Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2000 10:17:59 -0500 (EST) From: bv@wjv.com To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Strange fetchmail/freebsd/verio problem Message-ID: <200012071518.KAA58009@mail.wanlogistics.net>
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Reply to: bv@wjv.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL61 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I maintain some servers on a Level3 backbone. While waiting for our DS3 and the ATM to come up so I can get ADSL service from 'myself', I've been using my old dialup account on Verio. Everthing was fine until last night. Then the fetchmail stopped working. I found that no matter what I did, telnet, ftp, fetchmail, to any of the machines there I would get a login prompt. I would then get a slow entry for the login named, equally slow for password, and then things such as an 'ls' would either never complete or take 2 to 5 minutes. I went to the facilty - and everything looked normal there. I had fast access to everywhere in the world [100Mbit uplink into ther OC48/OC192 network]. This was about 1AM. Nothing wrong so I came back. THis AM the same thing. I called my partner and he could access all the web sties we host with no problem, login in remotely, etc. I still could not. I do some maintenance on a machine across the state. I performed an ssh loign there, and then was able to access the machines as I normally would. It's just this account coming in from Verio just wont access web sites, ftp, etc. NOTHING has been changed, it just stopped. The last changes to this system were about 6 weeks ago. I'm totally confused at this moment. My dialup is performing PPP and NAT and it works flawlessly. I can go to any other sites in the world and have no problem - as the ssh above shows. So what do I look for, what debuggers do I run, etc. The web machines are FreeBSD 4.0, and the mail if FreeBSD 3.4. THe only thing I see in the logs there on the failed mail transers are POP timeouts. If it were only mail I could see perhaps a password has changed. BUt I can access that machine with my password if I got in via another route - which is a C&W system. Anybody have any clues. Until I get this fixed, and/or change providers [I'd just as soon not go through that as we hope to have our own ADSL up in a month], I'm ftp'ing the my mailbox on the mail server to the system across the state, and then transfering back. It's as if one I get into the machine it doesn't like the IP's or that Verio is cutting me to 10cps or something. Customer service at Verio [at least in the past] has been 1+ hour on hold so I'd just as not go that route if I can. Anybody have any idea, or what I can turn on to trace this problem. Bill Vermillion -- bv @ wjv.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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