Apropos down time, I will be moving house towards the end of the month so GORVAX might be down for a day or two.
On the plus side, the new place has a 47U rack and twice the bandwidth - so I'll be able to bring the AlphaServer 4100 that I have lying around online.
Sampsa
PS: I have just acquired a VAXstation 90A - are these any good?
On 12 Aug 2009, at 04:00, Bob Armstrong wrote:
I've noticed that lots of the Multinet connections LEGATO is serving
appear to be down. Not all of them, but lots.
PDXVAX - down (I guess Zane still hasn't been able to unpack it).
PETEY - down (Is Dan back from Oz?)
DUSTY - up (good!)
SELENE - down
STUPI - down (Peter, where are you???)
ZARQON - down (Chrissie said it's too hot to run it)
MISER - down
GORVAX - up
Looks like we can still talk to the Johnny Bridge world via GORVAX, but
only areas 1 and 11 appear to be up.
Bob
Chrissie Caulfield wrote:
Bob Armstrong wrote:
I've noticed that lots of the Multinet connections LEGATO is serving
appear to be down. Not all of them, but lots.
PDXVAX - down (I guess Zane still hasn't been able to unpack it).
PETEY - down (Is Dan back from Oz?)
DUSTY - up (good!)
SELENE - down
STUPI - down (Peter, where are you???)
ZARQON - down (Chrissie said it's too hot to run it)
My Multinet connection should be run through ROOSTA in summer. The
system is up but I can't see any connections to it any more. It's the
same IP address so it should be transparent to the other end.
Just to check, my IP address is 86.10.38.192, maybe it changed again
recently and I didn't notice.
I used to have a Multinet connection to another node too, but I forget
which now.
Oops!
I just noticed that my multinet licence had expired, A new one is in the e-post so it should be back up in the next few hours I hope.
Sorry
Chrissie
Bob Armstrong wrote:
I've noticed that lots of the Multinet connections LEGATO is serving
appear to be down. Not all of them, but lots.
PDXVAX - down (I guess Zane still hasn't been able to unpack it).
PETEY - down (Is Dan back from Oz?)
DUSTY - up (good!)
SELENE - down
STUPI - down (Peter, where are you???)
ZARQON - down (Chrissie said it's too hot to run it)
My Multinet connection should be run through ROOSTA in summer. The
system is up but I can't see any connections to it any more. It's the
same IP address so it should be transparent to the other end.
Just to check, my IP address is 86.10.38.192, maybe it changed again
recently and I didn't notice.
I used to have a Multinet connection to another node too, but I forget
which now.
--
Chrissie
I'm still down. The servers are in their racks, but the cables aren't found/unpacked. Plus the weather has been too hot part of the time to run them (record breaking heat wave). I actually just came in from working out there, and have things looking a lot better, while I didn't touch the computers, I did free up some room in front of them.
If I can find the time, I think one of my projects for this winter will be walling in, and insulating an area that can be kept cool next summer. Otherwise I'll have a hard time keeping my systems up in the summer.
Zane
At 8:00 PM -0700 8/11/09, Bob Armstrong wrote:
I've noticed that lots of the Multinet connections LEGATO is serving
appear to be down. Not all of them, but lots.
PDXVAX - down (I guess Zane still hasn't been able to unpack it).
PETEY - down (Is Dan back from Oz?)
DUSTY - up (good!)
SELENE - down
STUPI - down (Peter, where are you???)
ZARQON - down (Chrissie said it's too hot to run it)
MISER - down
GORVAX - up
Looks like we can still talk to the Johnny Bridge world via GORVAX, but
only areas 1 and 11 appear to be up.
Bob
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| Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator |
| healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast |
| MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector |
+----------------------------------+----------------------------+
| Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, |
| PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. |
| http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 12-AUG-2009 05:46:39.71 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user SYSTEM on STUPI
MultiNet Server: ns: restarted
%%%%%%%%%%% OPCOM 12-AUG-2009 05:47:03.79 %%%%%%%%%%%
Message from user DECNET on STUPI
DECnet event 4.10, circuit up
I've noticed that lots of the Multinet connections LEGATO is serving
appear to be down. Not all of them, but lots.
STUPI - down (Peter, where are you???)
I dunno, it's just echoes "BELL" on the console. Attempting remote
power cyckle:
KA630-A.V1.3
Performing normal system tests.
KA630-A.V1.3
Performing normal system tests.
7..6..5..4..3..
Tests completed.
Loading system software.
2..1..0..
VAX/VMS Version V5.4 Major version id = 1 Minor version id = 0
PLEASE ENTER DATE AND TIME (DD-MMM-YYYY HH:MM) 12-AUG-2009 05:16
Let's se what it does.. It usally takes like 45 minutes for it to
boot.. -:)
--Peter
I've noticed that lots of the Multinet connections LEGATO is serving
appear to be down. Not all of them, but lots.
PDXVAX - down (I guess Zane still hasn't been able to unpack it).
PETEY - down (Is Dan back from Oz?)
DUSTY - up (good!)
SELENE - down
STUPI - down (Peter, where are you???)
ZARQON - down (Chrissie said it's too hot to run it)
MISER - down
GORVAX - up
Looks like we can still talk to the Johnny Bridge world via GORVAX, but
only areas 1 and 11 appear to be up.
Bob
Hi,
Sorry for the long delay!
There appeared a corruption problem with the TSM freeware kits.
It took me some time to find working kits as I don't have all of them online. Now the functional kit is on my Alpha - thanks to my friend and hobbyist Teijo.
The kits you need for a full installation (for Alpha) with ECO's are:
TSM021.DCX_AXPEXE
TSMECO.ZIP
Enjoy!
Regards,
Kari
Kari Uusim ki wrote:
Hi,
sorry for the long delay. My work disturbes occasionally my hobbies. :)
Now the TSM kits (Alpha and VAX) are extracted from the VMS Freeware V5.0.
You can fetch them from my Alpha:
wega.dechobbyist.net
using anonymous ftp.
Kari
Sampsa Laine wrote:
If you could extract it, I would be very grateful, I'm kinda low on space on CHIMPY at the moment.
Can't wait to get to my new place, will be able to bring both the Alphaserver 4100 and rx2600 online.
Sampsa
On 27 May 2009, at 21:25, Kari Uusim ki wrote:
The TOC of the Freeware v5 disks is here:
http://h71000.www7.hp.com/openvms/freeware/v5_00freeware_abstract.txt
and the download pointer is here:
ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/openvms//FREEWARE50.ZIP
Yes, I know, it is the whole disk image.
If you aren't in a hurry, I could extract the TSM stuff from my disk and put it on my Alpha for download.
Kari
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Got a pointer for this? I did a quick Google but there was nothing immediately useful (i.e. kits / binaries) in the results.
Sampsa
On 27 May 2009, at 20:44, Kari Uusim ki wrote:
The command "language" is almost same on all DECservers. The newer ones have TCP/IP related commands, which aren't found on older ones.
The help is quite good indeed.
If you are interested, the TSM (Terminal Server Manager) software (for VMS) is freeware. You can use it to configure all your DECservers and retain their configurations on a centralized server.
Chrissie Caulfield wrote:
Sampsa Laine wrote:
Thanks Chrissie, already seen this, unfortunately it does not contain
anything like a command reference that would help me set up the ports
etc. Anyone have something like this? How close are the commands of say
a DECserver 100 to a 200?
It's very similar to a DECserver 100. Most of the differences are to do
with modem control.
I seem to remember it has quite good help too.
.
.
Yeah, I realise I need to get mail in to the system as well, but this seems fairly trivial using those routines in the HELP section or even (god forbid) some kind of SSH / SFTP / DCL script monstrosity. What I was worried about was getting the FIDO% addressing working and it does, like a dream actually.
Basically, I'll have a UNIX box doing the heavy lifting (i.e. mailer, bundling of messages etc) and the VMS box gets fed very straight forward messages in, and pumps very straight forward messages out . In fact I have something that works quite well already for the VMS -> Fido bit, now reading up on how to get the mail the other way.
As for why? Pure amusement value, getting one fairly obscure network (HECnet) connected to another (Fidonet) will be a nice little challenge and great fun if we get it to work.
Sampsa
On 2 Jul 2009, at 04:09, Bob Armstrong wrote:
Erik Soderholm) provided me with source code that does pretty much
exactly what I want (well listens to a <protname>% thing from mail and
does something with it).
Glad to hear you got what you need. Maybe I shouldn't mention it right
now, but this is only half the job. This part will handle the outgoing
(MAIL-11 -> FIDOnet) part, but you'll also need to write another program
that runs as a detached system process ("daemon" to you Un*x guys) that
listens for incoming FIDOnet mail and then dumps it into MAIL-11 (presumably
using the MAIL$ API routines). It's not really hard, but it's another piece
that you'll need.
What (or rather who) is still on FIDOnet these days?
Bob
