[Dxspider-support] Connecting to clusters via ip

[John Grove]

Filip,

Everything from the command line or telnet client works fine.  The only
problem occurs from within spider.

John
KE2OI

----- Original Message -----
From: "Filip Jonckers" <fjonckers at Interconnect.be>
To: <dxspider-support at dxcluster.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:42 AM
Subject: RE: [Dxspider-support] Connecting to clusters via ip


> Hi John,
>
> First try from a command line window - so you can test if the problem is
> related to Spider or on a operating system level...
>
> You're running win98?
>
> Open a MSDOS box ...
> can you do a ping to the IP address ?
> (ping 130.126.139.93)
>
> try to do a telnet connection from the command line
> telnet 130.126.139.93  8000
>
> does this work ?
>
> The listening port used depends on the choice of the sysop...
> but prefered choices are indeed 7300 and 9000
> I wouldn't use 8000 or 8080 because they are often targets of hackers
> trying to find proxy servers (which use these portnumbers)
>
> Filip
> ON1AFN
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Grove
> Sent: Tue 5/21/2002 2:33 AM
> To: dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
> Cc:
> Subject: [Dxspider-support] Connecting to clusters via ip
>
>
>
> All,
>
> I am having a problem connecting to other clusters via the
> internet.  If the
> connect script contains a name (dns) the connect works fine.  If
> it contains
> an ip address, I get the following:
>
> This is my connect script:
>
> timeout 60
> connect telnet 130.126.139.93 8000
> 'login' 'ke2oi'
>
> This is the error I get:
>
> connect 8: timeout set to 60
> connect 8: timeout set to 60
> CONNECT 8: sort: telnet 130.126.139.93 8000 Bad File descriptor
> Use of unitialized value in subroutine entry at
> /spider/perl/msg.pm line 217
> Connect 5 failed to 130.126.139.93 8000 bad file descriptor
>
> This is version 56.954 running on a win 98 box.
>
> Thanks
> John KE2OI
>
>
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