[Dxspider-support] Telnet logins not timing out

[Kelly Jones]

Andy and the group,

I see this problem quite often at DX-Central (KE9KD).  When a user gets
disconnected abnormally, such as a power outage at his QTH or his computer
locks up and he must reboot, they are not able to log back in because
Spider thinks they are still connected.  I must manually disconnect them
before they are able to log back in.

I have not had the time to isolate the problem, but I frequently get
emails from people complaining they are locked out.

Now, having said that, I have not done a CSV update for a couple of months
and I am using the C telnet clinet, not the Perl listeners.  I have two
ports open on my cluter, 23 and 6904 and it does not seem to be port
specific.

I have not had a chance to enable the Perl listener to see if the problem
exists there, but there is certainly an issue with the C "listener" and
(x)inetd.

Kelly - KE9KD
http://www.dxcentral.com



On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Andy Cook, G4PIQ wrote:

> Thanks to Ian for his help on this one. I was actually seeing something a
> bit odd where some sessions stayed up for 8 hours after disconnection, but
> haven't been able to replicate it.
>
> However - the fact that a telnet session stays up for even 15 mins or so
> after a hard disconnection is giving me some problems in our using the thing
> for the IARU contest this weekend where folks don't want the complication of
> having to think about logging back in with a different callsign (brains
> already overloaded!). Is there any way to change the telnet timeout for
> recognising that a user has gone?
>
> Andy, G4PIQ
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:dxspider-support-bounces at dxcluster.org]On Behalf Of Andy Cook,
> G4PIQ
> Sent: 07 July 2003 08:09
> To: dxspider-support at dxcluster.org
> Subject: [Dxspider-support] Telnet logins not timing out
>
>
> Thanks to all for the quick responses on what to do to the announce command.
>
> One further question - I'm not seeing telnet logins timeout if the user
> connection drops and folks are left hanging in - the login telnet process
> needs manually killing. I presume I've forgotten to do something - any
> clues.
>
> Redhat 9 + Spider 1.51, 57.253
>
> Andy, G4PIQ
>
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