Subj : telnet_gate
To : Hemo
From : Digital Man
Date : Sun Sep 17 2000 09:15 am
RE: telnet_gate
BY: Hemo to Digital Man on Sun Sep 17 2000 02:51 pm
> > > 9/12 09:03:42p !TELGATE ERROR 10038 sending on socket 404
> > > 9/12 09:03:42p !ERROR 10038 closing socket 404
> > > 9/12 09:03:42p Node 1 Telnet gate to myopia.ujoint.org finished
> >
> > This error simply means you aborted the connection attempt. Try being pat
> > and waiting for the real connection failure message.
>
> OK, got my unix machine back up and running and started trying all this stuf
> again.
>
> Still don't work. I let it sit for 133 minutes ( I went shopping ) and I st
> got no error, it just sat there.
>
> I have a LinkSys broadband router that links my internal network to the outs
> world. My internal network is 192.168.1. I have connectivity between my
> BBS machine (internal network 192.168.1.100 or delta.ujoint.org) and my unix
> computer (internal network 192.168.1.50 or myopia.ujoint.org). I tested my
> connectivity by using ping, ftp, and telnet. These all work fine from either
> machine to either machine.
>
> Try running '*telgate myopia.ujoint.org' causes you to just hang there with
> connection. running '*telgate delta.ujoint.org' works. Now I am really
> confusinededed...ded.
>
> This behavior is identical if I am telneted into my BBS from inside my netwo
> or from an outside (other side of my router) host.
>
> my 'hosts' file( same on both my systems ):
> 192.168.1.100 delta delta.ujoint.org
> 192.168.1.50 myopia myopia.ujoint.org
>
>
> Since I do networking support as part of my real job, this is one of those
> things that I am determined to figure out why it doesn't work, and I am
> stumped. I don;t know what's ahppening inside of the baja code for
> 'telnet_gate', but that's the only place I can figure this is going wrong...
>
> I have only one NIC on both systems, the IP's are static, SBBS has been boun
> to <ANY> and is now bound to 192.168.1.100 and all results are the same.
>
> Help?
I really don't have a clue as to why it isn't working. The telnet_gate function
simply opens a socket, binds it, and attempts a connect to the address (and
port) specified. Nothing complex. Here is the actual code: