Re: AOL connectivity working?
Richard England <rengland-Zzfd2T3XD/[email protected]>
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Thank you, Joe. I'll give your suggestions a try. I guess I've just been lucky in the past. I've seen it take a few minutes to connect but recently I've been eventually getting a "network" difficutly error dialog and it would abort. --R Joe Greenseid wrote: >i see the same problem sometimes. the way that i've found to solve it is >to cancel and try to reconnect. when that happens, it's b/c that address >you listed seems dead (try telnetting to port 80 on that addr, it won't >respond). if you reconnect, you get another server in the rotation (i >think there are 8 systems that they round robin that respond to requests >to toc.oscar.aol.com). if you keep getting stuck and getting the broken >one (i've seen sometimes the dns roundrobining returns the same 1 first >each time for a long period, like it's stuck or something), try opening up >ayttm prefs, going to the AIM service thing, and just putting one of the >other IP addresses in, in place of toc.oscar.aol.com. the 205.x.x.x ones >usually work best when i've tried them. > --Joe > > >On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Richard England wrote: > > > >>Until a couple weeks ago this seemed to be working. The daughter is >>home from college so I haven't had a reason to try until today. All I >>am seeing is the Connecting "throbber" indicating 64.12.163.174:80 >> >>Anyone having any better luck? >> >>AYTTM 0.4.6-18 on RH9 >> >>-- >>--R >> >> > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on >Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, >one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology >Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com >_______________________________________________ >Ayttm-users mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ayttm-users > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed the changes on Linux.com, ITManagersJournal and NewsForge in the past few weeks? Now, one more big change to announce. We are now OSTG- Open Source Technology Group. Come see the changes on the new OSTG site. www.ostg.com