[Dxspider-support] Connection Refused

[Dave Court]

Dirk
I'm afraid it definitely is occuring on 'sh/dx' and 'who' and also 
'sh/qrz'. Is it a PERL problem? It also happens on my own terminal over 
the LAN.
73s Dave


Dirk Koopman wrote:
> Dave Court wrote:
>> Dear All
>> I'm currently running V1.55 build 0.9 on a Linux Slackware OS at 
>> EI7SDX. I have an intermittent problem which started about 4 months 
>> ago. Essentially from time to time (sometimes quite regularly) when 
>> any user initiates a command e.g. sh/dx, sh/qrz, who etc. the 
>> following comment is returned:
>> "IO::Socket::INET: connect: Connection refused"
> 
> I can't see how this can happen on a normal command: e.g. sh/dx, who 
> because it isn't doing one of these. However, I *can* see it happening 
> on sh/qrz, sh/contest etc because these *are* doing a socket connect.
> 
>>
>> Once this occurrs if the same command is initiated almost immediately 
>> it generally works correctly.
> 
> Sounds like the normal slowness of the internet to me. However, there 
> does seem to be a case for an improved error message.
> 
>>
>> Is this a common problem? Any ideas on a cure?
> 
> No (AFAIK).
> 
> Dirk G1TLH
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