[FADCA] Re: FPACs may need to be totally rebooted

[Chuck Hast]

On 11/3/06, C Schuman <k4gbb at earthlink.net> wrote:

> bud Thompson wrote:
> > Deltona Thursday Nov 3 0640E
> >
> > HI, Charlie-
> >
> > From time to time there is a lot of apparent repetitive activity
> > between K4GBB-8 and N4PLZ-8 on port 9.  Maybe it is okay - seems to
> > have calmed down.
> >
> > I think the nodes list on Orlando is growing again - and there are
> > some of the old ones there that I can't get to.
> >
> > With the recent changes it appears that the entire machine (or some
> > sub part outta my pay grade) may need to be rebooted in order for
> > fpacnode to work.  I connected to KP4DJT-8 from Orlando and the Nodes
> > command results in and unknown command response.
> > This was the case with Orlando, DeLand, and Melbourne.  This morning I
> > Putty into Melbourne and the N, WP, and Telpac commands would not work
> > - large timeout to get back to node prompt.  I did a shutdown -r now
> > and after the machine came back up the fpacnode worked as advertised -
> > Except the Telpac node is giving an error message - I doubt related to
> > the recent changes.  Here is what I get:
> >
> > *** Connected
> >
> > Winlink 2000 Telnet Logon OK
> > Testing RMS Lite Telnet Server...Please report problems to
> > rmuething at cfl.rr.com <mailto:rmuething at cfl.rr.com>
> >
> > Keyboard connections: Type I for info, H for Help
> >
> >
> > [WL2K-0.5.7-B2FIHM$]
> > Connected to CMS  >
> > *** [144] Telpac server call not recognized
> > INFO: Connection closed by PMBO
> >
> > *** 0000 - Remote Station cleared connection
> >
> > * * *
> > That might be related to the fact I've not yet REGISTERED W4MLB-10
> > Telpac node at winlink.org. - I'll do that today.
> >
> > Now in the case of DeLand - it likely needs to be rebooted as well,
> > but I'll leave that up to N3PPC to do locally.  There the Telpac
> > command takes a long time to respond but does work.
> >
> > 73,
> >
> > bud N0IA
> > 386 574 4124
> > 386 956 0386 Sprint Cell
> >
> For those who may Not have seen Bernard's Message about Cleaning up the
> WP DB...
> He suggested that the WP server be shutdown til Sunday. This will give
> Everyone a chance to clean up their local WP dB.
>
> I am about to make the rounds and  killall fpacwpd. If you restart fpac
> between now and Sunday night - issue the comand
>
> killall -KILL fpacwpd
> to stop the WP Data base. By Sunday night everyone should have updated and run wpmaint.
>
> During this time the fpac N cmd will NOT work.
>
It would appear that all of the level 2 connectivity goes away, as I can not
get a outbound connection to work when I give it explicit routing. I guess
that wp is tied to things even deeper than we thought, but if we can clean
up the network it is worth it to remove all of the non-working calls.

I just tried to establish connections using the remote address and get nothing


-- 
Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
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