; Proposed Hacker Distribution Network ; TIC Distribution System ; By Light Ray 06/06/95 ; DNA-0001.001 ; Notes: ; o It'd be nice if we could use Black Flag, since I wrote it. (: ; (it's a TIC processor). Black Flag is neat because it can track ; files as they go through the network. In the next release, Black ; Flag will have an Areafix and support the new fidonet Distributed ; File Request System ; ; o In addittion, we should have all files on all boards in DNA be ; requestable through the front-end mailer, perhaps only to sites ; in the Nodelist or passworded systems. ; ; o If requests are only allowed from secure systems, then most likely ; it would only be possible to FREQ from one's direct uplinks and ; down-links - which would not be very wonderful. ; ; o Setting up a Distributed FREQ system would allow ROUTED file ; requests, eliminating the above annoyance. ; ; o Routed file requests would probably magnify the phone bills of ; area-code/country hubs. ; ; o Upgrading to mailers which support bidirectional mail transfers ; would help ease this burden. Xenia (for OS/2 or DOS) supports the ; Hydra protocol. LoraBBS (for OS/2 or DOS) supports the Janus ; bidirectional protocol. ; ; o If all systems had CyberFile running, DNA (the HDN) would become ; the largest, most powerful hack-phreak-technical information seek ; facility available. ; ; o Echo tags should meet 8 character limit due to limitation ; in some old TIC processors. However, echo tags longer than eight ; characters are much nicer - if we agree only to use newer TIC ; processors, then we can have long echo tags. ; ; o Black Flag version 1.60 (with the 1.50 documentation) may be freqed ; from me as BLACK160.ZIP. CyberFile may be freqed as CYBERFILE, ; CYBRFILE, or CF051.ZIP. The current version is 0.51 with 0.52 due ; out very soon. I'm sure I could provide DNA members with registered ; copies. (: To try out CyberFile, call up the Digital Forest and ; hit /C from the File Menu. For those of you that are as yet ; uninitiated, CyberFile allows sysops to put files on cd-roms, ; tapes, other BBS's, etc, up on the BBS. Really nice interface. ; [blatant advertisement mode off] ; ; o Since DNA is relatively small and its particapants are open minded, ; DNA would provide an excellent test-bed for alternate network ; systems and topologies. It would be interesting to implement the ; proposed fidonet nameserver proposal and other new things. In such ; a system, Digital Decay becomes digital_decay.dna.org instead of ; 66:714/0. It's neat. ; o Proposed File Echo Tags ; - remember, you can group these areas into single directories on ; your bbs. For example, you could tell your TIC processor to put ; all HDN-DNA and HDN-ILL files into the same directory. For this ; reason, I am making the areas very specific. You can group the ; files automatically into less-specific areas when they get to your ; board, but the opposite cannot be done without human evaluation. ; Personally, I just have all my inbound TICs directed into my ; UPLOADs directory. [with Black Flag, I just add this to my config: ; AREA * F:\DLOADS\UPLOADS and all files get sent to uploads. (: ; ; o In case it's not completely apparent, I like the programs I have ; written. (: ; ; o I can rebroadcast the files I receive from Renegade Support Network ; over to the HDN-BBSx areas. HDN-ANNC Announcement Files (for things like Def Con, Summercon, etc) HDN-PRGP Programming -Pascal Source Code HDN-PRGC Programming - C, C++ Source Code HDN-PRGO Programming - Other Source Code HDN-PRGP Programming - Compilers, Interpreters, Assemblers HDN-PRGA Programming - Assembly Language HDN-PRGD Programming - Disassemblers, Decompilers, Debuggers HDN-PRGM Programming - Miscellaneous, Editors HDN-HCKU Hacking Utilities / Phreaking Utilities HDN-HCKT Hacking Text / Phreaking Text HDN-ESAY School papers and essays HDN-CUD Computer Underground Digest distribution HDN-DNA Digital News Associates releases HDN-ILL Information Liberation League releases HDN-PRCK Phrack Magazine Distribution HDN-TEXT Miscellaneous Text Files HDN-MAG Magazines HDN-LIST Nodelists (DNA, etc) HDN-DES Data Encryption and Security HDN-AV Antiviral Software HDN-VIRL Viral Software - Viruses - Virii - Trojan ;--------------BBS Related stuff--------------- HDN-BBST BBS Related Text [what would go here?] HDN-BBSU BBS Related Utilities [ie Gecho, BlackFlag] HDN-BBSS BBS Software [ie Renegade, Waffle] HDN-BBSD BBS Doors (Utilties) [ie CyberFile ] HDN-BBSG BBS Doors (Games) [do we want this? ] ;-------------Internet Related----------------- HDN-IPWN Internet Related - Windows These could be HDN-IPOS Internet Related - OS/2 all put into one HDN-IPNX Internet Related - Unix / *nix HDN-IPOT Internet Related - DOS / Other directory on your HDN-IPNF Internet Related - Information and Lists bbs if wanted. ;-------------Misc----------------------------- HDN-CRCK Cracks & Cheats HDN-ANSI ANSI Graphics HDN-SND Sound ;------------- Utilities---------------------- HDN-DOSU DOS Utilities again, you could HDN-OS2U OS2 Utilities group all of these HDN-WINU WIN Utilities into one directory HDN-NIXU UNIX Utilities ; Please post feedback to this ; Light_Ray!66:714/10@dnanet