• Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)

    From Deepthaw@1:103/705 to All on Thu Jun 29 08:35:42 2017
    I've noticed my system wasn't receiving new messages from the BBSlink network. When I force a call out and watch my events, I see it log in successfully, then:

    QNET-FTP: KK4QBN.qwk NOT downloaded socket_error=60 (no new messages?)

    When I try to upload a REP packet I get:

    !ftp_put failed socket_error=60

    Downloads from DOVE-Net are working fine. I tried ftping into kk4qbn.synchro.net from my work iMac, and was able to login and download the qwk file okay that way.

    Any way to determine where the issue is?

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Thu Jun 29 11:00:16 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to All on Thu Jun 29 2017 08:35 am

    I've noticed my system wasn't receiving new messages from the BBSlink network. When I force a call out and watch my events, I see it log in successfully, then:

    QNET-FTP: KK4QBN.qwk NOT downloaded socket_error=60 (no new messages?)

    When I try to upload a REP packet I get:

    !ftp_put failed socket_error=60

    Downloads from DOVE-Net are working fine. I tried ftping into kk4qbn.synchro.net from my work iMac, and was able to login and download the qwk file okay that way.

    Any way to determine where the issue is?

    exec/qnet-ftp.bin (.src) uses PASV FTP mode by default. It may be that the BBSlink network hub isn't support PASV FTP reliably. Some other FTP clients (e.g. your iMac) may use active FTP mode by default.

    You can experiment by commenting out the following line in qnet-ftp.src:

    set _ftp_mode FTP_PASV

    Rebuilding with baja:

    > baja qnet-ftp.src

    And see if that resolves the issue. If it does, then the hub has an issue that needs to be resolved. This FAQ describes the issue and solutions: http://wiki.synchro.net/faq:tcpip#ftp_nat

    digital man

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  • From Denn Gray@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Thu Jun 29 13:05:52 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to All on Thu Jun 29 2017 08:35 am

    I've noticed my system wasn't receiving new messages from the BBSlink network. When I force a call out and watch my events, I see it log in successfully, then:

    QNET-FTP: KK4QBN.qwk NOT downloaded socket_error=60 (no new messages?)

    use the KK4QBN-FTP bin file that comes with the BBSLink packet.

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  • From Lith@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Thu Jun 29 11:45:06 2017
    I've noticed my system wasn't receiving new messages from the BBSlink network. When I force a call out and watch my > > events, I see it log in successfully, then:
    QNET-FTP: KK4QBN.qwk NOT downloaded socket_error=60 (no new messages?)
    When I try to upload a REP packet I get:
    !ftp_put failed socket_error=60

    I get the same error(s) as well for BBSLink.

    Lith,
    asirta.com

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  • From Deepthaw@1:103/705 to Denn Gray on Fri Jun 30 09:25:08 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Denn Gray to Deepthaw on Thu Jun 29 2017 01:05 pm

    use the KK4QBN-FTP bin file that comes with the BBSLink packet.

    Tried that last night and it didn't seem to fix things. I'm going to try what Digital Man recommended (making a change and recompling QNET-FTP) later tonight before I go shout at KK4QBN.

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  • From Deepthaw@1:103/705 to KK4QBN on Fri Jun 30 11:45:34 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Lith to Deepthaw on Thu Jun 29 2017 11:45 am

    I've noticed my system wasn't receiving new messages from the BBSlink
    network. When I force a call out and watch my > > events, I see it log
    in successfully, then:
    QNET-FTP: KK4QBN.qwk NOT downloaded socket_error=60 (no new messages?)
    When I try to upload a REP packet I get:
    !ftp_put failed socket_error=60

    I get the same error(s) as well for BBSLink.

    Okay, I've tried:

    Having the network callout use the qwk-kk4qbn.bin module
    Recompling a new version of qnet-ftp with the pasv option changed (as recommended by Digital Man)

    Neither seems to have fixed the issue. it was working fine until about a week ago I think? Most recent message I have is around June 22.

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  • From Denn Gray@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Fri Jun 30 13:15:20 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to KK4QBN on Fri Jun 30 2017 11:45 am

    I've noticed my system wasn't receiving new messages from the BBSlink
    network. When I force a call out and watch my > > events, I see it log
    in successfully, then:
    QNET-FTP: KK4QBN.qwk NOT downloaded socket_error=60 (no new messages?)
    When I try to upload a REP packet I get:
    !ftp_put failed socket_error=60

    I get the same error(s) as well for BBSLink.

    Okay, I've tried:

    Having the network callout use the qwk-kk4qbn.bin module
    Recompling a new version of qnet-ftp with the pasv option changed (as recommended by Digital Man)

    Neither seems to have fixed the issue. it was working fine until about a week ago I think? Most recent message I have is around June 22.

    I'm wondering if you forgot to add the conference numbers to each conference.


    Press (INS)ert on Networked Sub-boards, Click INSert again, add BBSLink message areas one at a time, make sure
    conference numbers match!

    And it should be this simple!

    9001 General (Anyone can post on general, No anonymous or private posts)
    9003 Sysops Only (SYSOPS ONLY)

    9005 InterBBS Scores (READ ONLY AREA, THIS IS WHERE SCORES WILL BE POSTED)
    And Bulletins Sofware will pull from this area.

    9007 Legend of the Red Dragon (Chat for LORD, PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED) 9009 Operation Overkill II (Chat for OOII, PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED) 9011 Planets the Exploration of Space (Chat for TEOS, PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED) 9013 Tradewars 2002 (Chat for TW2K, PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED) 9015 BRE, FE, TAL, FH (Chat for BRE, etc. PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED)
    9017 Usurper (Chat for USPR, PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED) 9019 Darklands (Chat for DKLN, PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED) 9021 BCR Games Server (Chat for BCR, PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED) 9023 Operation Overkill (Chat for OOII, PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED) 9025 Netrunner (Chat for Netrunner, PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED)
    9027 All other game discussion (Chat for all others, PRIVATE MSGS ALLOWED)

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  • From Deepthaw@1:103/705 to Denn Gray on Sat Jul 1 12:37:34 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Denn Gray to Deepthaw on Fri Jun 30 2017 01:15 pm

    I'm wondering if you forgot to add the conference numbers to each conference.

    That's not the problem - it was working fine for a while and messages were going in and out okay. This appears to be a problem even connecting to the FTP server correctly.

    (Although I did double-check the conference numbers - they're all correct.)

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  • From Denn Gray@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Sat Jul 1 13:17:44 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to Denn Gray on Sat Jul 01 2017 12:37 pm

    I'm wondering if you forgot to add the conference numbers to each conference.

    That's not the problem - it was working fine for a while and messages were going in and out okay. This appears to be a problem even connecting to the FTP server correctly.

    worth a try lol sorry I was no help on that one.

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 2 05:13:46 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to All on Thu Jun 29 2017 08:35:43

    I've noticed my system wasn't receiving new messages from the BBSlink network. When I force a call out and watch my events, I see it log in successfully, then:

    use the FTP script ".bin" file that was included in the BBSlink packet, if you had an earlier version of the packet, there is a link to the script on my main website.. sometimes routers do'nt like talking to mine when it comes to ftp.. something to do with not being able to do PASV mode, or either being forced into PASV mode.

    either way, the older baja script fixes this.

    This is explained in the setup file. "Or should be"

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Lith on Sun Jul 2 05:16:00 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Lith to Deepthaw on Thu Jun 29 2017 11:45:07

    !ftp_put failed socket_error=60

    I get the same error(s) as well for BBSLink.

    See past messages, are you sure you are getting upload errors? I have seen your system login and I "Think" download a packet before. check the readme files in the setup packet. it will tell you what to do.

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 2 05:20:12 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to Denn Gray on Fri Jun 30 2017 09:25:09

    use the KK4QBN-FTP bin file that comes with the BBSLink packet.

    Tried that last night and it didn't seem to fix things. I'm going to try what Digital Man recommended (making a change and recompling QNET-FTP) later tonight before I go shout at KK4QBN.
    [0m

    Your QWKID has the correct flags, res, and exemptions. since you have changed the Qnet script you may want to log back in and reset your pointers if your message areas have not populated.

    If you have issues beyond that, we will see what is going on.

    at times the network is dead, but still there is messages flowing atleast on a daily basis for the score files.. so if you do not at least get them there are issues.

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 2 05:22:34 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to KK4QBN on Fri Jun 30 2017 11:45:34

    Okay, I've tried:

    Having the network callout use the qwk-kk4qbn.bin module
    Recompling a new version of qnet-ftp with the pasv option changed (as recommended by Digital Man)

    Neither seems to have fixed the issue. it was working fine until about a week ago I think? Most recent message I have is around June 22.

    I will check your qnet settings and see if you were one of the systems affected by whatever happened to my message settings over a week ago. (deleted an area and it changed the qnet nodes scan areas)

    I'm going to reset your pointers also, hopefully any dupes will be filtered.

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 2 05:29:18 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to Denn Gray on Sat Jul 01 2017 12:37:34

    That's not the problem - it was working fine for a while and messages were going in and out okay. This appears to be a problem even connecting to the FTP server correctly.

    I reset your pointers to the 21st (a little before last week) but everything looks right, and your pointers show that your last message was downloaded on the 27th.

    I will check my logfiles to see if I can figure out whats up.

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS


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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 2 06:11:44 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 02 2017 05:29:19

    That's not the problem - it was working fine for a while and
    messages were going in and out okay. This appears to be a problem
    even connecting to the FTP server correctly.


    Check your outbound and see what your system is trying to send me, your connection is timing out while your system is attempting to upload a rep file.

    maybe a very large file, or dupes or something?

    make sure you are only sending BBSLINK conferences.

    7/2 06:06:18 ftp 0046 DS94 logged in (7 today, 288 total)
    7/2 06:06:19 ftp 0046 DS94 uploading: /sbbs/data/file/0119.rep in active mode 7/2 06:08:28 ftp 0046 !DATA ERROR -1 (110) connecting to client XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX port 2068 on socket 50
    7/2 06:08:28 ftp 0046 DS94 logged off

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

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  • From Deepthaw@1:103/705 to KK4QBN on Sun Jul 2 11:14:18 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 02 2017 06:11 am

    Check your outbound and see what your system is trying to send me, your connection is timing out while your system is attempting to upload a rep file.

    I've completely nuked my BBSlink setup and set it all back up again. It's no longer attempting to upload a REP, but it's still getting socket error 60 on downloads. (had some incorrect information a few times, ignore those attempts)

    This is using qnet-ftp, qwk_kk4qbn, and a custom qnet-ftp I compiled
    to change the transfer mode.

    I reset my message pointers, and if I connect via telnet, it offers and sends the QWK packet via zmodem just fine.

    I think I've eliminated everything I can on my end. I *was* able to connect and download some stuff via the FTP client on my Windows box, no idea if that helps.

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 2 15:32:42 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to KK4QBN on Sun Jul 02 2017 11:14:19

    I've completely nuked my BBSlink setup and set it all back up again. It's no longer attempting to upload a REP, but it's still getting socket error 60 on downloads. (had some incorrect information a few times, ignore those attempts)

    Ok, I'll have to wait until I see another attemp, Just had one node login just fine (no messages waiting ofcourse) but the last two times I saw your qwkid login I saw an error 50 and 110 and you were trying to send a rep packet first.

    We'll see what happens.

    This is using qnet-ftp, qwk_kk4qbn, and a custom qnet-ftp I compiled
    to change the transfer mode.

    Yes, this should take care of any issues.. I don't know why it gives some people trouble and others it don't, Like you said, you ftpd to my server and downloaded a file, googlebot scans my areas, but I dont allow guest access for googlebot, and I do have qwknodes that are not erroring on my end (they just have no messages) I'll go back over all my router config again and see whats happening. something happened last week, I don't know what happened, cannot pinpoint it. message pointers were messed up, and qwknodes were all assigned conference numbers from dovenet instead of bbslink. but I manually fixed all that. but I still have'nt fully recoverd. I don't know exactly whats going on. but no one is missing much right now, just some scores.. I'll get on top of it tonight and let everyone know.

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 2 23:56:30 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 02 2017 15:32:43

    I've completely nuked my BBSlink setup and set it all back up again.
    It's no longer attempting to upload a REP, but it's still getting
    socket error 60 on downloads. (had some incorrect information a few
    times, ignore those attempts)

    as of 10:48pm your system is still timing out trying to upload a rep packet.

    7/2 22:48:51 ftp 0053 TX: 230-DS94 logged in.
    7/2 22:48:51 ftp 0053 TX: 230 You are allowed 240 minutes of use for this session.
    7/2 22:48:51 ftp 0053 RX: TYPE I
    7/2 22:48:51 ftp 0053 TX: 200 All files sent in BINARY mode.
    7/2 22:48:52 ftp 0053 RX: PORT XXX,XX,X,XXX,X,XXX
    7/2 22:48:52 ftp 0053 TX: 200 PORT Command successful.
    7/2 22:48:52 ftp 0053 RX: STOR KK4QBN.rep
    7/2 22:48:52 ftp 0053 DS94 uploading: /sbbs/data/file/0119.rep in active mode 7/2 22:48:52 ftp 0053 TX: 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for file transfer.
    7/2 22:48:52 ftp 0053 DATA socket 54 opened
    7/2 22:49:34 ftp 0048 !DATA ERROR -1 (110) connecting to client 172.31.5.129 port 1863 on socket 50
    7/2 22:49:34 ftp 0048 TX: 425 Error 110 connecting to socket
    7/2 22:49:34 ftp 0048 Socket closed by peer on receive (line 1170)
    7/2 22:49:34 ftp 0048 DS94 logged off

    if you did nuke the BBSlink setup and start over, I don't understand why its sending a rep packet unless there are some conference numbers mixed up somewhere. and earlier in the day the rep packet it was trying to upload appeared to be 18mb

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

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  • From Deepthaw@1:103/705 to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 3 00:12:10 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 02 2017 11:56 pm

    if you did nuke the BBSlink setup and start over, I don't understand why its sending a rep packet unless there are some conference numbers mixed up somewhere. and earlier in the day the rep packet it was trying to upload appeared to be 18mb

    I did a test message to force it to try another REP for testing purposes. The .rep sitting in my /data folder waiting to upload is only 1KB. :\

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 3 07:15:12 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 03 2017 00:12:10

    I did a test message to force it to try another REP for testing purposes. The .rep sitting in my /data folder waiting to upload is only 1KB. :\
    [0m

    Yeah, I don't get it man, see my previous message.. I really don't know where to go from here.

    your account was working fine earlier right?

    and I set your pointers to the 1 before the last message on every board to allow for a small packet, but to assure you get a packet. it just will not allow you to upload and I have no idea..

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

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  • From Deepthaw@1:103/705 to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 3 08:10:10 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 03 2017 07:15 am

    your account was working fine earlier right?

    Yep - you can see some earlier posts by me in a few of the groups. That's what gets me, it still pulls from vertrauen for DOVEnet just fine, and was working fine with yours until it just stopped one day.

    I've deleted my test message and will delete the REP packet when I get a chance, but when I did so last night it still had timeout errors with the download - but this time it was saying error 0 (no new messages) even though I'd logged in and reset my message pointers repeatedly.

    Is it possible to pull the messages from another BBS running the network in case our two systems just hate each other like a married couple who voted for Clinton & Trump?

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 3 09:34:12 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 03 2017 07:15:13

    I did a test message to force it to try another REP for testing
    purposes. The .rep sitting in my /data folder waiting to upload is
    only 1KB. :\ [0m

    From what I can see with the logs and reading up more, our routers are pretty much going into a deadlock, but the PORT command is working correctly:

    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 230 You are allowed 240 minutes of use for this session.
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 RX: TYPE I
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 200 All files sent in BINARY mode.
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 RX: PORT 172,31,5,129,14,1
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 200 PORT Command successful.

    So that gets you into PASV mode correctly. But then when you go to upload the REP packet, your system is trying to upload it in ACTIVE mode. so its opening a PASV data channel correctly, but not using it.

    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 RX: STOR KK4QBN.rep
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 DS94 uploading: /sbbs/data/file/0125.rep in active mode 7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for file transfer.
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 DATA socket 49 opened
    7/3 08:51:01 ftp 0045 !DATA ERROR -1 (110) connecting to client 172.31.5.129 port 3585 on socket 49
    7/3 08:51:01 ftp 0045 TX: 425 Error 110 connecting to socket
    7/3 08:51:01 ftp 0045 RX: TYPE I
    7/3 08:51:01 ftp 0045 TX: 200 All files sent in BINARY mode.
    7/3 08:51:01 ftp 0045 Socket closed by peer on receive (line 1170)
    7/3 08:51:01 ftp 0045 DS94 logged off

    From what I can get out of it, thats what it is doing.. I don't know though..

    for shits and giggles I even went as far as deleting your QWK account and creating another under a different user number, this is stricly a connection issue I assume.. Your router does'nt happen to be a F@ST does it? (sagecomm 4320 here).

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 3 09:44:46 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 03 2017 08:10:10

    your account was working fine earlier right?

    Yep - you can see some earlier posts by me in a few of the groups. That's what gets me, it still pulls from vertrauen for DOVEnet just fine, and was working fine with yours until it just stopped one day.

    Yeah, and thats what I'm having a hard time understanding. I've sit here and watched other accounts download with no issues whatsoever (none has sent a packet to me yet)

    I've deleted my test message and will delete the REP packet when I get a chance, but when I did so last night it still had timeout errors with the download - but this time it was saying error 0 (no new messages) even though I'd logged in and reset my message pointers repeatedly.

    As of a couple hours ago it is still trying to send it, see the other message I sent to you earlier. I've also completely deleted your qwk account here and set it up new under a different user number. same issue.

    Is it possible to pull the messages from another BBS running the network in case our two systems just hate each other like a married couple who voted for Clinton & Trump?

    Yes it is, you can pull it from ANY other system who would care to serve it to you. it would be nice to have another hub anyway for issues just like this.

    So if you can find anyone, that would be nice, or if someone would like to volunteer (HINT HINT).

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    Tim Smith (KK4QBN)
    KK4QBN BBS

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  • From Deepthaw@1:103/705 to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 3 09:30:38 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 03 2017 09:34 am

    From what I can see with the logs and reading up more, our routers are pretty much going into a deadlock, but the PORT command is working correctly:

    for shits and giggles I even went as far as deleting your QWK account and creating another under a different user number, this is stricly a connection issue I assume.. Your router does'nt happen to be a F@ST does it? (sagecomm 4320 here).

    My system is hosted on Amazon's EC2 web services, so I have zero control over the router. I'd *assume* it's all up to spec, since I can't see Amazon not having their routers setup correctly.

    I think I'll just stop tinkering with it for a while and let the problem stew. That fixes a surprising number of issues.

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  • From Deepthaw@1:103/705 to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 3 09:50:52 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 03 2017 09:44 am

    Yes it is, you can pull it from ANY other system who would care to serve it to you. it would be nice to have another hub anyway for issues just like this.

    So if you can find anyone, that would be nice, or if someone would like to volunteer (HINT HINT).

    If I could actually get the messages from your system, I'd volunteer! (Mine's running 24/7 on a hosted service, so I expect little to no downtime.)

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 3 13:49:40 2017

    On 2017 Jul 03 09:34:12, you wrote to Deepthaw:

    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 230 You are allowed 240 minutes of use for this session.
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 RX: TYPE I
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 200 All files sent in BINARY mode.
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 RX: PORT 172,31,5,129,14,1
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 200 PORT Command successful.

    So that gets you into PASV mode correctly. But then when you go to
    upload the REP packet, your system is trying to upload it in ACTIVE
    mode. so its opening a PASV data channel correctly, but not using it.

    for there to be PASV mode, the client should issue the PASV command and then perform the transaction... at least that's the way i see numerous ftp clients do it on my ftp server... i'm not aware of PASV being default and already active...

    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 RX: STOR KK4QBN.rep
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 DS94 uploading: /sbbs/data/file/0125.rep in active mode

    AFAIK, PASV should have been issued just before this STOR command...

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 3 12:09:02 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to KK4QBN on Sun Jul 02 2017 11:14 am

    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Sun Jul 02 2017 06:11 am

    Check your outbound and see what your system is trying to send me, your connection is timing out while your system is attempting to upload a rep file.

    I've completely nuked my BBSlink setup and set it all back up again. It's no longer attempting to upload a REP, but it's still getting socket error 60 on downloads. (had some incorrect information a few times, ignore those attempts)

    This is using qnet-ftp, qwk_kk4qbn, and a custom qnet-ftp I compiled
    to change the transfer mode.

    I reset my message pointers, and if I connect via telnet, it offers and sends the QWK packet via zmodem just fine.

    That's not really a test of FTP however.

    I think I've eliminated everything I can on my end. I *was* able to connect and download some stuff via the FTP client on my Windows box, no idea if that helps.

    Which FTP client (windows\system32\ftp.exe)? Were you logging into the *hub* via FTP and downloading?

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  • From Digital Man@1:103/705 to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 3 12:18:08 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 03 2017 09:34 am

    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 03 2017 07:15:13

    I did a test message to force it to try another REP for testing
    purposes. The .rep sitting in my /data folder waiting to upload is
    only 1KB. :\ [0m

    From what I can see with the logs and reading up more, our routers are pretty much going into a deadlock, but the PORT command is working correctly:

    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 230 You are allowed 240 minutes of use for this session.
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 RX: TYPE I
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 200 All files sent in BINARY mode.
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 RX: PORT 172,31,5,129,14,1
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 200 PORT Command successful.

    So that gets you into PASV mode correctly.

    No, the FTP PORT command is for active transfer mode (the server opens a connection back to the client). This is the opposite of PASV (passive) mode.

    But then when you go to upload
    the REP packet, your system is trying to upload it in ACTIVE mode. so its opening a PASV data channel correctly, but not using it.

    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 RX: STOR KK4QBN.rep
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 DS94 uploading: /sbbs/data/file/0125.rep in active mode 7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 TX: 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for file transfer.
    7/3 08:48:50 ftp 0045 DATA socket 49 opened
    7/3 08:51:01 ftp 0045 !DATA ERROR -1 (110) connecting to client 172.31.5.129 port 3585 on socket 49

    This indicates the FTP server is trying to open a connection back to the client (which is normal for ACTIVE FTP transfer mode) but failing. This is usually an indication of a problem on the client side (e.g. a firewall or NAT gateway allowing the incoming connection), but the cause could be on either side.

    Testing just the "dir" command with FTP clients in both active and passive mode should help identify the problem.

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 3 15:03:12 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 03 2017 09:30:38

    My system is hosted on Amazon's EC2 web services, so I have zero control over the router. I'd *assume* it's all up to spec, since I can't see Amazon not having their routers setup correctly.

    Ah, ok.. yeah thats a whole other monster, and kinda answeres the question "How can something like this up and happen and I not know about it" but you did say other QWK networks were not giving trouble, only BBSLink. but I cannot find ANYTHING out of the ordinary here, besides the fact that you are able to go into pasv mode, but then when you go to upload the rep packet it shows that you go into active mode.

    I think I'll just stop tinkering with it for a while and let the problem stew. That fixes a surprising number of issues.

    truthfully, that has happened to me a lot.

    We'll get it figured out. :-)

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 3 15:07:12 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 03 2017 09:50:52

    If I could actually get the messages from your system, I'd volunteer! (Mine's running 24/7 on a hosted service, so I expect little to no downtime.) [0m

    hoepfully we will have you up and going again soon.. it's a freak happening, I just don't know.. and it could be the stupidest thing.

    Will you delete the rep packet with the one message and poll to see if it will issue you a qwk packet, if it does maybe it will start working correctly again?!?

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to mark lewis on Mon Jul 3 15:10:02 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: mark lewis to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 03 2017 13:49:40

    for there to be PASV mode, the client should issue the PASV command and then perform the transaction... at least that's the way i see numerous ftp clients do it on my ftp server... i'm not aware of PASV being default and already active...

    I may be way off on this, but from what I read, thats what it does when it issues the PORT command, the client asks the server to assign a pasv port numbber, then goes from there.

    AFAIK, PASV should have been issued just before this STOR command...

    That would happen with the PORT command "from what I am reading" like I said, I may be wrong. but I believe thats what it's doing.

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Digital Man on Mon Jul 3 15:43:08 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Digital Man to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 03 2017 12:18:09

    No, the FTP PORT command is for active transfer mode (the server opens a connection back to the client). This is the opposite of PASV (passive) mode.

    Ok, so I did read that wrong, I'm completely oppisite of what it is doing.

    7/3 08:51:01 ftp 0045 !DATA ERROR -1 (110) connecting to client
    172.31.5.129 port 3585 on socket 49

    This indicates the FTP server is trying to open a connection back to the client (which is normal for ACTIVE FTP transfer mode) but failing. This is usually an indication of a problem on the client side (e.g. a firewall or NAT gateway allowing the incoming connection), but the cause could be on either side.

    So something possibly that Amazon is doing. I was beginning to wonder because I'm not having issues with other nodes.


    Testing just the "dir" command with FTP clients in both active and passive mode should help identify the problem.

    Did you catch that Deepthaw.

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to Deepthaw on Tue Jul 4 09:43:00 2017
    Deepthaw wrote to KK4QBN <=-

    ne, that would be nice, or if someone would like to
    volunteer (HINT HINT).

    If I could actually get the messages from your system, I'd volunteer! (Mine's running 24/7 on a hosted service, so I expect little to no downtime.)

    Once I'm setup, I'd be happy to hub, I have over 30Mbps upstream bandwidth
    ere.


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  • From Deepthaw@1:103/705 to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 3 16:40:26 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: KK4QBN to Digital Man on Mon Jul 03 2017 03:43 pm

    So something possibly that Amazon is doing. I was beginning to wonder because I'm not having issues with other nodes.


    Testing just the "dir" command with FTP clients in both active and passive mode should help identify the problem.

    Did you catch that Deepthaw.

    Yep - I poked around all that quite a bit, and it's all working again and I don't know even know what, if anything, I changed. I deleted everything and set it up back up again and it magically fixed it. That's a bit too close to "have you tried turning it off and back on" for my liking, but I'll take it.

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Tony Langdon on Mon Jul 3 21:14:04 2017
    Re: Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Tony Langdon to Deepthaw on Tue Jul 04 2017 09:43:00

    Once I'm setup, I'd be happy to hub, I have over 30Mbps upstream bandwidth ere.

    Yeah, you're more than welcome to. If you wanna take the setup packet and customize it to fit your setup we'll be good to go. just drop it in your kk4qbn.out directory when finished. and we'll distribute it and let all the new nodes and any who want to switch pull off you. I have to admit I had actually pulled the plug on it until about 7 or so people contacted me at one time. the main reason is because my system resources :)

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Deepthaw on Mon Jul 3 21:15:28 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Deepthaw to KK4QBN on Mon Jul 03 2017 16:40:26

    Yep - I poked around all that quite a bit, and it's all working again and I don't know even know what, if anything, I changed. I deleted everything and set it up back up again and it magically fixed it. That's a bit too close to "have you tried turning it off and back on" for my liking, but I'll take it. [0m


    hahaha yeah.. I understand completely.. it almost feels surreal.. because truthfully, yeah I might have tweaked a couple things. but nothing that has anything to do with the ftp setup, because it was all working before.. I guess we'll just leave it at that :)

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to KK4QBN on Tue Jul 4 15:15:00 2017
    KK4QBN wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    Yeah, you're more than welcome to. If you wanna take the setup packet
    and customize it to fit your setup we'll be good to go. just drop it in your kk4qbn.out directory when finished. and we'll distribute it and
    let all the new nodes and any who want to switch pull off you. I have
    to admit I had actually pulled the plug on it until about 7 or so
    people contacted me at one time. the main reason is because my system resources :)

    Sure. I would like to have a simple process for people to apply/request a feed, so I know to turn on access. It will be a day or 2, I'm booked solid for the rest of today (track training, followed by a meeting), then have an appoint first thing in the morning. Just got a quiet few minutes between engagements now.

    I have 100/40 with unlimited data (in practice, probably about 30/30 because of the tunnel), so bandwidth is a non issue, and the BBSs just run in the background. I am a QWK hub/QWK<--> FTN gate for a few nets as it is. Adding another net is a non issue. :)


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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to Tony Langdon on Tue Jul 4 08:39:04 2017
    Re: Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: Tony Langdon to KK4QBN on Tue Jul 04 2017 15:15:00

    Sure. I would like to have a simple process for people to apply/request a feed, so I know to turn on access. It will be a day or 2, I'm booked solid for the rest of today (track training, followed by a meeting), then have an appoint first thing in the morning. Just got a quiet few minutes between engagements now.

    Tony,

    In your newuser.js you will see where you can uncomment some lines to serve as a qwk hub.

    I do apologize in advance, I got you and the sysop of Deep Space 94 mixed up because he stated he would hub also if his feed were to actually start working.

    So we'll work this out somehow.. DIfferent hubs on 2 different continets will be fine and actually make the network stronger. If he still wants to hub. I'm sure he'll bring it up in the actual network. I think since it is flowing smoothly now I will back out of speaking of it much more here :)

    except advertisment of course.. Join the BBSLink Network!

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to KK4QBN on Tue Jul 4 11:16:08 2017

    On 2017 Jul 03 15:10:02, you wrote to me:

    for there to be PASV mode, the client should issue the PASV command
    and then perform the transaction... at least that's the way i see
    numerous ftp clients do it on my ftp server... i'm not aware of PASV
    being default and already active...

    I may be way off on this, but from what I read, thats what it does
    when it issues the PORT command, the client asks the server to assign
    a pasv port numbber, then goes from there.

    nope... PORT is active... PASV is issued by the client and the server follows...

    ----->8 snip 8<-----
    Active mode:

    1. Client opens up command channel from client port 2000(a) to server port 21(b).
    2. Client sends PORT 2001(a) to server and server acknowledges on command channel.
    3. Server opens up data channel from server port 20(b) to client port 2001(a).
    4. Client acknowledges on data channel.

    Passive mode:

    1. Client opens up command channel from client port 2000(a) to server port 21(b).
    2. Client sends PASV to server on command channel.
    3. Server sends back (on command channel) PORT 1234(a) after starting to listen on that port.
    4. Client opens up data channel from client 2001(a) to server port 1234(a).
    5. Server acknowledges on data channel.
    ----->8 snip 8<-----

    look at the differences in step two and three... this problem is on the client side confiruation... it needs to be told to use PASV mode for its connections... the server cannot do anything about this...


    the above chart swiped from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1699145/what-is-the-difference-between-active-and-passive-ftp

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to mark lewis on Tue Jul 4 14:30:42 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: mark lewis to KK4QBN on Tue Jul 04 2017 11:16:08

    nope... PORT is active... PASV is issued by the client and the server follows...

    No need to explain, I realize I had it reversed.. (thought wise) :-)

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  • From Tony Langdon@3:633/410 to KK4QBN on Wed Jul 5 08:21:00 2017
    KK4QBN wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

    In your newuser.js you will see where you can uncomment some lines to serve as a qwk hub.

    If I recall, all those lines do is offer the QWK networking options to new users, already got those. I've taken it to another level, giving me more fine grained control over who sees what. I might add a QWKnet area for all of my downlinks to keep them up to date. :)

    I do apologize in advance, I got you and the sysop of Deep Space 94
    mixed up because he stated he would hub also if his feed were to
    actually start working.

    Ahh, OK. :)

    So we'll work this out somehow.. DIfferent hubs on 2 different
    continets will be fine and actually make the network stronger. If he
    still wants to hub. I'm sure he'll bring it up in the actual network. I think since it is flowing smoothly now I will back out of speaking of
    it much more here :)

    except advertisment of course.. Join the BBSLink Network!

    Yes, well hopefully I'll get the hub setup today. :)


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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to KK4QBN on Wed Jul 5 08:00:50 2017

    On 2017 Jul 04 14:30:42, you wrote to me:

    nope... PORT is active... PASV is issued by the client and the server
    follows...

    No need to explain, I realize I had it reversed.. (thought wise) :-)

    not a problem... it helps others who are following along to also understand ;)

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  • From KK4QBN@1:103/705 to mark lewis on Wed Jul 5 11:53:26 2017
    Re: Socket error 60 when downloading QWK (BBSlink)
    By: mark lewis to KK4QBN on Wed Jul 05 2017 08:00:50

    nope... PORT is active... PASV is issued by the client and the
    server follows...

    No need to explain, I realize I had it reversed.. (thought wise) :-)

    not a problem... it helps others who are following along to also understand ;)

    Exactly thats why, when I have issues, I like to be sure to follow ut on the fix for that issue. so EVERYONE following the theread can be educated.

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