonet.org where:
- ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
- | | | | | | `------`--- domain
- | | | | | `---- Zone number (IMPORTANT)
- | | | | `-------- Net number
- | | | `------------- Node number
- | | `------------------- Point number (optional)
- | `------------------ User's LAST Name
- `------------------------ User's FIRST Name
-
- The Point number should *ONLY* be used if non-zero.
-
- The Domain Name Server (DNS) on the Internet for the .fidonet.org
- domain will tell your mail-server the IP-address of the MX-receiver
- for the gateway node that is handling traffic for that particular
- "Net" within FidoNet, *if* arrangements have been made for a specific
- gateway to handle ALL of the Net's traffic.
-
- As of March 1st, 1996, there is NO LONGER a "default MX"
- for *.z1.fidonet.org. If arrangements have not been made with
- a gateway, there will be NO MX-record and therefore you cannot
- reach that system using this syntax!
-
- It would be advisable to query the DNS system if possible to see
- if there is a valid MX-record for the address you want to send to.
- If you are on a UNIX machine, you should be able to do that using
- 'nslookup' by using the following syntax:
-
- $ nslookup -type=mx *.n###.z1.fidonet.org
-
- where you replace the '###' with the appropriate sub-domain number.
-
- If that command does NOT return a MX-record, then it means that
- any E-Mail to any such address *will* bounce since it does NOT have
- a gateway to go thru.
-
-
- Although the following syntaxes *may* have been advertised somewhere,
- they are ***NOT*** valid!
-
- user.name%fNODE.nNET.z1@fidonet.org
-
- (There is NO actual system named 'fidonet.org'. That is the
- the domain-name under which FidoNet systems are mapped under
- the above scheme. There is no MX-record for 'fidonet.org', so
- anything sent with this syntax *will* undoubtedly bounce!)
-
- user.name%fNODE.nNET.z1.fidonet.org@zeus.ieee.org
-
- (I'm getting *real* tired of folks trying to force traffic
- thru our News-Server. Nobody was ever authorized to publish
- this in various FAQs and books all over the place!)
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