So I have Synchronet and FIDO setup nicely on my BBS that I have recently setup, however I have been asked to poll another node to test that my setup is OK.

This request has come from my NC, however I am not sure how I can poll another node in Synchronet for just a "one off" as such?

I've looked through the wiki and I am still unsure on how I can acheive this, so any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.

Rich
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Re: Polling another node
By: Richard Bagshaw to All on Wed Jul 09 2025 11:35 pm

So I have Synchronet and FIDO setup nicely on my BBS that I have recently setup, however I have been asked to poll another node to test that my setup is OK.

This request has come from my NC, however I am not sure how I can poll another node in Synchronet for just a "one off" as such?

I've looked through the wiki and I am still unsure on how I can acheive this, so any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.

binkit.js supports the -l [node] option to force the poll of a specific node. https://wiki.synchro.net/module:binkit
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Re: Polling another node
By: Richard Bagshaw to All on Wed Jul 09 2025 11:35 pm

So I have Synchronet and FIDO setup nicely on my BBS that I
have recently setup, however I have been asked to poll another
node to test that my setup is OK.

This request has come from my NC, however I am not sure how I can

Show him a screenshot of your setup. That's the great way to show
you are setup correctly. I've never heard of this before.

I've setup fidonet just fine and setup other people. i still don't fully understand it. but you get the numbers right and it works. I've even fixed setups that 'experts' made on other systems that had mistakes.
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Re: Polling another node
By: Digital Man to Richard Bagshaw on Wed Jul 09 2025 19:27:01

binkit.js supports the -l [node] option to force the poll of a specific node. https://wiki.synchro.net/module:binkit

Oh perfect, thanks Rob!
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Richard Bagshaw wrote to All <=-

So I have Synchronet and FIDO setup nicely on my BBS that I have
recently setup, however I have been asked to poll another node to test that my setup is OK.

This request has come from my NC, however I am not sure how I can poll another node in Synchronet for just a "one off" as such?

I've looked through the wiki and I am still unsure on how I can acheive this, so any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.

I see you're on Linux, so you could do this:

/sbbs/exec/jsexec binkit.js -l x:xxx/xxx



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Re: Re: Polling another node
By: Gamgee to Richard Bagshaw on Thu Jul 10 2025 08:06:19

I see you're on Linux, so you could do this:

/sbbs/exec/jsexec binkit.js -l x:xxx/xxx

Yeah, that's exactly what I did in the end, worked like a charm :) thankyou

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