[Dxspider-support] Connection Closed by Foreign Host

[Dirk Koopman]

It is *SPECIFICALLY* not "recommended" to run a DXSpider installation on 
port 23. Apart from the security aspects (one has to run as root to be 
able to do it all), port 23 has a load of hidden protocol associated 
which DXSpider does not support well or (mostly) at all.

I thought I had made this abundantly clear in the installation manual, 
but it seems I was wrong.

My (slightly politer version of) Linus Torvalds moment:

In this case, I am sorry but, if it breaks you get to keep all the pieces.

Dirk G1TLH

On 29/01/15 00:25, Dave Trainor wrote:
> I have a report from a user on the KY4XX-3 cluster that my telnet
> connection is returning the following on a connect:
>
> telnet dxc.ky4xx.com
>
> Trying 198.73.30.100...
>
> Connected to dxc.ky4xx.com (198.73.30.100).
>
> Escape character is '^]'.
>
> Connection closed by foreign host.
>
> However I have node links up and running just fine, and other users
> connected via telnet, the only difference is that my other users are
> using various windows telnet programs and this error above is from a
> user running Linux and telnetting from the bash command prompt, as far
> as I know that should make no difference.
>
> Anyone able to test for me and let me know what they get?  Or any ideas
> on what might be happening? If I have one person getting denied a
> connection then I have many more I don’t know about so am concerned to
> get this figured out.
>
> The error would normally indicate that telnet/DXSpider is not listening
> on the port, but it Is, since I have other users on and working fine, am
> stumped at the moment.
>
> System is dxc.ky4xx.com (198.73.30.100) on port 23, also web cluster
> page on port 80
>
> The user that gets the above, gets the web page in a browser just fine,
> and is able to connect to other clusters.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dave N8ZFM, sysop of KY4XX-3  dxc.ky4xx.com
>
>
>
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