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arianna
response 50 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 6 23:38 UTC 1997

I would imagine...
senna
response 51 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 7 00:20 UTC 1997

Yeah, it's only accessible with a root password that only staff members
know... and some programs are only accessible to select staff members
dang
response 52 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 7 00:57 UTC 1997

Yeah, shutdown is root only.
kentn
response 53 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 7 05:41 UTC 1997

...and a good thing, too.
  (do shutdown messages from gryps show up on grex?)
scg
response 54 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 7 05:51 UTC 1997

No, shutdown messages from gryps show up only on gryps.
albaugh
response 55 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 7 18:09 UTC 1997

Is "gryps" the machine that manages grex's sessions?  Is there a 
one-to-one correspondence in sessions between gryps & grex?  Or does 
gryps merely manage the internet connection, and grex handle its own 
connections (I don't see how...) ?  Anyway, assuming that gryps is also 
a Unix machine, does *its* shutdown warn the grex users running through 
it?
dang
response 56 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 7 18:41 UTC 1997

Gryps is a unix machine, called a router, and it handles Grex's internet
connection.  The link modem is attached to gryps, and it runs ppp over that
modem to IC Net.  All incoming traffic to gryps is forwarded to Grex (Unless
that traffic is specifically for gryps) and grex handles all of the
connections.  So, you do not have a session with gryps when you are here. As
a matter of fact, no one but staff even has login's on gryps.  The shutdown
messages on gryps are only on gryps, and so you would not see them here.  All
that would happen is that your telnet session would freeze, and, of gryps was
down long enough, it would time out.  If gryps isn't down long enough, then
it just freezes for a while, and then starts back up.
scg
response 57 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 7 19:55 UTC 1997

Right, gryps is a router, just like any other router on the Net.  Gryps
receives IP packets, and if they aren't for it, it passes them on to wherever
its routing table says they should go.  In other words, if it recieves packets
for something on Grex's subnet (152.160.30.0/24) it sends them out its
ethernet port.  If it receives packets for something anywhere else, it sends
them over the PPP link to ICNet.  It doesn't do anything with the packets
other than pass them on.

Here's a traceroute (showing every router the packets go through) from my
computer at work to Grex.  Gryps shows up here as hop 14, 152.160.82.254.

traceroute to cyberspace.org (152.160.30.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  livrtr.wwnet.com (206.62.36.23)  0.848 ms  0.745 ms  0.873 ms
 2  agis-inventron.detroit1.agis.net (205.137.60.41)  14.073 ms  12.438 ms 
 4.8s 3  a0.1008.chicago4.agis.net (205.137.60.238)  10.422 ms  10.388 ms 
 10.227 ms 4  a0-0.1001.chicago2.agis.net (205.254.173.242)  26.863 ms  24.076
 ms  13.652s 5  aads.mci.net (198.32.130.12)  56.765 ms  64.684 ms  64.218 ms 6
  core3-hssi1-0.WillowSprings.mci.net (204.70.1.197)  334.257 ms  421.631 ms s
 7  bordercore2-loopback.WillowSprings.mci.net (166.48.22.1)  52.216 ms 
 79.501s 8  * * merit-michnet-ds3.WillowSprings.mci.net (166.48.23.254)  79.825
 ms 9  um-fddi4-0.ann-arbor.cic.net (192.203.195.3)  93.042 ms *  65.348 ms
10  iti-fastether1-0s7.ann-arbor.cic.net (198.87.20.26)  73.618 ms  78.013 ms 
s 11  icnet-iti.ann-arbor.cic.net (198.87.20.18)  89.355 ms  74.817 ms  77.412
ms 12  152.160.252.3 (152.160.252.3)  77.411 ms  73.991 ms  74.95 ms 13 
p3.aa.ic.net (152.160.60.8)  81.149 ms  77.237 ms  86.974 ms 14  152.160.82.254
(152.160.82.254)  875.556 ms  433.686 ms  884.12 ms 15  grex.cyberspace.org
(152.160.30.1)  1184.86 ms  510.936 ms  288.82 ms
senna
response 58 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 8 00:49 UTC 1997

where does the telnet que come into this?
scg
response 59 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 8 03:35 UTC 1997

The telnet queue is running on Grex.  You packets have to go through all those
routers to get to Grex when you're in the telnet queue, just like they do
after you're logged in.
senna
response 60 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 8 15:25 UTC 1997

ah, gotcha
jshafer
response 61 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 9 04:07 UTC 1997

Is there any way to see the status of the queue while you're on Grex?
Just curious.  I was gone when the queue was installed.
senna
response 62 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 9 04:21 UTC 1997

the queue is old, though, it's been around for a while.
davel
response 63 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 9 11:22 UTC 1997

heh
e4808mc
response 64 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 10 16:04 UTC 1997

and may I assume that dial-in sessions that are not telneted somewhere else
would not be affected at all by gryps going down?
davel
response 65 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 10 19:28 UTC 1997

That's right, unless you're using *outbound* internet services.
jared
response 66 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 11 00:20 UTC 1997

you can use shutdown -k to do a "fake" shutdown and warn folks of something
on most *BSD type systesm
jared
response 67 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 11 10:30 UTC 1997

I'm the only person on :)
  6:29am  up  6:24,  2 users,  load average: 1.82, 1.68, 1.62
User     tty       login@  idle   JCPU   PCPU  what
jared    ttyp0     5:10am                      -
jared    ttyp3     6:29am                      w 
It's a problem.  I'm really only on once.. i swear ;)
jshafer
response 68 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 12 00:28 UTC 1997

Hmm.  Is there any way, while online, to see how many people 
are in the queue?  There are myriad commands to let us see how
many people are logged in.  And when you are in the queue you 
can hit  =  to see your position.  What about when you are 
logged in?

And, just out of curiosity, how long has the queue been in place?

Thanks, and sorry for repeating myself.  I hope it's clear this time?

senna
response 69 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 13 03:28 UTC 1997

man, queue's been in place for ages.. it's so much better than the old system.
hassle free, as long as you're williung to wait for a while.
valerie
response 70 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 13 21:16 UTC 1997

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jshafer
response 71 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 14 05:59 UTC 1997

Thank you, Valerie.
Senna:  Yes, I agree, the queue's great.  It was, however, installed
while I was gone and was a bit of a surprise when I returned.  
Therefore, I missed any discussion of it at the time.
remmers
response 72 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 14 14:26 UTC 1997

Reaction to the queue at the time it was installed was
definitely mixed, partly because there were a few kinks that
hadn't been worked out yet. Seems to be quite reliable now, and
I agree that it's a big improvement over the Russian Roulette
telnetting that people had to do before.
mary
response 73 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 14 14:34 UTC 1997

There are probably some folks too who are paying by the
minute for their ISP connection and who are unable to
wait in the queue for very long.  So for them life took
a turn for the worse. ;-)
valerie
response 74 of 187: Mark Unseen   May 14 14:41 UTC 1997

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