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5 The nodelist and the nodelist compiler
The nodelist is FrontDoor's telephone directory listing and is used
for several purposes. Among these are to allow you to perform name
lookups of other SysOps, to retrieve information about remote
systems, such as the maximum supported baud rate, modem flags, and
system capability flags, to check if a remote system is known to your
system or should be treated as an unlisted system.
FD requires that a nodelist be present whereas FM and the Terminal
can both be used without one, if so required. The typical FidoNet
nodelist contains over 10.000 systems and has a fairly straight
forward structure as follows.
Zone Usually a large geographical area, such as North America,
Europe, Australia and New Zealand, etc. At the time of
the release of this package, the following FidoNet Zone
numbers have been allocated:
1 North America (including Canada)
2 Europe
3 Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand
4 Latin America
5 Africa
6 Asia
Region Usually a somewhat smaller geographical area, such as a
country or part of a (large) country. A collection of
regions make up one zone.
Net Usually a collection of systems local to each other.
Typically a city and in some cases including its suburbs.
A collection of nets make up one region.
Node A single system within a net.
Point A single system belonging to a node. Typically, a point
is similar to a user logging on to a BBS system using
his/her terminal program, with the main difference being
that a point performs most of his/her activities offline
and use smart software to collect and transit his/her
mail.
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