Evening all
First, thank you to those who gave suggestions on possible fixes to my
telnet problems. For those who don't remember I had a problem where telnet
to a new RH box would die after 10 or 20 minutes.
I only found the cause thanks to a power failure this morning which was
long enough to flatten one of our UPS' batteries and cause several
computers to reboot. There on the screen of an almost never used Win95 box
in the corner of the office was the message "Address conflict with ....."
After many wasted hours trying to diagnose and fix the problem it took me 1
minute to change the ip address and smack myself in the head numerous
times.
I don't know why the problem only manifested itself with telnet. I had
copied several gigabytes of data to that machine via FTP. SSH sessions had
stayed up for hours. Maybe they use some more resilient application
protocol.
I still feel like an idiot.
best regards
Steven
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