[Dxspider-support] Bad file descriptor - FIXED

[Paul M Dunphy]

     First of all, thanks for all the suggestions.  I guess Hank, 
K8DD, was the closest to pointing me in the right direction.  It was 
the network.  An insidious quirk, too.  You always think, when 
debugging this stuff, what was the last thing I changed?

     Turned out I had upgraded the firmware in my router yesterday or 
the day before.  I thought about that, but all seemed to have gone 
well.  All the computers on the LAN were talking to each other and to 
the WAN.  I never would have suspected it, but somehow it stopped 
outgoing telnet connections on my LAN *except* for the connection to 
the VE7CC-1 node.  Why I could connect to VE7CC-1 (telnet), but not 
N5IN-2, I can't explain.  I narrowed it down fairly quickly once I 
became suspicious of telnet.  I discovered that no system on my LAN 
could telnet anywhere outside.

     A hard reset of the router fixed it, and I'm happily connected 
to N5IN-2 now.  Go figure.  Why it would manifest itself as a "Bad 
file descriptor" is still a mystery, but that's what it did.  Good 
thing K8DD recalled that error when he had network problems.  And 
another reason to get this running under Linux.

73/DX Paul VE1DX (a/k/a VE1DXI)