On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 11:33, Marty Richards wrote:
> Hi Sluggers,
>
> Interesting problem with a Telstra Bigstink BPALogin connection.
>
> It has been working passably well for a couple years, but now...
>
> The symptoms are:
>
> *) the connection is working
> *) we're getting an IP address assigned
> *) we can resolve the name and ftp to the dce-server
>
> but BPALogin fails with "other-error".
>
> Looking in bpalogin.c this error can be caused by half a dozen infrequent
> conditions. We changed the code to identify which condition and found its
> the last item - "other error". We're now referring to this as the
> "other-other error".
>
> Has anyone else encountered a similar issue? Any thoughts on possible
> courses of action?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Marty
I've had this happen to me a couple of times. It just went away after a
while, generally while I was still digging into it.
I _think_ that getting a new DHCP lease helped - I had a theory that
someone else had the same IP and thus was screwing things up, but I
couldn't be sure.
Stephen
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