• sbbsecho and bad packets

    From deon@VERT/ALTERANT to Digital Man on Sunday, October 05, 2025 23:04:01
    Hey DM,

    Since updating a few days ago, I've now got a bunch of bad packet in my inbound, and all have been marked bad "msg-hdr".

    pktdump rev 1.18 - Dump FidoNet Packets

    Opening df43a202.msg-hdr.bad
    df43a202.msg-hdr.bad Packet Type 2e (prod: 10FF, rev: 1.9) from 3:633/280 to 3:633/509
    df43a202.msg-hdr.bad 00003A Corrupted Message Header (DateTime) df43a202.msg-hdr.bad 000658 Corrupted Message Header (DateTime) df43a202.msg-hdr.bad 000B83 Corrupted Message Header (DateTime) df43a202.msg-hdr.bad 001273 Corrupted Message Header (DateTime) df43a202.msg-hdr.bad 001FAC Corrupted Message Header (DateTime) root@alterant:/opt/sbbs/fido/inbound# pktdump df74da02.msg-hdr.bad
    pktdump rev 1.18 - Dump FidoNet Packets

    Opening df74da02.msg-hdr.bad
    df74da02.msg-hdr.bad Packet Type 2e (prod: 10FF, rev: 1.9) from 3:633/280 to 3:633/509
    df74da02.msg-hdr.bad 00003A Corrupted Message Header (DateTime)

    When I look at a few, it looks like SBBSecho (and pktdump) thinks they are bad because of DateTime, but they look ok to me:

    Here's one:

    00000000 18 01 fd 01 e9 07 09 00 03 00 11 00 00 00 02 00 |................| 00000010 00 00 02 00 79 02 79 02 ff 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 |....y.y.........| 00000020 00 00 03 00 03 00 00 00 00 01 10 09 01 00 03 00 |................| 00000030 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 18 01 fd 01 |................| 00000040 79 02 79 02 00 00 00 00 30 33 20 4f 63 74 20 32 |y.y.....03 Oct 2| 00000050 35 20 20 30 37 3a 31 37 3a 34 37 20 41 6c 6c 00 |5 07:17:47 All.| 00000060 54 68 65 20 4e 61 74 75 72 61 6c 20 50 68 69 6c |The Natural Phil|

    Why is SBBSecho marking them bad?

    I compiled on the 3rd - using git hash master/b7d3db6c3


    ...лоеп

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