[HECnet] Announcing TCP/IP V2.8 for RSX-11M-PLUS

[Johnny Billquist]

:-)

I've definitely been thinking about it. But the "big" problem is that 
I'd want TLS if I were to start using it myself. And TLS so far is 
something I suspect I'm not touching...

IMAP would be interesting.

But MAIL under RSX do have an API, so you can pretty easily write your 
own applications that read and send mails. But it's not really that well 
documented yet. I have some thoughts about improving on mail reception 
so that you can get programs run that can process new mails as well, in 
case you want special handling, or even do things like mailing lists.

I did think about the HECnet mailing list, but stuff on RSX is not ready 
for that yet... A few more months and it might be possible.

   Johnny

On 2021-12-26 21:16, Brian Hechinger wrote:
> Why do i want to host all my mail on rsx11 now? Give me an IMAP service 
> and i just may. 😜
> On Dec 26, 2021, 12:18 +0000, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>, wrote:
> 
>     Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS.
> 
>     This is version 2.8 of BQTCP/IP.
> 
> 
>     It's been four months since the last official update, and there been
>     various smaller improvements.
> 
> 
>     Highlights:
> 
>     . Several smaller issues have been fixed which could cause crashes under
>     certain circumstances.
>     . Improvements in ICMP error handling.
>     . Performance improvements in TCP, telnetd and Multinet.
>     . Improved behavior in the DNS resolver.
>     . Improved handling of many things in MAIL.
>     . More patches for issues in RSX and LAT.
> 
> 
> 
>     Detailed information on things that have been done since the last
>     release:
> 
> 
>     TCP:
>     . Bugfix. In some special circumstances, TCP could crash out with an odd
>     address trap when doing an IO.REJ.
>     . Fixed TCP handling at close, which could sometimes cause a spurios
>     retransmit.
>     . Fixed TCP behavior at large packet loss, which could lead to very bad
>     performance. We now reset the delayed ACK handling when we get to a
>     delayed transmit.
>     . In Time wait state in TCP, a probe caused RST. It should be ignored.
>     . Improved window update handling in TCP when we have lost packets.
> 
> 
>     ICMP:
>     . Improved ICMP time exceeded error handling. Also affected PING and
>     TRACERT.
>     . Improved ICMP error return value for destination unreachable to have
>     IE.NRJ with subcode in high byte. Second word of IOSB now contain
>     possible additional information. Also affected PING.
>     . Bugfix. ICMP error generation could corrupt the IP pool in some
>     circumstances.
>     . ICMP errors returned for destination unreachable failed to include the
>     correct subcode.
> 
> 
>     DNS:
>     . Improved resolver to ignore leading spaces in hostnames.
>     . Improved name resolver to have more randomness in returning a random
>     result to a name lookup with multiple answers.
> 
> 
>     MAIL:
>     . Changed mail back to using MAILDN for new mail delivery.
>     . Improved MAILD. Refuse connections from hosts with no reverse DNS, or
>     who claim to be someone else at EHLO/HELO.
>     . Fixed maild. If outgoing mail have format=flowed, the mail was missing
>     an extra space on lines starting with space.
>     . Added mail blocking based on from address.
>     . Improved MAILD memory usage.
>     . Improved MAILRD handling of LAST keyword.
>     . Improved MAILRD handling of reading current/next/previous mail.
>     . Improved MAIL11 address rewriting in MAILD.
> 
> 
>     HTTPD:
>     . Bugfix in HTTPD. CGI execution could cause a spurious error.
> 
> 
>     RSX:
>     . Added patched LAT, DCL, RMSDSP, RMSDAP
>     . Changed TT: driver patch. Updated MCR.
> 
> 
> 
>     Some additional notes:
> 
>     As usual, I would recommend people to update as soon as possible.
>     The changes are not critical, but will lead to a much better experience.
> 
>     The patches to the TT: driver cannot be applied automatically, but
>     requires users to apply the patches themselves, and then run SYSGEN to
>     generate a new system.
>     Once added, the TNC2 task can be run at login, and will define logical
>     names for the user telling where he is connected from, if using telnet.
>     The TT: driver patches also allows the updated MCR to give more
>     information with the DEV command (SHOW TERMINAL in DCL).
> 
>     The other patches to RSX can be applied automatically by IPGEN, either
>     if used interactively when answering YES to the question about applying
>     RSX patches, or by running IPGEN explicitly to do the patches, with the
>     command:
> 
>     @IPGEN PATCH
> 
>     Specific information about the patches:
>     LAT: Fixes a memory leak, and adds the ability to read where a terminal
>     connection comes from when using LAT, using SF.GMC.
>     RMSDAP: Fixes a bug in getting the file protection, so the XAB gets
>     filled in correctly for remote files.
>     RMSDSP: Fixes that some numbers were displayed in signed octal, which
>     should have been displayed in decimal or unsigned octal, depending on
>     number.
>     DCL: Added terminal attributes for COLOR.
>     MCR: Too many fixes to be listed here...
> 
> 
>     As usual, the distribution is available from:
>     ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk
>     ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap
> 
>     !!! BQTCP is also available through RPM !!!
> 
> 
>     (As an additional note, if there are any problems communicating with Mim
>     using port 21, the ftp service is also available at port 10021)
> 
>     The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at
>     http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc
> 
>     I hope people find this update useful.
> 
> 
>     On a final note, Mim have moved. Mim.Update.UU.SE still points to the
>     machine, but the actual name is now Mim.Stupi.NET, and in case
>     Update.UU.SE cease to work at some point, Stupi.NET should still be
>     fine.
> 
> 
>     Johnny
> 
>     --
>     Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus
>     || on a psychedelic trip
>     email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books
>     pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol
> 

-- 
Johnny Billquist                  || "I'm on a bus
                                   ||  on a psychedelic trip
email: bqt at softjar.se             ||  Reading murder books
pdp is alive!                     ||  tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol