[nos-bbs] Trouble connecting to BBS with telnet

[Michael Fox - N6MEF]

Hi Jack,

Interesting.  I tried commenting out the second search string and wait
interval and it works now.  I guess this is a JNOS bug.  

The forwarding entry now looks like:

n0ary
tcp 11.22.33.44 12345
+N0ARY
* 5
.bbs n6mef
#+N0ARY
#* 5
n0ary
wb6yru
------------

As seen in a manual telnet session and in a wireshark capture of the
actually forwarding session, N0ARY definitely does respond to "bbs n6mef"
with a prompt containing the search text.  So those two lines *should* be
valid.  But when those two lines are not commented, out JNOS just sits there
and sends nothing.  When those two lines are commented out, JNOS sends
"[JNOS-2.0j.2.SCC.1-IHM$]" and the session proceeds.  (The .SCC.1 indicates
our local version number).  So, the search string in the forwarding file
seems to correct and I guess this is a bug in JNOS.

Certainly, the fact that the session hangs and JNOS eventually crashes must
be a bug.

Maiko:  let me know if you need me to gather any debug info and, if so, how
(I haven't done that before)

RE mbox fbb:  It is currently set to 0.  But I tried all three values and,
as expected, it had no effect on this particular problem.  The manual
doesn't provide any guidance on what this should be set to under what
conditions.  Based on the text in the manual, I'm guessing that a setting of
2 may be more optimal.  Is that recommended?  

Thanks again,

M



Thanks for responding.  "mbox fbb" is current not set.  

-----Original Message-----
From: nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
Of Jack Eifer
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 10:54 AM
To: TAPR xNOS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [nos-bbs] Trouble connecting to BBS with telnet

Michael,

I also forward with n0ary. The only difference I can see between our forward
scripts is I do not use the '+N0ARY' and '*5' statements. 

I assume the sysop has you setup as a bbs---not a user.

Also, how is your Jnos 'mb fbb' command set? Is is it set to 0, 1, 2 or 3?  

Jack,  AA6HF



On Nov 2, 2012, at 10:16 AM, "Michael Fox - N6MEF" <n6mef at mefox.org> wrote:

> O.K.  I discovered *part* of my problem with the telnet forwarding entry.
I put a space before the connection commands, as it appears in the manual.
I didn't really understand the note in the manual about "full stop".  I
still don't but I'm guessing it has something to do with a "." in the first
column.  Anyway, I removed the space and now JNOS is fully connecting to the
remote system.
> 
> But it stops there.   It doesn't forward.  Here's my forward.bbs entry:
> 
> n0ary
> tcp 11.22.33.44 12345
> +N0ARY
> * 5
> .bbs n6mef
> +N0ARY
> * 5
> n0ary
> wb6yru
> ------------
> 
> There is a message in the wb6yru mailbox.
> 
> Behavior observed with wireshark:  JNOS connects, receives the first
prompt, sends "bbs n6mef", receives the next two prompts, and then ...
nothing.  It just sits there.
> 
> Here's what a manual session looks like:
> 
> $ telnet 11.22.33.44 12345 Trying 11.22.33.44...
> Connected to 11.22.33.44.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> [tcpd-N0ARY-4.1.1]
> bbs n6mef
> [ARY-4.1.1-H$]
> 
> 1) N0ARY [0]>
> bye
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> $
> 
> If I don't kill the session with "tcp reset <sessionID>" then JNOS crashes
with exit code 1.  (running latest JNOS:  2.0j.2)
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Michael
> N6MEF
> 
> 
> 
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