[HECnet] Why does MIM not list 23.1023 as a known node?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2019-04-12 01:45, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2019-04-12 01:28, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>> Johnny - if I remember right, I have seen nodes with no names show up 
>> at http://mim.update.uu.se/hecnet without names in brackets, for my 
>> nodes when I haven’t told you to add them yet, or others too. no?
> 
> "Known nodes" is a tricky thing. It might also be different for 
> different OSes.
> In RSX, when you request known nodes, you get the ones which have a 
> name, and the ones for which there are counters registered.
> So, yes, under some circumstances, you will also see nodes without 
> names. But it will have to be nodes that have directly communicated with 
> Mim, in this case. So if 23.1023 were to communicate with Mim itself 
> (not routing for someone else), then it would then pop up in the known 
> nodes list.

Oh yeah. One more: Nodes that are in the same area will be shown, even 
if they don't have a name, if they are online.

   Johnny

> 
>    Johnny
> 
>>
>> On Apr 11, 2019, at 7:25 PM, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se 
>> <mailto:bqt at softjar.se>> wrote:
>>
>>> 23.1023 just don't have a name. So it's not a known node.
>>>
>>>  Johnny
>>>
>>> On 2019-04-12 01:16, Supratim Sanyal wrote:
>>>> A GRE tunnel up from 31.1023 to 23.1023; area 23 nodes are reachable 
>>>> through it, but 23.1023 does not show up in the known nodes list of 
>>>> another router (31.1, openvms 7.3) in the same local network. Both 
>>>> 31.1 and 31.1023 are L2; and 31.1 is connected to MIM via MULTINET. 
>>>> 23.1023 does not show as known to MIM either. But MIM and 31.1 do 
>>>> know about area 23 nodes  piglet, owl, rabbit etc.
>>>> How is 23.1023 going stealth?
>>>>       ---------
>>>>       |31.1   |
>>>>       |IMPVAX |---Multinet/TCP---HECnet
>>>>       ---------
>>>>           |
>>>>           |
>>>>    -----------------
>>>>    | Bunch of      |
>>>>    | Area 31 nodes |
>>>>    -----------------
>>>>           |
>>>>           |
>>>>       ---------
>>>>       |31.1023|
>>>>       |IMPRTR |---GRE Tunnels to other areas
>>>>       ---------
>>>> Tunnel from 31.1023 to 23.1023:
>>>> Area       Cost  Hops           Next Hop to Node       Expires  Prio
>>>> *23            4     1            Tunnel23 -> 23.1023       42 
>>>>     64  A+
>>>
>>>
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                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
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