open https://gitlab.synchro.net/main/sbbs/-/issues/278

At the bottom of every nodelist, there is a notice about the PING flag which states:~~~feature Nodes flying this flag will adhere to the following functionality:;S;S 1) PING-function:;S """"""""""""""""";S If a message destined to "PING" arrives at its final destination;S and this final destination flies the "PING"-flag, then the;S receiving node will bounce the message back to the original;S sender clearly displaying all the original via-lines.;S;S If a message destined to "PING" arrives at its final destination;S but this final destination does _not_ fly the "PING"-flag then the;S message may be deleted from the inbound-queue without further;S follow-up.;S;S 2) TRACE-function:;S """""""""""""""""";S If a message destined to "PING" arrives at a node which flies;S the PING-flag but is merely passing-through to another destination;S then the in-transit node will notify the sender of this occurence;S and will forward the original mail unaltered towards its final;S destination.~~~SBBS Supports the PING functionality (around line 4000 of sbbs.c), but doesn't report back when it is a pass-through system (aka TRACE)There has also been some discussion about separating the TRACE and PING functions. Support for that would be nice.
--- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux
* Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)