Grex Helpers Conference Item 82

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25 new of 162 responses total.

cyklone

response 125 of 162:

Sep 10 12:00 UTC 1999

I've experienced what Dave has mentioned. It seems to come and go, but
last week there were many times I would suddenly get the dreaded NO
CARRIER message. Since I do live on the same side of town as Dave, I
wonder if it isn't related to the horrible phone lines, perhaps
exacerbated by the increased amount of phone work that takes place this
time of year. If this is true, though, our problems should decrease, as my
Ameritech friend says most of the installment "rush" is over.

mooncat

response 126 of 162:

Sep 10 13:30 UTC 1999

I've had some troubles getting randomly disconnected as well. <shrugs>
Generally happens to me in party though.

dpc

response 127 of 162:

Sep 10 13:49 UTC 1999

Since I also M-Net from the same computer/phone line, and *never*
have random disconnections on M-Net, I'm sure that this is a Grex
problem, not a phone line problem.

mdw

response 128 of 162:

Sep 10 22:31 UTC 1999

It could just be that your brand of modem doesn't like our brand of
modem.  Kind of like cats and dogs.

tpryan

response 129 of 162:

Sep 11 00:27 UTC 1999

        Kinda like Apples and Intells?

response 130 of 162:

Sep 11 02:49 UTC 1999

I've also been disconnected a number of times the last few weeks.
It seems to happen more often in conferences if I hold down the space
bar a couple seconds to page through an item. Have also seen it happen
in Lynx.

bdh1

response 131 of 162:

Sep 11 08:22 UTC 1999

Odd. I seem to have entered three identical items in this .cf.  I
entered the first, and then attempted to add updated info and was
'disconnected' which with an autodial reconnect seems to instead
resulted in the three separate but identical postings.  I wonder if it
is a 9/9/99 sort of thingy (outside of grex)?  I also could not get a
connection for some time to any of my local POPs (getting an 'unable to
dial' intercept) and finally it resorted to dialing the toll free 800
number which in fact worked which I was then connected to even though
now I think I am back on my local POP?!?!

pfv

response 132 of 162:

Sep 15 14:22 UTC 1999

Trying 204.212.46.130...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused


Same with grex.org & cyberspace.org - and we're now down to 10 users..

Annon was on mnet and typed to me of this problem - he was totally
incapable of reaching grex. What gives?

gull

response 133 of 162:

Sep 15 15:07 UTC 1999

I get 'Connection refused' using telnet, too...I'm currently connected via
ssh, which is working just fine.  Wow, Grex gets fast with only 9 users
connected...

jep

response 134 of 162:

Sep 15 15:25 UTC 1999

Backtalk is working fine.

jor

response 135 of 162:

Sep 15 17:54 UTC 1999

        phones: I also have been getting disco'd, typically
        while in party, perhaps a dozen or more times in the
        past week.

dpc

response 136 of 162:

Sep 15 18:10 UTC 1999

I was unable to get in on the *dialins* this morning around 9:30,
so it wasn't just a telnet problem.

dpc

response 137 of 162:

Sep 15 18:29 UTC 1999

I'm getting a mysterious error when I read some e-mail.
The apostrophe (') is replaced with "m-^R".  Does anyone know
what is causing this?  Is there any way to set my e-mail so
that this doesn't happen?  Thanx.

scg

response 138 of 162:

Sep 15 20:30 UTC 1999

When you connect on the dial-ins, you dial into a terminal server, which then
automatically telnets you over to Grex.  The only way to access Grex without
telnetting is on the console (or via ssh).  I'm guessing inetd probably
died, and somebody probably restarted it, but I don't know for sure.

remmers

response 139 of 162:

Sep 16 01:51 UTC 1999

Re resp:137 - It looks like you're getting email messages from
folks who put 8-bit characters in them, but that something
along the line is substituting a symbolic code for such characters.
It's not clear to me whether it's something on Grex or something
in your local setup.  You might try putting the line

        PAGER='more -r'

in your .mailrc file and seeing if that makes a difference.

dpc

response 140 of 162:

Sep 16 17:41 UTC 1999

Thanks, remmers!

remmers

response 141 of 162:

Sep 16 19:22 UTC 1999

Did my suggesetion work?

response 142 of 162:

Sep 18 20:55 UTC 1999

Couldn't dial in this afternoon. Grex starts up, tells me about
birthdays and mail, then asks for login again...and again...
telnetted in to post this. Same problem with -3000 and -5041.

dpc

response 143 of 162:

Sep 21 18:19 UTC 1999

I was disconnected *again* twice within just the past few minutes.
Is any staff person working to track down the reason for these
repeated disconnects?  At least I can see from the reports of
others that it's not just me...

cmcgee

response 144 of 162:

Sep 21 18:21 UTC 1999

That's funny.  I haven't had any disconnects that I know of in over a month.
I'm often on for a long time, but I also use *70 as a dial-in prefix because
of my call-waiting feature.  Maybe it protects me against random line noise
too?

rcurl

response 145 of 162:

Sep 21 19:52 UTC 1999

No disconnects, but the systems 'hangs' for minutes at a time, now and then.

scott

response 146 of 162:

Sep 21 21:00 UTC 1999

I have routed around a floky terminal server report.  But disconnects are by
no means a universal problem.  I haven't been disconnected in ages, myself.

Maybe we are getting more line noise than usual.  An error correcting modem
link would appear to "hang" while riding out a burst of noise.

katie

response 147 of 162:

Sep 21 22:54 UTC 1999

Two unrelated things: Someone tried to log in as me Mon night.

loginid 'patti' has been logged on for over 24 hrs.

Dunno if either of these things is a problem.

response 148 of 162:

Sep 22 00:16 UTC 1999

I have some things-seem-to-hang-while-the-modems-deal-with-line-noise
problems on about a third of my calls to grex; disconnects are somewhat
less frequent.  Reading of a failed login attempt or two when i log in
is routine.