External relay log messages on clinet

Usage and Config
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OK, so after quite a bit of effort, I have an external relay functioning and serving update to laptops outside of our production network.

Relay selected: www.mysite.at 127.0.0.1 on: IPV4 (Using setting IPV4ThenIPV6)
At 10:50:41 -0500 -
PollForCommands: Requesting commands
PollForCommands: commands to process: 2
At 10:50:43 -0500 -
Entering service loop
Starting Service Loop.
A2AServer::Start().
At 10:50:45 -0500 - actionsite (http://rootserver.com:52311/cgi-bin/bfgather.exe/actionsite)
Downloaded ‘http://mysite.com:52311/bfmirror/bfsites/gathercache/961c388033e93e3e2e60e196caa4432e8fbbfdaf.sha1’ as 'Fixlet 210978.fxf’
Downloaded ‘http://mysite.com:52311/bfmirror/bfsites/gathercache/a22f4ffa51e165a59d044d08b3248779371c8d87.sha1’ as 'Fixlet 211027.fxf’
Downloaded ‘http://mysite.com:52311/bfmirror/bfsites/gathercache/e961e6bbc530535157a50f9bade9ecec54a44292.sha1’ as 'Fixlet 203548.fxf’
Downloaded ‘http://mysite.com:52311/bfmirror/bfsites/gathercache/77473ba705d94fe24c359edc5f20e95ff57b292c.sha1’ as 'Fixlet 209871.fxf’
Gather::SyncSiteByFile merging files - count: 2
Gather::SyncSiteByFile adding files - count: 3
At 10:50:45 -0500 -
Successful Synchronization with site ‘actionsite’ (version 186182) - ‘http://rootserver.com:52311/cgi-bin/bfgather.exe/actionsite’

So my question is: what is doing, why does it keep pointing back to the root server? I thought the external relay was effectively its own root server for external cient. Are those just sync and checksum actions? Is it actually retrieving conent? Any help in making sense of this would be greatly appreciated.

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Those messages don’t necessarily mean you’re connecting to the root server. The server name listed in your masthead (usually your root server) becomes part of the “site name” and will appear in the logs, even if you’re actually connected to a Relay server.

You’ll need to find the “Relay Select” messages in your client log. They’ll look something like

   Beginning Relay Select
   RegisterOnce: Attempting secure registration with 'https://RELAY.domain.com:52311/cgi-bin/bfenterprise/clientregister.exe?RequestType=RegisterMe60&ClientVersion=9.5.6.63&Body=2603082&SequenceNumber=4486&MinRelayVersion=7.1.1.0&CanHandleMVPings=1&Root=http://ROOTSERVER.domain.com%3a52311&AdapterInfo=MACADDR_IPADDR%2fMORE_CLIENT_DETAILS'
   Unrestricted mode
   Configuring listener as wake-on-lan forwarder(AdapterInfo=MAC_SUBNET/MASK_IPADDR_1).
   Registered with url 'https://RELAY.domain.com:52311/cgi-bin/bfenterprise/clientregister.exe?RequestType=RegisterMe60&ClientVersion=9.5.6.63&Body=2603082&SequenceNumber=4486&MinRelayVersion=7.1.1.0&CanHandleMVPings=1&Root=http://ROOTSERVER.domain.com%3a52311&AdapterInfo=MORE_CLIENT_INFO'
   Registration Server version 9.5.7.90 , Relay version 9.5.7.94
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Thanks I appreciate it!