Re: Marinetti Telnet Problem...

[Tony Cianfaglione <ab616@chebucto.ns.ca>]

> On 13 Aug 1999, Joe Kohn wrote:
> 
> > I just tried it and got right in, with no problem at all using the Telnet
> > application that's included with Marinetti.
> > 
> > It could be that when you tried it, chebucto.ns.ca was slow to respond and
> > the Telnet application just timed out while waiting for a response. So, try
> > it again, until you are successful.

   Checking all the DNS numbers, modem init string etc and getting a good
PPP connection, I select telnet and it asks to:?  I type: chebucto.ns.ca
and press return.  It replies: looking up chebucto.ns.ca...found, opening
connection [OA-E=echo ESC=close].......

.....and I sit and wait.  20 attempts at waiting 4 minutes each attempt
(better part of an hour).  No logins page or prompts, no error
messages.  The only key that will work at this time is ESC to close the
connection (which never opened to begin with).  :-(

   I am running a ROM01 GS, System 6.0.1, GUPP 1.07, various cdevs and
da's (just the regular stuff - GSCII+, Shadowrite, Balloon - nothing
strange or experimental and no screen savers).  Could something be
interferring with the telnet application? Are there known conflicts?

> > If it's not a timeout problem, maybe it would be best to contact the ISP to
> > ask what DNS addresses to use (for Marinetti's configuration options).
> > Although in theory it shouldn't matter, I had a heck of a time making Telnet
> > connections until I asked my ISP which DNS IP addresses to use, and bingo,
> > using the ones they suggested has caused Marinetti to perform wonderfully
> > for months.

They checked their numbers and they were the same ones they had already
given me.  

I'm stumped!  :-(