At 08:22 PM 10/4/96 +1000, you wrote:
>
>I dont iknow about you guys, but there seems to be a lot of 33.6K modems
>with USR chips out there doing very wierd things. A number of my users
>have bought them and they are failing in all sorts of ways. Some dont
>respond at all, some wont create a socket but will run terminal mode,
>some will create a socket then after downloading a few bytes from a web
>site will lock up.
>
>Very strange...
>
>
>Russell from Australiagate.
>
>
>On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Robert Hanson wrote:
>
>>
>> do you control your pri and sec dns? this almost seems like a dns prob..
>> or your pm setup prob... we shall see...
>>
>> do you have a default host in the pm? i.e.
>>
>> show global
>>
>> is that the solaris box?
>>
>> then look at a port in the pm that is giving you this problem
>>
>> set sXX extended on
>> save SXX
>> show sXX
>>
>> does the host say "default"?
>>
>> if so... then...
>>
>> show table host
>>
>> if anything is there... id remove it if you control primary and secondary
>> dns...
>>
>> then... consider...
>>
>> set sXX host solaris-box-ip-address
>>
>> yet you need to do this for all ports if it fixes it...
>>
>> this has always fixed that problem for me...
>>
>> but i do pri and sec dns for me as well as pri and sec radius...
>>
>> sound right people :-?
>>
>>
>> --->
>> Robert H. Hanson Cutting Edge Communications, Inc. - blah,blah
>> Otis Orchards, Wa. Regional Commercial Internet Service Provider
>> (509) 927-9541 email: roberth@cet.com - http://www.cet.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Gene James wrote:
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>> >
>> > > From: Igor Brezac <igor@ipass.net>
>> > > Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 18:30:53 -0400 (EDT)
>> > > Subject: Radius unable to authenticate
>> > >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > My users are starting to get "Host is currently unavailable" when they
>> > > login. We use radius on Solaris and we have four PM2E, all users are
>> > > authenticated through their UNIX passpord file. Is there any way to
>> > > reduce the occurance of this error? We also have fair amount UNIX
>> > > accounts. Would Network Service like NIS(+) help?
>> >
>> > We are getting this like crazy lately. I've determined that is it occuring
>> > when USR modems call our newest SupraFAX 336 modems (ver 1.440-12 or
>> > better). It is absolutely repeatable. We run radius on a Linus box.
>> >
>> > I have not determined WHY this is happening, all the modems I have to test
>> > with do not exhibit this behavior!
>> >
>> > Gene James
>> > Westmoreland Online, Inc.
>> >
>>
>
>
byoung@oru.edu
Brian Young
Internet Systems Administrator