Re: Strange error
A lot of good questions, to which I don't have all of the answers.
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> >Today while running ppp to my internet server, I got the following
> >message:
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> >TRANS(SocketINETConnect) () can't connect: errno = 111
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> I'm running Debian's PPP package version 2.1.2b-1 and I've never seen
> that particular message.
>
> 111 is `Connection Refused' where I come from. Is there anything
> running in the background that might be trying to talk to the outside
> world? It could run out of cron, be permanently alive, or run from
> /etc/ppp/ip-up; or something I haven't thought of.
I can't think of anything. Especially anything different from
the last time.
>
> Are you using Smail, sendmail, neither, or something else?
I don't have mail configured right now. I'm doing mail from a Windows
program and only use the Linux-ppp connection for ftp and telnet. I had
a ftp going at the time and maybe a telnet session, but that's about
all. I don't even have news configured.
>
> Anything relevant in any of the files in /var/log?
Good question, I didn't think to look.
>
> Are you certain it came from your machine rather than the machine you
> are connected to?
I was running X and had popped up an xterm on my local machine from my local
machine. I then simply did a vi on a local file. No network involve as
far as I could tell. The errors appeared for a while then my vi session
started. When I quit vi, I got a few more and then dropped back to the
shell prompt.
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> ttfn/rjk
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>
Thanks for the help. I'll poke around a bit more and see what I can
find.
Jim.
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