Idle Telnet Timeouts

On Apr 30, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Greg Folkert wrote:

> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 15:06 -0500, ArcticFox wrote:
>> Not sure if this is the right list to ask this on, too many to choose
>> from and none of the others looked like what I wanted. Anyway; here's
>> the deal, I'm running a TinyMUSH world on my system. The problem that
>> I'm having is that when a player is idle for any length of time they
>> get disconnected with a "Network error: POSIX error: Operation timed
>> out" as far as I can tell, this shouldn't be happening. Neither my ISP
>> nor the MUSH software is disconnecting them. In fact the MUSH has an
>> idle timeout in it to d/c players that have been idle for too long,
>> this isn't activating however.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas on how I can stop this?
>
> Any kind of debugging logs? From TinyMUSH or from
> syslog/messages/whatever? If not crank up the logging on TinyMUSH.
>
> Are you running DSL using PPPoE?
>
> Any kind of DHCP from your ISP? If your DHCP lease length is short
> enough your ISP might inadvertently be disconnecting them during a
> renew
> of you DHCP IP Address.
>
> Are you using port forwarding from any device (a router) to you
> machine?
> Is there a DHCP server running on it causing a blip on your NIC?
>
> IOW, unless you can see some diagnostics from you processes or machines
> system logs relating to it... its hard to know.
> --
> greg,
>
> Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's
> Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a
> competitive
> product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at
> the playfield. -- Thane Walkup
>

The only message in my log for the mush is 'Remote close or net failure'

I'm connected through cable.

My ISP uses DHCP but the lease length is somewhere between a week to a
month.

My router is using port forwarding, the router is also providing the
DHCP services for the local network though the server running the mush
software is set with a static IP.

I'll look and see if there's a way I can increase the logging from
TinyMUSH.

--

On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 01:16 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> ArcticFox wrote in Article <48e57010d8b5f26fc52860188570261c@insightbb.com>
> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:
>
> > Not sure if this is the right list to ask this on, too many to choose
> > from and none of the others looked like what I wanted. Anyway; here's
> > the deal, I'm running a TinyMUSH world on my system. The problem that
> > I'm having is that when a player is idle for any length of time they
> > get disconnected with a "Network error: POSIX error: Operation timed
> > out" as far as I can tell, this shouldn't be happening. Neither my ISP
> > nor the MUSH software is disconnecting them. In fact the MUSH has an
> > idle timeout in it to d/c players that have been idle for too long,
> > this isn't activating however.
> >
> > Anyone have any ideas on how I can stop this?
>
> Sounds like some router between your MUSH and your players is timing out
> connections prematurely. Either find and reconfigure the router, or make
> sure people use TCP keepalives with relatively short intervals to keep
> connections from going stale.

That was exactly the place I was going. I just wanted to see what kind
of errors were being spewed. It could be some settings could be changed
in MUSH. I know that many(some?) MUDs can be tweaked to change these
things.
--
greg,

Novell's Directory Services is a competitive product to Microsoft's
Active Directory in much the same way that the Saturn V is a competitive
product to those dinky little model rockets that kids light off down at
the playfield. -- Thane Walkup