mark@cbosgd.UUCP (Mark Horton) (05/10/86)
After being muzzled for 6 weeks, we now have 4 of 5 dialers working and things seem to be more-or-less back to normal on cbosgd. In case you're wondering about the fix, so are we. Several Penrils and two AT&T 2224's were unable to dial out properly at 1200 baud (characters they transmitted at 1200 baud were run together, and nulls transmitted caused immediate hangup) and the 2224's dialing out at 2400 baud thought everything was busy. I plugged a USRobotics Courier into the same lines and it worked happily at 1200 and 2400 baud. Then, when the telco person was watching, the Penril lines suddenly started working again, and have been working since. The telco person suggests that they may have done something at the central office, perhaps replacing some fuses that were marginal. The fifth dialer always says "NO DIAL TONE", probably a broken or loose wire. Since everything is rack mounted with 50 pin connectors, this will be a while to track down. But it's no big deal. We've still been having trouble with seismo - the line drops after a few minutes, the same symptoms Rick describes with ihnp4. However, after two solid days of retrying in a shell loop: while true do /usr/lib/uucp/uucico -r1 -sseismo sleep 30 done the queue on both ends was cleared out. Things with seismo appear OK again from here. Mark